Afghanistan's top rights body has said 97 civilians were killed, most of them children.

It was agreed that another meeting should be called to launch a civil rights body and this took place on 29 January 1967.

"The arbitrary nature of such actions, which myriad international human rights bodies have condemned, is glaringly obvious."

The restrictions against opposition to the draft were criticized by human rights bodies.

But as the main United Nations rights body opened its review this year, terrorism was reshaping the debate.

Human rights bodies should continue monitoring all the reservations to ensure the compliance of the treaty.

Efforts to institutionalize official human rights bodies have been mixed.

No report by a government human rights body has ever been this extensive or graphic.

Malaysia has had an uneasy relationship with human rights bodies, whether national or international.

Asians have been particularly critical of what they see as the dominance of "Western values" in international human rights bodies.