Discusses the Topic of the Next General Comment The Human Rights Committee today adopted its General Comment no. 36 on article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the right to life, and provisionally decided that the topic of the next General Comment would be article…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the eighth periodic report of Mauritius on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Introducing the report, Fazila Jeewa-Daureeawoo, the…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon heard from non-governmental organizations on the situation of women’s rights in Mauritius, Tajikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, whose reports will be…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the sixth periodic report of Samoa on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Presenting the report, Faimalotoa Kika Stowers, Minister of…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the sixth periodic report of the Bahamas on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Frankie Campbell, Minister of Social Services and…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the seventh periodic report of the Republic of the Congo on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Inès Nefer Bertille Ingani, Minister…

The Human Rights Committee today finished the second reading of its draft General Comment no. 36 on article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the right to life, after adopting paragraphs 67 to 71. Yuval Shany, Committee Chairperson and Rapporteur for the draft…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the sixth periodic report of Nepal on measures taken to implement the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Tham Maya Thapa, Minister for Women, Children and…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon met with representatives of the civil society from Nepal, the Republic of the Congo, the Bahamas, and Samoa, whose reports will be reviewed this week. Speakers from Nepal said that due to the absence of a definition of…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its seventy-first session, hearing a statement by Ibrahim Salama, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and adopting the agenda and programme of work for…