The Committee on the Rights of the Child opened its seventy-eighth session this morning, hearing an address by Adam Abdelmoula, Director of the Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and adopting its agenda and programme of work...

The Committee against Torture this afternoon discussed the eleventh annual report of the Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture with the Subcommittee’s Chair Malcolm Evans. Mr. Evans highlighted the key aspects of the annual report, and reminded that about half of the States parties to the...

The Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its consideration of the third periodic report of Tajikistan on the efforts made by the State party to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture. Introducing the report, Yusuf Rahmon, General Prosecutor of Tajikistan,...

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twenty-second and twenty-third periodic report of Sweden on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination....

The Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its consideration of the sixth periodic report of the Czech Republic on the efforts made by the State party to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture. Introducing the report, Andrea Baršová, Director, Human Rights and...

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined eighth to fourteenth periodic report of Mauritania on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting...

The Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its consideration of the third periodic report of Qatar on the efforts made by the State party to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture. Introducing the report, Ahmed Hassan Al-Hamadi, Secretary General of the Ministry of...

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined seventeenth to twenty-third periodic report of Nepal on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination....

The Committee against Torture this afternoon completed its consideration of the fifth periodic report of Belarus on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Introducing the report, Yuri Ambrazevich,...

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning held an informal meeting with representatives of non-governmental organizations with respect to Nepal, Mauritania and Sweden, whose reports on the implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the...