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UN rights body calls for immediate release of Lebanese detainees in Israel

16 April 2003
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights today called on Israel to release immediately Lebanese detainees it was holding, at the same time rejecting a draft resolution calling on the Russian Federation to urgently take all necessary steps to stop human rights violations.
Sergio Vieira de Mello

AIDS, hunger, terror threaten world security, top UN human rights body told

17 March 2003
World security is threatened not only by the crises currently dominating the headlines but by AIDS, hunger and the "dreams of obscure vengeance" from political terrorists "whose only achievements are the sudden screams of innocent people," the top United Nations human rights official said today.

Top UN human rights body set to open 2003 session in Geneva

13 March 2003
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights is set to open its annual six-week session in Geneva, which, for the first time in the panel's near 60-year history, will include a High-Level segment where top government officials will debate key human rights concerns.

UN women’s commission meets on violence, trafficking, access to media

3 March 2003
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women opened its annual session today at UN Headquarters in New York, focusing on women’s access to the media and the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls.

By secret ballot, Libya elected chair of UN human rights commission

20 January 2003
Libya was elected today by secret ballot to head the top United Nations human rights panel - a break from nearly 50 years of tradition in which chairpersons are elected by acclamation.