International bodies

Even in his worst nightmares former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan could hardly have dreamed when he called for the…

The oral statement by WPF and IHEU was one of only two during the debate on the rights of the…

IHEU member organization Libre Penséé has issued a statement on the Berlin Declaration, which was signed on 25 March 2007…

The report (below) on the fourth session of the Human Rights Council that ended on 30 March concentrates on two…

The fourth session of the new Human Rights Council was held in Geneva from 12 to 30 March 2007, but…

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…