Volume 4

July - September 2002

ISSN 1541-2482

1. Omnious portents for 59th CHR: past attemtps to weaken the effectiveness of the CHR provide lessions for the forthcoming session

2. Backroom politicking, promotion of pointless resolutions, exculusion of NGOs - all raised to new levels---as 58th session builds on dubious legacy
3. It's about politics, not brotherhood: it's when Nicaragua points a finger at Cuba, and when the OIC forgets it has brothers outside the Middle East
4. WCAR follow-up: States race to exclude NGOs
5. LMG: Unlikely protectors of human rights
6. War on terror - and on fundamental liberties
7. India: rarely on the rights side
8. Death penalty: no end to it
9. Chechnya: 'We know what it's like'
10. Human rights in Northern Ireland
11. Land reform: No grounds for action, decides CHR
12. Impunity, arms push rights to the side
13. Mandate ends, the repression continues