Reporters sans frontières -

United Nations UN General Assembly asked to send strong signal to Human Rights Council
5.11.2007 - Reporters Without Borders appealed for vigilance by United Nations member states as the UN General Assembly was poised today to endorse a reform package adopted by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council.

2007

7.09.2007 / Call to keep special country investigator system and the right to criticise religion

21.06.2007 / One year after its creation, Human Rights Council achieves disturbingly little

14.05.2007 / The UN and WHO deny accreditation to Taiwan journalists

30.03.2007 / Disappointing results from Human Rights Council’s fourth session, especially decision to ignore Iran and Uzbekistan

2006

24.12.2006 / UN Security Council passes a resolution on journalists’ protection

12.08.2006 / Another sign of failure for Human Rights Council in resolution on Lebanon

22.06.2006 / UN urged to respond to Canada’s condemnation of Said Mortazavi’s presence in Geneva

19.06.2006 / Reporters Without Borders calls on new Human Rights Council to quickly prove its good will

18.05.2006 / UN refuses to accredit Taiwanese journalists to cover World Health Organisation meeting

10.05.2006 / Some of the world’s most repressive countries recycled into new Human Rights Council

5.05.2006 / Concern about candidates for new Human Rights Council as election day approaches

8.03.2006 / Proposed Human Rights Council - Reporters Without Borders fears a reform that stops half-way

2005

17.11.2005 / Robert Ménard prevented from attending the UN Internet summit, Reporters Without Borders activists stuck a giant poster inside the building hosting the WSIS

10.11.2005 / Robert Ménard banned from going to Tunisia for information society summit

14.03.2005 / UN human rights commission named as world’s biggest prison for the press

4.02.2005 / Reporters Without Borders again denounces absurdity of China, Cuba and Zimbabwe judging world rights violations

2004

22.04.2004 / Human Rights on the rocks at the UN

15.03.2004 / 60th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights: the farce continues

2003

10.12.2003 / Radio Non Grata forced off the air

9.12.2003 / Reporters Without Borders launches pirate radio to protest exclusion from Summit

2.12.2003 / Reporters Without Borders says its voice will be heard despite exclusion from world information summit

23.09.2003 / WSIS media and human rights caucuses protest exclusion of Reporters Without Borders

15.09.2003 / World Summit on the Information Society: UN human rights farce continues

21.08.2003 / UN sub-commission puts human rights on back burner

24.07.2003 / UN Commission on Human rights looses all credibility: Wheeling and dealing, incompetence and "non-action". Reporters Without Borders calls for drastic overhaul of how the commission work

24.07.2003 / Reporters Without Borders suspended for one year from UN commission on human rights

30.05.2003 / UN Human Rights chief opposes exclusion of Reporters Without Borders

17.03.2003 / Reporters Without Borders stages protest at meeting of Human Rights Commission

20.01.2003 / Libya’s election to head the UN Human Rights Commission "a disgrace"

2002

3.07.2002 / The 2005 World Summit on the Information Society in... Tunis: Someone’s got to be joking !

16.04.2002 / RSF speaks to the Human Rights Commission in Geneva

© Reporters Without Borders - 47, rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris - France

| About us | Contact us | Links | RSS | Rsfblog | Journalists Memorial |