Fighting was continuing unabated in the Tigray region of Ethiopia and had expanded to neighbouring regions, risking spilling over to the whole Horn of Africa, Michele Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, this afternoon told the Human Rights Council, adding that a…

  Council Holds Interactive Dialogue with the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, Hears Address by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany   The Human Rights Council this morning opened its forty-eighth regular session, hearing a global human rights update from…

  New Committee Members Juan Albán-Alencastro from Ecuador and Suela Janina from Albania Make Solemn Declaration   The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this morning opened its twenty-first session, to be held in a hybrid format, during which it will examine the initial reports of…

  The Conference on Disarmament, the world's single multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, today concluded its 2021 session after adopting its annual report to the General Assembly. The Conference formally adopted the annual report CD/WP.636/Rev.3 as orally amended following last-…

  The Human Rights Council will hold its regular forty-eighth session from 13 September to 8 October at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan of Fiji, President of the Human Rights Council, will open the hybrid session at 10 a.m. on Monday, 13 September in room XX…

  The Conference on Disarmament today continued to seek agreement on its draft annual report to the General Assembly under the Presidency of Ambassador Frank Tressler of Chile. At the beginning of the morning meeting, Ambassador Tressler welcomed members of the United Nations Disarmament…

  The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined fifth and sixth periodic report of the Czech Republic under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Several issues related to the Czech Republic’s National Strategy for the Protection of Children’s…

  The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning opened its eighty-eighth session in Geneva. The Committee adopted its agenda and programme of work for the session, during which it will review the reports of the Czech Republic, Eswatini, Poland, and Switzerland under the Convention on…

  The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded its consideration of the initial periodic report of Djibouti, after its Experts raised questions about alternative reports from civil society, the guardianship regimes effects on legal personhood, and among others.…

  The Conference on Disarmament, under the presidency of Ambassador Frank Tressler Zamorano of Chile, held two public plenary meetings today to discuss the draft annual report for 2021, to be submitted to the First Committee of the General Assembly. The Conference also concluded the…