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- AUGUST 19, 2002United NationsDEATH PENALTY
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson said China needed to rely on political reform rather than repression to deal with growing social unrest
- AUGUST 1, 2002United NationsDEATH PENALTY
United Nations human rights chief Mary Robinson urged...
United Nations human rights chief Mary Robinson urged the United States to lift the death sentences on two men in Texas who were under 18 when they committed murder
- JULY 30, 2002United NationsDEATH PENALTY
UN Human Rights Committee concludes seventy-fifth session...
UN Human Rights Committee concludes seventy-fifth session and adopting final conclusions and recommendations, among positive developments in the third periodic report of Yemen, the Committee noted some human rights initiatives undertaken by the State part
- JULY 24, 2002United NationsDEATH PENALTY
A senior United Nations official from Brazil has been...
A senior United Nations official from Brazil has been appointed the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- MAY 10, 2002United NationsDEATH PENALTY
Concluding its special session on children, the General...
Concluding its special session on children, the General Assembly adopted the final outcome document -- "A World Fit for Children" -- which reaffirms the commitment of governments to complete the unfinished agenda of the 1990 World Summit for Children
- APRIL 17, 2002United NationsDEATH PENALTY
By a majority of 40 of its 53 members the United Nations...
By a majority of 40 of its 53 members the United Nations Human Rights Commission approved a Resolution presented by Muslim countries condemning Israeli's intervention in the Palestinian Territories
- MARCH 18, 2002United NationsDEATH PENALTY
The Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant...
The Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which aims at the abolition of the death penalty, was adopted by the General Assembly on 15 December 1989 and entered into force on 11 July 1991
- MARCH 18, 2002United NationsDEATH PENALTY
The Commission on Human Rights will hold its fifty-eighth...
The Commission on Human Rights will hold its fifty-eighth session at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 18 March to 26 April 2002
- MARCH 15, 2002United NationsDEATH PENALTY
Selectivity and double standards must not take precedence...
Selectivity and double standards must not take precedence over human rights standards, Amnesty International warned as the UN Commission on Human Rights opened its 58th session
- JANUARY 14, 2002United NationsDEATH PENALTY
United Nations officials say a special court being...
United Nations officials say a special court being set up in Sierra Leone to try people accused of war crimes during the decade-long civil war will be able to give out jail terms but not death sentences