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Fight against terrorism could restrict right to free expression, UN expert warns

1 April 2004
The legitimate efforts of many countries to prevent terrorism might be restricting the basic human right to information, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of expression told the UN Commission on Human Rights today.

UN experts stress rights to sexual and reproductive health and free schooling

31 March 2004
Countries worldwide should not shrink from confronting sensitive issues of sexual and reproductive health, and all nations should provide free public primary schooling, according to two United Nations human rights reports.

Men must be mobilized in struggle for gender equality, UN commission agrees

16 March 2004
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women has wrapped up its annual session with broad agreement on the need to involve men in the struggle for gender equality.

Memory of Vieira de Mello pervades start of UN Commission on Human Rights

15 March 2004
Seven months after he was killed by a terrorist bomb in Baghdad, the memory of the late United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sergio Vieira de Mello, hovered over today's opening of the 60th annual session of the UN's top human rights body in Geneva.