OMCT Activities during the 57th Session of the Commission on Human Rights

57th Session of the Commission on Human Rights

OMCT's parallel events

22 March 2001

Colombia: human rights and the international community

26 March 2001

The current situation in the Occupied Territories and the related human rights violations

30 March 2001

Tunisia and human rights defenders

2 April 2001

Turkey, repression against political prisoners and human rights defenders

3 April 2001

Prevention of torture: The value of international and national efforts, including the Draft Optional Protocol to the Torture Convention

6 April 2001

Crimes against women committed in the name of "honour"

9 April 2001

The need for a new international mechanism to address violence against children

Oral interventions

Item 8:

Question of the violation of human rights in the occupied Arab territories, including Palestine

Item 9:

Question of the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in any part of the world

Item 10:

Economic, social and cultural rights

Item 11:

Civil and political rights, including the question of torture and detention

Item 12:

Integration of the human rights of women and the gender perspective: violence against women

Item 13:

Rights of the child

Press Releases

Panel discussion on violence against children (6 April 2001)

Crimes against women committed in the name of "honour": a briefing during the CHR (5 April 2001)

Human Rights Defenders in Tunisia: Briefing during the Commission (28 March 2001)

Briefingsession on the current situation in the Occupied Territories and the relatedhuman rights violations (23 March 2001)

OMCTdeplores the departure of Ms Mary Robinson, the High Commissioner for HumanRights (20 March 2001)