The second session of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee will be held from 26 to 30 January 2009 in Room XVII of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. During the session, the Committee will consider requests addressed to it stemming from Human Rights Council resolutions and is expected to…

The Conference on Disarmament, the world's sole multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold the first public plenary of its 2009 session on Tuesday, 20 January at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will open under the presidency of Ambassador Le Hoai Trung of Viet Nam.…

The Human Rights Council concluded its ninth Special Session today by adopting a resolution on the grave violations of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including the recent aggression of the occupied Gaza Strip in which it strongly condemned the ongoing Israeli military operation…

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on Friday, 9 January to address “the grave violations of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including the recent aggression in the occupied Gaza Strip”. The session will take place in Room XIX at the Palais des Nations and will…

From Abkhaz to Zulu, the Universal Declaration was the world’s most translated document, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the commemorative session of the Human Rights Council held in Geneva today on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In his…

United Nations Secretary-General, High Commissioner for Human Rights and Dignitaries to Participate in Commemorative Session The Human Rights Council will hold a commemorative session on Friday 12 December on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights…

States Parties Agree on Common Understandings and to Promote Effective Action on Measures to Improve Biosafety and Biosecurity, Oversight, Education, Awareness Raising, and Codes of Conduct The Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention took place from 1 to 5 December 2008 in…

The Human Rights Council today concluded its eighth special session on the situation of human rights in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adopted a resolution in which it condemned the acts of violence, human rights violations and abuses committed in Kivu, in particular sexual…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Initial Report of El Salvador The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today concluded its ninth session after issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on the initial…

The third session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group will be held in Geneva from 1 to 15 December during which 16 States will have their human rights records examined under this new mechanism. The third group of States to be reviewed under the Universal Periodic…