Marie-Therese Keita Bocoum of Côte d’Ivoire Named as Independent Expert The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its special session on the situation of human rights in the Central African Republic by appointing an Independent Expert on the situation and requesting the immediate…

The Conference on Disarmament, the world's single multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold the first public plenary of its 2014 session on Tuesday, 21 January at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will address the plenary. The session…

GENEVA (14 January 2014) – Children whose rights have been violated will soon be able to complain to a key United Nations Committee after a new legal instrument on the rights of the child was ratified by the required 10 countries. Costa Rica became on 14 January* the 10th country to ratify the…

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on Monday, 20 January on the human rights situation in the Central African Republic. The request for the Special Session was submitted in a letter today by the Permanent Representative of Ethiopia on behalf of the African Group. It was signed…

Enforced disappearances are being committed on a wide scale throughout Syria as part of a campaign of intimidation and as a tactic of war, according to a report published today by the United Nations panel investigating human rights violations in the country. "Without a trace: enforced…

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

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today concluded its fifty-first session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on how Kuwait, Albania, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Djibouti, Belarus, Egypt, Gabon, Austria and Norway comply with the standards of the…

The Committee against Torture today concluded its fifty-first session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on reports on the implementation of the provisions of the International Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, under the Presidency of Australia, today concluded its seventy-sixth session held in Geneva from 19 to 21 November 2013. Delegations from Iraq, including the Head and members of Iraq’s Committee of Financial Experts, Jordan and…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its seventy-sixth session from 19 to 21 November 2013 under the Presidency of Ambassador Peter Woolcott (Permanent Representative of Australia). Delegations from Iraq, Jordan and Kuwait will address the Council at its…