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The present report, submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to Assembly resolution 48/141, highlights some of the main achievements of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human...

This is the official report of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its forty-eighth and forty-ninth sessions during the period of 30 April to 18 May 2012 and 12 to 30 November...

Independent legal professionals play a fundamental role in the administration of justice and the protection of human rights. Judges, prosecutors and lawyers need to have access to information on the...

The Human Rights Committee started its work under the Optional Protocol at its second session in 1977. From then until its eighty-fourth session in 2005, 1414 communications relating to alleged...

The worldwide eradication of the practice of torture was one of the major challenges of the United Nations only a few years after it was created. To ensure adequate protection for all persons against...

This is the official Record of the Report of the Committee against Torture on the Thirty-first Session (10-21 November 2003), Thirty-second Session (3-21 May 2004).

This is the official Record of the Report of the Committee against Torture on the Thirty-third Session (16-26 November 2004); Thirty-fourth Session (2-20 May 2005).

Maximizing the Legacy of Hybrid Courts explores how hybrid courts can receive the mandates and the political support required to be more effective in building capacity and bestowing an enduring legacy...