Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and follow-up to the World Conference on Human Rights

First annual report of the present UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sergio Vieira de Mello, to the Commission on Human Rights; sets out some of the urgent protection challenges facing the Commission and the international community; calls for strengthened action to prevent gross violations of human rights, enhance protection and integrate human rights in the activities of the UN System; refers to efforts under way to reform and modernize the human rights programme.

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