Adopts Concluding Observations on the reports of Lithuania and Gabon The Committee on Enforced Disappearances closed its thirteenth session this afternoon after adopting concluding observations on the reports of Lithuania and Gabon, whose reports were considered during the session. It also...

The Conference on Disarmament has concluded its 2017 session, which was held from 23 January to 31 March; 15 May to 30 June; and 31 July to 15 September 2017. During the session, the Presidency of the Conference was successively assumed by Romania, Russian Federation, Senegal, Slovakia,...

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Situation in Ecuador, Indonesia and Mexico The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families concluded this afternoon its twenty-seventh session after adopting its concluding observations and...

The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its thirty-sixth regular session from 11 to 29 September 2017 in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will be opened by Ambassador Joaquín Alexander Maza Martelli of El Salvador...

Geneva, 4 September 2017 (Issued as received) – The United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Burundi has reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed and continue to be committed in Burundi since April 2015, according to the Commission’s report published on...

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Panama, Morocco, Montenegro, Latvia, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this afternoon concluded its eighteenth session, during which it reviewed the initial reports of Panama...

Adopts Concluding Recommendations on the Reports of Kuwait, Russian Federation, United Arab Emirates, Ecuador, Djibouti, Tajikistan, Canada and New Zealand The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon concluded its ninety-third session after adopting its concluding...

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee today concluded its nineteenth session, which was held from 7 to 11 August at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. At the closing meeting, the Advisory Committee, a body of 18 independent experts serving as a think-tank to the United Nations...

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Antigua and Barbuda, Ireland, Panama and Paraguay The Committee against Torture today concluded its sixty-first session after adopting concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Antigua and Barbuda, Ireland,...

(Issued as received) Geneva - In mid-June, Ms. Carla Del Ponte informed her colleagues, Mr. Paulo Pinheiro and Ms. Karen AbuZayd, of her intention to resign from the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic at some point in the near future. Mr. Pinheiro...