The Human Rights Council today held a general debate on human rights situations that require the Council’s attention. In the general debate, speakers reiterated serious concern about the rising intolerance against migrants and minorities, fed by racism and populism that were practiced by mainstream...

The Human Rights Council in a midday meeting today held an interactive dialogue with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, regretted that the...

Hears Address by the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom, and Concludes General Debate on the Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive dialogue with the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi. The...

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan. Yasmin Sooka, Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan, said that the Commission during its mission to South Sudan had heard testimonies of wanton killings...

The Committee on the Rights of the Child opened its seventy-ninth session this morning, hearing from Orest Nowosad, Chief of the Groups in Focus Section of the Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanism Division, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and adopting its...

Hears from the President of the Economic and Social Council, and the Working Group on the Right to Development, and Concludes the Interactive Dialogue on Truth, Justice and Reparation, and the Prevention of Genocide The Human Rights Council this morning heard a briefing by the President of the...

The Human Rights Council this afternoon continued its general debate on the promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development. In the general debate, speakers noted that a holistic approach to human rights was...

The Conference on Disarmament this evening adopted a procedural report to the United Nations General Assembly on its 2018 session. Beliz Celasin Rende, Chargé d’Affaires a.i., Permanent Mission of Turkey to the United Nations Office at Geneva and President of the Conference on Disarmament, noting...

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this afternoon commemorated the International Day of Sign Languages by holding a discussion in which participants stressed that sign languages were not only a right of deaf persons, but as languages used by more than 70 million people, they...

The Human Rights Council this morning held a high-level panel on the seventieth anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Vojislav Šuc, President of the Human Rights Council, said that the seventieth anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and...