The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a resolution on the human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic in which it established a mandate of a Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic. The resolution came at the end of a Special Session, the...

Issues Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Estonia, Israel, Turkmenistan, Cameroon and Argentina The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has concluded its three-week forty-seventh session, adopting its report and issuing its concluding observations and...

States Parties Set to Examine the Operation of the Biological Weapons Convention and Chart its Course for the Next Five Years Representatives of the 165 States parties to the Biological Weapons Convention will meet in Geneva from 5 to 22 December 2011 for the seventh five-yearly review of the...

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on Friday, 2 December “to examine the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic in the light of the report of the Commission of Inquiry”. The request for the Special Session was made by the European Union this morning and was signed...

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Belarus, Bulgaria, Djibouti, Germany, Madagascar, Morocco, Paraguay and Sri Lanka The Committee against Torture concluded its forty-seventh session today, issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on reports from Belarus, Bulgaria,...

The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this afternoon concluded its first session, which began on 8 November at Palais Wilson in Geneva. During the four-day session, which was held mostly in private, the Committee mainly discussed its rules of procedure and methods of work. It also elected its...

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the Reports of Iran, Jamaica, Kuwait and Norway The Human Rights Committee concluded this afternoon its one-hundredth and third session, during which it considered and adopted concluding observations and recommendations on reports submitted by...

The Human Rights Committee held a meeting this afternoon on its working methods, including proposed amendments to rules of procedure, a discussion on the next General Comment and a dialogue on the United Nations greening policy for a reduction in the use of paper. The Committee unanimously adopted...

Today, the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) made available a total of $1,038,375,281 to the Government of the State of Kuwait for distribution to eight successful claimants. Payment is being made in respect of 4 claims in category E (claims of corporations and public sector enterprises...

The Human Rights Council today briefly resumed its suspended eighteenth session to nominate Mutama Ruteere (Kenya) as the new Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. Mr. Ruteere has a strong human rights background with...