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Human Rights Council inaugural session

Annan inaugurates UN’s strengthened Human Rights Council with appeal for ‘new era’

19 June 2006
The new United Nations Human Rights Council held its inaugural session today, with Secretary-General Kofi Annan calling for “a clean break from the past” and a “new era” as the enhanced body seeks to give teeth to the protection of rights for all, an issue that often seemed to elude its much-criticized predecessor.

With UN rights council’s inauguration, experts cite Myanmar’s detained rights leader

19 June 2006
As the new, strengthened Human Rights Council held its inaugural session, two United Nations experts stressed that today also marks the birthday of one of the world’s most acclaimed rights defenders, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and democracy leader who continues under house arrest in Myanmar.