Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 25 July 2005.

I invite Ms. Arbour to take a seat at the Council table.

The President (spoke in French) I thank Ms. Arbour for her comprehensive briefing.

Ms. Arbour The urgent need to stop the violence in Darfur is widely acknowledged.

Welcome the opening address of Ms. Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

I now give the floor to Ms. Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The report of the Commission was introduced by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour.

The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, addressed the Sub Commission at its 1st meeting, on 25 July 2005.

At the 14th meeting, on 27 April 2005, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Louise Arbour, addressed the Committee.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, addressed the Sub Commission at its 1st meeting, on 25 July 2005.

At the 63rd meeting, on 22 April 2005, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Louise Arbour, made concluding remarks.

This is the first annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, to the Commission on Human Rights.

Ms. Arbour (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) said that the additional resources would be geared to advancement of the Plan of Action.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Louise Arbour, as well as the observers for the Holy See and Poland made statements.

This was particularly highlighted on the occasion of the visit to Côte d'Ivoire of Mrs Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Ms. Arbour (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) said that political and budgetary support was the clearest kind of cooperation that Member States could provide OHCHR.

At the 12th meeting, on 18 March 2005, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Louise Arbour, introduced her report (E CN.4 2005 12).

The Workshop was addressed at its opening by the His Excellency Mr. Tang Jiaxuan, State Councillor, and by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour.

At the 1st meeting, on 17 January 2005, and at the 2nd meeting, on 14 March, Ms. Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, made statements.

(f) The changes to Corrections policy and practice implemented to give effect to the recommendations of the Arbour Report on the treatment of female offenders in the federal prison system

The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Louise Arbour, has stressed, however, that respect for human rights is not an obstacle but rather an essential element in effective counter terrorism strategies.

The Secretary General I am very pleased that the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, is with us today to present the report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur.

The Special Rapporteur welcomed the invitation to participate in this important meeting and the request by Mrs. Louise Arbour, High Commissioner for Human Rights, that he should moderate this meeting following her departure.

In the meantime, we welcome the universal endorsement of the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, and our collective decision to double the resources available to her Office.

12.10 The State party also points out that the issue of an international inquiry was raised with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Louise Arbour, when she visited Stockholm in December 2004.

Ms. Arbour concluded that the findings of the Commission irrefutably demonstrated that there was no hope for sustainable peace in Darfur without immediate access to justice and that it was imperative to rehabilitate Sudanese justice.

At the 48th meeting on 13 April 2005, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Louise Arbour, introduced the report on the situation of human rights in Colombia (E CN.4 2005 10).

Ms. Arbour (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) said that the projected reform of the treaty body system was ambitious, but that without such a reform the accumulated backlog of reports would never be cleared.

Following the visit to Sierra Leone from 13 to 16 July 2005 of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, the Government displayed a renewed interest in the establishment of the National Human Rights Commission.

At its resumed fifty eighth session, the General Assembly, on 25 February 2004, approved the appointment by the Secretary General of Ms. Louise Arbour (Canada) as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for a term of office of four years (decision 58 417).

At the 2nd meeting, on 16 May, presentations were made by Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mark Malloch Brown, UNDP Administrator and Chair of the United Nations Development Group, and Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to the Secretary General and Director of the Millennium Project.

The President (spoke in French) In accordance with the understanding reached in the Council's prior consultations, I shall take it that the Security Council agrees to extend an invitation under rule 39 of its provisional rules of procedure to Ms. Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The panellists will include Ms. Louise Arbour, High Commissioner for Human Rights (lead panellist) H.E. Mr. Ibrahim Salama, Chairman Rapporteur of the Working Group on the Right to Development (expert panellist) and Ms. Hina Jilani, Special Representative of the Secretary General on the situation of human rights defenders (expert panellist).

On the morning of 30 September, the Security Council held informal consultations to hear briefings by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Louise Arbour, and the Special Adviser to the Secretary General for the prevention of genocide, Mr. Juan Mendez, on their recent trip to the Sudan.

Perhaps more significantly, the international community s failure to address Zimbabwe seriously shows, once again, that it lacks the political will to prevent foreseeable crises. Last year, UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour condemned the regime s use of torture and its mistreatment of pro democracy forces.

Democracies have long known that extreme and indiscriminate punishment which by definition affects friend and foe, combatant and civilian alike is a grave violation of international law, as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, has pointed out. They also know that such action fuels radicalism, leading to the kind of tragic consequences that are all too familiar nowadays.

Before giving the floor to Ms. Arbour to introduce the report of the International Commission of Inquiry, I would like, in my capacity as President of the Security Council, to express my thanks to the Translation Services, which worked so hard to produce such a voluminous report in all of the official languages of the Security Council under extreme time constraints.

In a speech by the High Commissioner for Human Rights delivered on 27 August 2004 to the Biennial Conference of the International Commission of Jurists, Ms. Arbour underscored the importance of judicial review, stating, Put bluntly, the judiciary should not surrender its sober, long term, principled analysis of issues to a call by the executive for extraordinary measures grounded in information that cannot be shared, to achieve results that cannot be measured .

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, informed the meeting about the Secretary General's ideas on strengthening the human rights treaty body system, most recently put forward in his report, In larger freedom (A 59 2005 and Add.1 3) and the ideas set out in the OHCHR Plan of Action (A 59 2005 Add.3), which the Secretary General had requested and which subsequently was incorporated into his report.

Ms. Arbour (High Commissioner for Human Rights) said that the Secretary General's reform agenda, as outlined in his report, entitled In larger freedom (A 59 2005), coupled with the 2005 World Summit Outcome (A 60 L.1), represented an ambitious and necessary programme of change for the United Nations by which Member States promised to deliver on the normative progress that had been made during the previous 60 years in framing, articulating and advancing international human rights law.