The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the fifth periodic report of the United Kingdom on its implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing the report, Paul Kissack, Director General, Children’s Services, Equalities and…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined third to fifth periodic report of Nepal under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its initial report under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the involvement of children in armed conflict…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined second to fourth periodic report of Samoa on the implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing the report, Faimalotoa Kika Stowers, Minister for Women, Community…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning opened the second part of its 2016 session by hearing statements by Syed Tariq Fatemi, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, and Lassina Zerbo, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child opened its seventy-second session at the Palais Wilson this morning, hearing an address by Ibrahim Salama, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee also adopted its agenda and programme…

The Committee against Torture this afternoon discussed the issue of follow-up to concluding observations and recommendations and to individual communications, hearing from Committee members Jens Modvig, Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations, and Sapana Pradhan-Malla, Rapporteur on…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined thirteenth to fifteenth periodic report of Namibia on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Lidwina…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined seventh to ninth periodic report of Azerbaijan on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the…

The Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its consideration of the fifth periodic report of Israel on the measures taken to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture. Eviatar Manor, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said Israel…

A long standing party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), on 25 April 2016 Lesotho joined Protocol IV on Blinding Laser Weapons and Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War. Lesotho also joined the amendment to Article 1 of the Convention, which ensures that the CCW and its…