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UN Commission on Human Rights

Established by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the Commission on Human Rights was slated to be abolished on 16 June 2006 with the conclusion of its sixty-second session and pursuant to General Assembly resolution A/RES/60/251 establishing the Human Rights Council. The Commission on Human Rights for decades was considered to be the central architect of the work of the United Nations in the field of human rights. Delegates from its 53 member States, together with those of observer States and non-governmental organizations, met in March/April of each year in regular sessions in Geneva, though special sessions were sometimes held at other times to deal with urgent and acute human rights situations. It was assisted in this work by the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, a number of working groups and a network of individual experts, representatives and special rapporteurs mandated to report to it on specific issues or countries. At its regular sessions, the Commission adopted resolutions, decisions and statements on matters of relevance to individuals in all regions and circumstances.  Website: www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr
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Report on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan

6 March 2002 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Report on the human rights situation in Colombia

28 February 2002 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Report on the human rights situation in the Republic of Equatorial Guinea: pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 2001/22

24 January 2002 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Situation of human rights in Somalia : report of the Independent Expert, Ghanim Alnajjar, submitted in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 2001/81

14 January 2002 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Situation of human rights in parts of south-eastern Europe

8 January 2002 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Situation of human rights in Cambodia : report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Human Rights in Cambodia, Peter Leuprecht, submitted in accordance with resolution 2001/82

28 December 2001 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Situation of human rights in Cambodia : report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Human Rights in Cambodia, Thomas Hammarberg, submitted in accordance with resolution 1999/76

13 January 2000 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Situation of human rights in the former Yugoslavia, situation of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

28 December 1999 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Report on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (former Zaire) / submitted by the Special Rapporteur, Roberto Garreton, in accordance with Commission resolution 1997/58

30 January 1998 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Final report on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan / submitted by Choong-Hyun Paik, Special Rapporteur, in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 1996/75

20 February 1997 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

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