The Co-Chairs of the Geneva International Discussions gave a press conference this afternoon at the end of the twenty-eighth round of the Discussions. HERBERT SALBER, European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia, said that Geneva International Discussions…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the Reports of India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Saint Lucia and United Kingdom The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its sixty-sixth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports…

The Human Rights Council will hold its twenty-sixth regular session from 10 to 27 June 2014 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Highlights of the three-week session will feature a wide range of issues including presentations by the commission of inquiry on Syria, by the Special Rapporteur on…

Adopts Concluding Recommendations on Armenia, China, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Indonesia, Lithuania, Monaco, Serbia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon concluded its fifty-second session after adopting its concluding observations and…

Adopts Concluding Recommendations on the Reports of Cyprus, Guinea, Holy See, Lithuania, Montenegro, Sierra Leone, Thailand and Uruguay The Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its fifty-second session after adopting concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, under the Presidency of Australia, today concluded its seventy-seventh session. At this session, the Council elected Jordan as one of the Vice-Presidents of the Governing Council. Jordan replaces Morocco which held vice-presidency…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its seventy-seventh session from 29 to 30 April 2014 under the Presidency of Australia. At the opening plenary, the Council will elect a new Vice-President to replace Morocco, whose term concluded in December 2013. The…

The nineteenth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 28 April to 9 May during which 14 States are scheduled to have their human rights records examined under this mechanism. The group of States to be reviewed by the Universal…

Today, the United Nations Compensation Commission made available $990 million to the Government of the State of Kuwait towards the Commission’s remaining claim with an outstanding award balance. The United Nations Compensation Commission was established in 1991 in accordance with Security Council…

Meeting organized by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People A two-day United Nations Roundtable on Legal Aspects of the Question of Palestine, organized by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People was opened at…