Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Mexico, Israel, Kuwait, Portugal, Viet Nam, Canada, Turkmenistan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Qatar, Jordan and Italy; adopts annual report to the General Assembly The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination concluded its four-week...

The Human Rights Council this morning heard the presentation of the report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons and then held an interactive dialogue on arbitrary detention and on the human rights of internally displaced persons. Chaloka Beyani, Special...

Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Congo, Grenada, Norway, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Algeria, and Jordan The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on 2 March concluded its fifty-first session and adopted its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of...

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee today concluded its eighth session during which it adopted seven recommendations to the Human Rights Council and adopted both its annual programme of work including new priorities, and its report to the Council. During the session the Committee, a body...

Council Will Start with High-level Segment and Will Hold Panels on Human Rights and Sport, Freedom of Expression on the Internet, Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation The Human Rights Council will hold its nineteenth regular session from 27...

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee will hold its eighth session from 20 to 24th February in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilisations Chamber (Room XX), of the Palais des Nations. During the session the Committee, a body of 18 independent experts serving as a think-tank to the Human...

Issues Concluding Recommendations on Reports of Azerbaijan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Madagascar, Togo, Thailand and the Cook Islands The Committee on the Rights of the Child concluded its fifty-eighth session on 3 February, adopting its report and issuing its concluding observations...

The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) today made available a total of $1,020,000,000 to the Government of the State of Kuwait. Payment is being made in respect of the remaining six claims with outstanding balances, all awarded to Kuwait and approved by the Governing Council between...

The Conference on Disarmament, the world's sole multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold the first public plenary of its 2012 session on Tuesday, 24 January at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will open under the presidency of Ecuador. The presidency of the...

The three Co-Chairs of the Geneva International Discussions, Philippe Lefort, European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus and for the crisis in Georgia; Antti Turunen, United Nations Representative to the Geneva International Discussions and the Joint Incident Prevention and...