Message-ID: <199703240035.JAA10477@inetnif.niftyserve.or.jp> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:33:00 +0900 From: FORWARDED <mailto:QWA01214@NIFTYSERVE.OR.JP> Subject: WWW.UNHCHR.CH To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
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WWW.UNHCHR.CH - The High Commissioner for Human Rights' new website
contains the following information:
1) coverage of the 53rd Commission on Human Rights to include:
- agenda
- order of the day, speaker's list and statements of dignitaries
- documents of the commission (excluding NGO series and letters
from the Governments,etc.)
- press releases in English and French
2) 'What's New':
- news items
- calendar of meetings
- newly downloaded documents
3) 'Human Rights Program':
a) Conventional Mechanisms:
- access to the Treaty Body Database providing for example:
information on state reporting, status of ratification, and the full
text of treaty body documentation (state reports, concluding
observations beginning with most recent and working backwards to 1993)
- subject search function within the Treaty Body Database
(consult 'helpful hints' for instructions on use)
- tentative schedule and provisional agendas for treaty
bodies
b) Extra-Conventional Mechansisms:
- resolutions and reports by country or thematic mechanisms,
including those of the Special Rapporteurs
- list of special rapporteurs, their missions and mission
reports
c) other activities of the centre to include:
- advisory services and technical co-operation
- field operations
- complaints procedures
- voluntary or trust funds
- human rights issues
3) Human Rights Documents:
all reports and resolutions listed chronologically beginning with most
recent and dating back to 1994.
4) In progress:
- development of "human rights issues" and field operations
- website search function
- French and Spanish versions
Ben Schonveld
Projects Manager
OMCT-SOS-Torture
Fax 4122 733 1051
Ph 4122 733 3140
OMCT is: l'Organisation Mondiale contre la Torture
The World Organisation Against Torture