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

The Committee against Torture this afternoon considered the issue of follow-up to concluding observations and recommendations and to individual communications, and the issue of reprisals, hearing from Committee members Jens Modvig, Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations,...

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

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning heard from a representative of a non-governmental organization from Slovenia, ahead of its review of Slovenia’s report later this week. A representative of Amnesty International raised the difficult conditions in which the Roma...

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today considered the combined sixth to eighth periodic report of Lithuania on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, Neris Germanas, Vice-...

Representatives of 162 States parties and dozens of international and civil society organizations will gather in Geneva from 30 November to 4 December 2015 for the Fourteenth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-...

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today marked the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by holding a full-day event at the Palais des Nations entitled “...

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning heard from civil society representatives about the Holy See, ahead of the Committee’s review of the report of the Holy See this afternoon and tomorrow morning. A representative of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta...

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning opened its eighty-eighth session, hearing an address from Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee also adopted its agenda and programme of work for the session, which is taking...

The Committee against Torture concluded this afternoon its consideration of the third periodic report of Jordan on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Presenting the report, Wasfi Abdallah Aly Ayyad,...