rights

Louise Arbour

Time for new UN rights body is now as status quo cannot continue, says top official

22 April 2005
Faced with major deficiencies, over-politicization and only selective reviews of countries' abuses, the United Nations Human Rights Commission wrapped up its annual session today with a ringing call for its replacement by a leaner, meaner body, as put forward in Secretary-General Kofi Annan's reform proposals.

UN rights commission adopts resolutions on cultural rights, racism

15 April 2005
With one week left in its sixty-first session, the United Nations top human rights body has approved a host of resolutions aimed at promoting and protecting economic, social and cultural rights, and denouncing all forms of racism.
Kofi Annan

Without reform of human rights body, UN credibility at stake, Annan says

7 April 2005
Speaking on the eleventh anniversary of the start of the Rwanda genocide and addressing the very human rights body he wants to replace, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today warned Member States that without reform of the United Nations human rights machinery, the credibility of the world body itself is at stake.