Adopts Concluding Observations on the Situation in the Netherlands, Tajikistan, Nigeria, Mauritania, Paraguay and Equatorial Guinea The Human Rights Committee this afternoon closed its one hundred and twenty-sixth session after adopting concluding observations and recommendations on the...

The Human Rights Committee this afternoon held an informal meeting with States parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The discussion centred on the reform of the treaty bodies, the improvement of the working methods of the Committee, and the Committee’s draft General...

The United Nations Compensation Commission today made available $270 million to the Government of the State of Kuwait towards the Commission’s remaining claim with an outstanding award balance. The United Nations Compensation Commission was established in 1991 in accordance with Security...

The Human Rights Committee this morning carried on with the first reading of its draft General Comment number 37 on article 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the right of peaceful assembly. Christof Heyns, Committee Rapporteur for the draft General Comment,...

Adopts Concluding Observations on the Reports of Qatar, Mozambique, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Austria, Cabo Verde and Guyana The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concluded today its seventy-third session, during which it reviewed the reports of...

Convened by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) in partnership with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) PLENARY IV: WAYS FORWARD TO PRESERVE THE CHARACTER OF THE SACRED CITY AMMAR HIJAZI, Assistant Foreign Minister for Multilateral...

Convened by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) in partnership with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) CLOSING SESSION CHEIKH NIANG, Chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People,...

Le Directeur général de l’ONU Genève, Michael Møller, a signé aujourd’hui avec la nouvelle fondation Portail des Nations, créée par le philanthrope genevois Ivan Pictet, un accord-cadre visant, à terme, la construction d’un nouveau lieu d’accueil et d’information sur l’ONU et sa place au sein de la...

PLENARY III: JERUSALEM: HOLY TO THE THREE MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS BERNARD SABELLA, Former member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, sociologist and Executive Secretary of the Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees (MECC), speaking about challenges in the free access to holy sites in...

Convened by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) in cooperation with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation OPENING SESSION CHEIKH NIANG, Chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP),...