Human Rights Today: A United Nations Priority is part of the series, UN Briefing Papers, which aims to provide a resource to key issues that are priority areas of concern for the United Nations. The published version of this edition outlines the concrete steps that are being taken by the United Nations at the international and national levels to strengthen its human rights programmes and work more effectively with its partners in government and civil society to assure rights for all. In addition to summarizing United Nations work in the field, the publication provides a blueprint of the work of the various intergovernmental human rights bodies. It also features annexes, including a chronology of UN human rights landmarks since 1945, an outline of key human rights conventions and a bibliography of related publications and other resources available to the general public.
The text that follows is a sampling of what can be found in the publication, including chapters on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, on strengthening the UN human rights programme and on human rights and conflict . This electronic version also provides links to the Websites of relevant substantive offices in the UN system as well as to the full texts of the international human rights treaties and declarations that are available on the Internet.
UN Briefing Papers/Human Rights Today: A United Nations Priority
1998, 79 pp., ISBN: 92-1-100797-6, Sales No. E.98.I.22
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