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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 of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in East Timor

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

Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances Addendum Report on the visit to Sri Lanka by a member of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (25-29 October 1999)

21 December 1999 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Mission Reports

Situation of human rights in Haiti

28 April 1999 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Situation of human rights in Cambodia

28 April 1999 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Situation of human rights in Rwanda.

23 April 1999 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

The situation of human rights in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), the Republic of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

23 April 1999 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Situation of human rights in Kosovo.

13 April 1999 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

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

22 April 1998 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

The elimination of violence against women.

17 April 1998 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Question of the human rights of all persons subjected to any form of detention or imprisonment :status of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: Report of the Secretary-General

20 January 1998 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Legislative History / Travaux Préparatoires

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