Louise Arbour
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Human Rights Day

• Background
• Objectives for the Day
• More than 50 ideas for commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

International Human Rights Day, 10 December 2004

• Statement by the President of the General Assembly in the plenary
• Message from the United Nations Secretary-General
• Statement by the United Nations Deputy-Secretary-General to the General Assembly
• Message from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Message from the Independent Experts of the Commission on Human Rights
• United Nations General Assembly
• Human Rights Education Messages

Activities:

• Media
  
  • Joint OHCHR/UNESCO Press Release, 16 November 2004 [French]
  • BBC's HARDtalk Interview with High Commissioner Arbour
  • News Conference by High Commissioner Arbour, Geneva, 9 December 2004
  • NGO Press Conference on Human Rights Learning, New York, 10 December 2004

• United Nations Headquarters, New York

• In the Field
  
• Afghanistan
• Asia-Pacific Regional Office
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Cambodia
• Cameroon (in french)
• Colombia
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Democratic Republic of the Congo (in french)
• Eritrea-Ethiopia
• MONUC
• Nepal
• Occupied Palestinian Territories
• Serbia and Montenegro
• Tajikistan
• Zimbabwe

• By National Human Rights Institutions

• UN System
  
• World Health Organization

United Nations Postal Administration Stamp Series - Human Rights Education Decade (1995-2004)

• Statement of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Stamp Series (visuals)

Past Activities