The Human Rights Council will hear an address from Mr. Nicolás Maduro Moros, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, on Thursday, 12 November, in the context of a special meeting of the Council held as a matter of courtesy at the request of the Government of Venezuela. The special…

The twenty-third session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 2 to 13 November during which the next group of 14 States are scheduled to have their human rights records examined under…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission today concluded its eightieth session. Delegations from Iraq, including the Head of Iraq’s Committee of Financial Experts, which is responsible for the oversight of Iraq's oil revenues, and Kuwait addressed the fifteen-member…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its eightieth session on 28 October 2015. Delegations from Iraq, including representatives from Iraq’s Committee of Financial Experts, and Kuwait will address the Council at its opening plenary session. During the…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Burundi, Italy, Guyana, Iraq, Morocco, Sudan and Greece The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon concluded its fifty-sixth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the…

The participants have just concluded the thirty-third round of the Geneva International Discussions. The deliberations were constructive and substantive. The Co-Chairs were encouraged to see frank and open exchanges taking place despite persistent diverging views. In Working Group I, the…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its seventieth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Poland, Timor-Leste and the United Arab Emirates under the Convention on the…

Adopts Resolutions on Promoting Reconciliation in Sri Lanka and Grave Situation of Human Rights in Syria, and Extends Four Mandates The Human Rights Council concluded its thirtieth regular session this afternoon after adopting 32 texts on a wide range of issues, as well as its report for the…

The Conference on Disarmament this afternoon adopted its annual report to the United Nations General Assembly and concluded its 2015 session. The report will be uploaded here. The 2015 session of the Conference on Disarmament opened on 20 January with a message by the Secretary-General of the…

GENEVA (Issued as received) – Today, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights made public a decision* (Views) in which it found that Spain violated the right to housing of an individual identified as Ms. I.D.G., whose house was subjected to a special mortgage enforcement procedure due…