The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today opened its twenty-fifth session online, hearing from the Director of the Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, who was grateful to the Committee for its…

  The Conference on Disarmament today discussed youth and disarmament on the occasion of International Youth Day. Ambassador Leslie E. Norton of Canada, President of the Conference on Disarmament, said that this plenary would be dedicated to a discussion on youth and disarmament. Canada…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twenty-third to twenty-fourth periodic report of Lebanon after its Experts raised questions about the kafala system for migrant domestic workers, the absence of a definition of racial…

  The Conference on Disarmament today discussed a working paper by Australia on consultations held during the Australian Presidency last year. Ambassador Leslie E. Norton of Canada, President of the Conference, said the focus of today’s plenary meeting was document CD/2197, submitted last…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon opened its one hundred and fourth session online, hearing a statement from Mona Rishmawi, Chief of the Rule of Law, Equality and Non-Discrimination Branch at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights,…

  The Conference on Disarmament today discussed proposed linguistic/technical updates to its rules of procedure to reflect the equality of men and women. Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva and Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament, said…

The Committee against Torture this afternoon adopted its concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of Belgium and closed its seventy-first online session. Acting Committee Chairperson Claude Heller said that the Committee had considered the report of Belgium during the session and…

The Conference on Disarmament today held a thematic discussion on item 7 of its agenda on transparency in armaments. Ambassador Leslie Norton of Canada, President of the Conference on Disarmament, said that enhancing transparency on armaments could contribute to building an international…

The Human Rights Committee this afternoon adopted its concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of Togo and closed its online one hundred and thirty-second session. Committee Chairperson Photini Pazartzis said the Committee had completed yet another productive online session, which…

  The Human Rights Committee today adopted reports by the Special Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations concerning Bangladesh, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, and Switzerland. According to the Committee’s procedure, the Committee selects a minimum of two and maximum of four…