The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a high-level interactive dialogue to assess developments in the situation of human rights on the ground in the Central African Republic, followed by an interactive dialogue on the High Commissioner’s report on South Sudan. Volker Türk, United Nations…

  The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this afternoon closed its twenty-fourth session after adopting its concluding observations on the report of Costa Rica, Zambia in absence of a report, and reports on additional information from Argentina and Germany. Carmen Rosa Villa Quintana,…

  The Committee on Migrant Workers this afternoon concluded its consideration of the third periodic report of the Philippines on how it implements the provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, with…

  The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Mali, followed by an interactive dialogue with the High Commissioner on the findings of the report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on…

Council Concludes General Debate on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance   The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an enhanced interactive dialogue on the oral updates by the High Commissioner and the team of international experts on the situation of human…

  Council Concludes General Debate on the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and Starts General Debate on Racism and Racial Discrimination   The Human Rights Council this morning concluded the general debate on follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and…

  Council Continues General Debate on Follow-Up to and Implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action   Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, this afternoon told the Human Rights Council that despite the many and important steps forward,…

  The Committee on Migrant Workers this afternoon concluded its consideration of the first and second combined periodic reports of Nigeria on how it implements the provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families,…

  The Human Rights Council this morning concluded the general debate under agenda item seven on the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories, and began the general debate under agenda item eight on follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and…

The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families this afternoon concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Morocco, with Committee Experts commending the State Party’s evolving legal framework on migrants, and raising issues…