The Human Rights Council will hold its twenty-fourth Special Session on the human rights situation in Burundi on Thursday, 17 December. The request for the Special Session, supported by 43 States, was delivered by the United States on Friday, 11 December. In order for a Special Session to be...

Adopts Concluding Recommendations on Reports of the Holy See, Lithuania, Egypt, Slovenia, Mongolia and Turkey The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its eighty-eighth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of the...

Adopts Recommendations on Reports of Liechtenstein, Azerbaijan, Austria, Denmark, China, including Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, and Jordan The Committee against Torture today concluded its fifty-sixth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations...

The thirty-fourth round of the Geneva International Discussions has just ended. The Co-Chairs welcomed the thorough exchanges of views that took place on the security and humanitarian situation on the ground. The participants welcomed the continued constructive cooperation in...

KINSHASA/GENEVA, 8 December 2015: A United Nations report published Tuesday highlights a worrying clampdown on opposition, media and civil society in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the beginning of the year and stresses the need to guarantee political and civil rights ahead of key...

The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People was commemorated today at a Special Meeting held at the United Nations Office at Geneva. Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the meeting and read out the message of United Nations Secretary-...

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined sixteenth to twenty-third periodic report of the Holy See on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting...

GENEVA (25 November 2015) – Tunisia, Ukraine, Mexico and Niger are among the countries the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) plans to visit in 2016. The SPT’s role is to prevent and eliminate torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment of...

Adopts Concluding Observations on the Reports of Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Timor-Leste, United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today concluded its sixty-second session after adopting...

Venna (Austria), 14 November 2015 Meeting in Vienna on November 14, 2015 as the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), the Arab League, China, Egypt, the EU, France, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United...