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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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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 of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Addendum - Mission to Kyrgyzstan (30 July-4 August 2001)

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

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression

23 February 2000 | Publisher: UN Commission on Human Rights | Document type: Thematic Reports

Report on the human rights situation in the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, pursuant to Commission resolution 1999/19

27 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

Situation of human rights in Cambodia

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

Promotion of the right to democracy.

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

Situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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

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