International bodies

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams, who led a UN Human Rights Council mission to Darfur but whose team was…

On Wednesday, February 28, 2007 in New York, a panel of bioethicists, physicians and activists will discuss “Health and Empowerment:…

The World Health Organisation now estimates that some 130 million women and girls, mainly in Africa, have been subjected to…

A coalition of leading human rights groups from around the world have called on UN High Commissioner for Human Rights…

The UN Human Rights Council held a special session on 12 December 2006 to discuss the human rights crisis in…

Human Rights Day is observed by the international community every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day in 1948…

Report on the chaotic second session of the new Human Rights Council In 2005, the UN Commission for Human Rights…

Matt Cherry, secretary of the United Nations Non-Government Organizations (NGO) Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Executive Director…

In a statement to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, IHEU has condemned attempts to stifle legitimate criticism of…

One of the more thankless tasks that the old UN Human Rights Commission set its experts was to report on…

According to Sima Samar, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, the people there…