Hears Address by Minister for Foreign Affairs of Armenia The Human Rights Council today concluded its clustered interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the right to development, Saad Alfarargi, and with the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on...

The Conference on Disarmament this morning continued the work on the adoption of its annual report for the 2018 session to the United Nations General Assembly. Beliz Celasin Rende, Chargé d’Affaires a.i., Permanent Mission of Turkey to the United Nations Office at Geneva and President of the...

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities concluded today its consideration of the initial report of the Philippines on the efforts to implement its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Introducing the report, Virginia Orogo, Secretary of...

The Conference on Disarmament this afternoon continued to work on adopting its annual report for the 2018 session to the United Nations General Assembly, but did not reach consensus on the adoption of the report submitted to the Conference by its subsidiary body four on effective international...

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 afternoon began a clustered interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the right to development, Saad Alfarargi, and with the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, Idriss Jazairy. Mr....

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded its review of the initial report of Malta on measures taken to implement the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Olaph Terribile, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Malta to the...

Hears Address by Panama’s Deputy Minister for Multilateral Affairs and Cooperation The Human Rights Council in a midday meeting held a clustered interactive dialogue with the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of...

The Human Rights Council this morning held a clustered interactive dialogue with the Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances and the Working Group on arbitrary detention. Introducing the report, Bernard Duhaime, Chair of the Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances,...

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities concluded today its consideration of the initial report of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on measures taken to implement the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Dušan Tomšić, Special Counsellor...