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...

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...