45th meeting of Gali Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism On 25 April 2017, the 45th meeting of the joint Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) was held in Gali town under the aegis of the United Nations, with the participation of Georgian, Russian, Abkhaz and EUMM (European…

The twenty-seventh session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 1 to 12 May marking the beginning of the third UPR cycle during which all 193 UN member States will undergo successive reviews spelling out steps they have…

GENEVA (20 April 2017) – The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called for accountability for the reprehensible acts being committed against children in Syria. “Yet again, children are bearing the brunt of horrific attacks in Syria,” said Committee Chair Benyam Dawit Mezmur,…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Situation in Bangladesh, Jamaica and Nigeria The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families concluded this afternoon its twenty-sixth session after adopting its concluding observations and…

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this afternoon closed its seventeenth session after adopting concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Cyprus, Honduras, Iran, Jordan and the Republic of Moldova on how they…

On 5 April 2017, Lebanon joined the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) and its Protocol I on Non-detectable Fragments, Amended Protocol II on Mines, Booby-traps and Other Devices, and Protocol III on Incendiary Weapons. Lebanon also joined the Amendment to Article 1 of the Convention…

Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic Arabic versionGeneva, 4 April 2017 --The Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the attacks on the town of Khan Shikhoun in southern Idlib today which reportedly killed scores…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Bangladesh, Serbia, Turkmenistan, Italy, Thailand, and Bosnia and Herzegovina The Human Rights Committee this morning held a public meeting in which it discussed its methods of work, after which the Committee closed its one hundred and…

The thirty-ninth round of the Geneva International Discussions was held today. The Co-Chairs welcomed the overall business-like atmosphere in which it took place. In Working Group I dealing with security issues, the participants assessed the security situation as relatively calm and stable. There…

The Human Rights Council will convene a special meeting as a matter of courtesy on Wednesday, 29 March 2017 on the occasion of the visit of Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile. The special meeting will start at 11.30am in Room XX. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the United Nations High…