Hears Statement by the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs The Conference on Disarmament opened its 2018 session today under the presidency of Sri Lanka, hearing a statement by the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu. The…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered via video conference the combined second and third periodic report of Solomon Islands under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing the report, Cedric Alependava, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Women, Youth, Children…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the combined fifth and sixth periodic report of Spain under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing the report, Mario Garcés Sanagustín, Secretary of State for Social Services and Equality of Spain, said that minors comprised…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined fifth and sixth periodic report of Seychelles under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing the report, Jeanne Simeon, Minister of Family Affairs of Seychelles, noted that Seychelles…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined fifth and sixth periodic report of Panama under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing the report, Yazmin Cardenas, Director of the National Secretariat of Childhood, Adolescence and…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined fifth to sixth periodic report of Guatemala under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.Introducing the report, Jorge Luis Borrayo Reyes, President of the Presidential Human Rights Policy…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined fifth to sixth periodic report of Sri Lanka under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing the report, Chandrani Senaratne, Secretary at the Ministry of Women and Child Affairs of Sri…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a resolution in which it strongly condemned the alleged systematic and gross violations of human rights and abuses committed in Myanmar, in particular in Rakhine state, notably against persons belonging to the Rohingya Muslim community and other…

The Human Rights Council this morning opened its twenty-seventh special session on the human rights situation of the minority Rohingya Muslim population and other minorities in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. Opening statements were delivered by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twentieth to twenty-third periodic report of Belarus on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination…