rights

UN expert on judiciary set to visit Saudi Arabia later this month

4 October 2002
A United Nations human rights expert is set to visit Saudi Arabia later this month, the first time an authority from the Geneva-based UN Commission on Human Rights has been invited by the government for an official mission.
Shashi Tharoor

To fight terrorism, ignorance must be tackled, UN communications official says

4 October 2002
In order to eradicate the roots of terrorism and put a halt to the practice, efforts must be made to counter ignorance about other cultures, Shashi Tharoor, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, said today.