The Conference on Disarmament, the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community, concludes its 2011 session this week. The first plenary session began on 25 January and it officially ends on Friday 16 September. Addressing the Conference on 26 January, the…

The President of the Human Rights Council, Laura Dupuy Lasserre today appointed three high-level experts as members of the Commission of Inquiry to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law since March 2011 in the Syrian Arab Republic, as mandated by the Human Rights…

The Human Rights Council will hold its eighteenth regular session from 12 to 30 September at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. On the morning of Monday, 12 September, the Council will hear an update by Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to be followed by a general…

GENEVA – The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Friday expressed deep regret at the insistence of authorities in the United Kingdom to proceed with the eviction of Gypsy and Traveller families at the Dale Farm in Essex before providing culturally appropriate…

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Paraguay, the Maldives, Kenya, Georgia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Albania, the United Kingdom and Malta The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its four-week seventy-ninth session and released its concluding…

Adopts resolution that requires the dispatch of a commission of inquiryAdopts resolution that requires the dispatch of a commission of inquiry The Human Rights Council concluded its seventeenth Special Session, which was convened yesterday and was devoted to “the situation of human rights in the…

Hears address by Cuba’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs The Conference on Disarmament held a plenary meeting this morning, which marked the first under the presidency of Cuba. The Conference also heard an address by the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, and welcomed participants of the…

The 2011 United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament starts today at the United Nations Office at Geneva with the participation of young diplomats from 25 Member States of the United Nations. The programme will last for a period of nine weeks. Diplomats from the following 25 Member…

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on "The situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic” on Monday, 22 August starting at 11:30 a.m. in Room XX of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. This will be the second Special Session the Council has held on Syria this year, the first…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee today concluded its seventh session during which it adopted five recommendations to the Human Rights Council, submitted a letter to the Human Rights Council to consider holding a special session on the food crisis in the Horn of Africa, appointed five…