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     WWW.UNHCHR.CH - The High Commissioner for Human Rights' new website 
     contains the following information:
     
     
     1) coverage of the 53rd Commission on Human Rights to include:
     -       agenda
     -       order of the day, speaker's list and statements of dignitaries
     -       documents of the commission (excluding NGO series and letters 
     from the Governments,etc.)
     -       press releases in English and French
     
     2) 'What's New':
     -       news items
     -       calendar of meetings
     -       newly downloaded documents
     
     3) 'Human Rights Program':
     
     a) Conventional Mechanisms:
     -       access to the Treaty Body Database providing for example: 
     information on state reporting, status of ratification, and the full 
     text of treaty body documentation (state reports, concluding 
     observations beginning with most recent and working backwards to 1993)
     -       subject search function within the Treaty Body Database 
     (consult 'helpful hints' for instructions on use)
     -       tentative schedule and provisional agendas for treaty 
     bodies
     
     b) Extra-Conventional Mechansisms:
     -       resolutions and reports by country or thematic mechanisms, 
     including those of the Special Rapporteurs
     -       list of special rapporteurs, their missions and mission 
     reports
     
     c) other activities of the centre to include: 
     -       advisory services and technical co-operation
     -       field operations
     -       complaints procedures
     -       voluntary or trust funds
     -       human rights issues
     
     3)  Human Rights Documents:
     all reports and resolutions listed chronologically beginning with most 
     recent and dating back to 1994.
     
     4)  In progress:
     
     -       development of "human rights issues" and field operations 
     -       website search function
     -       French and Spanish versions

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