Concludes Interactive Dialogue on Foreign Debt and on the Right to Food, Hears Statements in Observance of International Women’s Day The Human Rights Council today held a clustered interactive dialogue with Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against...

The Committee on Enforced Disappearances today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Tunisia on how that country implements the provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Presenting the report, Kamel Jendoubi, Minister...

The Conference on Disarmament held a public plenary session this morning, in which it observed International Women’s Day and heard from a number of delegations on proposed draft programmes of work and the adoption of the Security Council resolution 2270. Ambassador Steffen Kongstad of Norway,...

The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this morning opened its tenth session, hearing a statement by Simon Walker, Chief of Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section of the Human Rights Treaties Division at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human...

The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child with a panel discussion that focused on the role of information and communications technologies, multi-stakeholders approach and good practices. Marta Santos Pais, Special...

Panel Discusses the International Framework and Challenges Relating to Information and Communications Technologies and Child Sexual Exploitation The Human Rights Council this morning opened its annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child, whose theme this year is information and...

The Human Rights Committee this morning opened its one hundred and sixteenth session, hearing an address by Ibrahim Salama, Director of the Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee adopted its agenda and programme...

The Human Rights Council today held a clustered interactive dialogue with Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Independent Expert on foreign debt, and Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur on the right to food. Mr. Bohoslavsky said that inequality might substantially contribute to the emergence of financial crises....

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a clustered interactive dialogue with Catalina Devandas Aguilar, Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, and Ikponwosa Ero, Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism. Ms. Devandas Aguilar said...

Hears Opening Remarks by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights The Human Rights Council today held its annual interactive debate on the rights of persons with disabilities, with a focus on persons with disabilities in situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies, the standards...