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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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Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Addendum : Report by the Special Rapporteur on his mission to Indonesia and East Timor from 3 to 13 July 1994

1 September 2014 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Mission Reports

Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Addendum : Report by the Special Rapporteur on his mission to Peru from 24 May to 2 June 1993

29 August 2014 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Mission Reports

Promotion and Protection of Human Rights: Human Rights Defenders: Report: Addendum / Submitted by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Human Rights Defenders, Pursuant to Commission on Human Rights Resolution 2000/61

20 February 2003 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Thematic Reports

Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions: Report of the Special Rapporteu Submitted Pursuant to Commission on Human Rights Resolution 2002/36

13 January 2003 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Thematic Reports

Situation of Human Rights Defenders: Mission to Guatemala, 26 May-1 June 2002

6 December 2002 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Mission Reports

Report on human rights defenders: Addendum - Mission to Colombia (23-31 October 2001)

28 March 2002 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Mission Reports

Report on the human rights situation in Burundi / submitted by the Special Rapporteur, Marie-Thérèse A. Keita Bocoum, in accordance with Commission resolution 2001/21

7 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

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

Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions: Report of the Special Rapporteur, submitted pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 2001/45

9 January 2002 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Thematic Reports

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