Workshop in Riyadh to Focus on Effective National Implementation of Biological Weapons Convention in Member States of Gulf Cooperation Council The Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Support Unit (ISU) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will jointly host a...

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on the “human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and East Jerusalem” on Thursday, 15 October 2009, starting 3 p.m. in Room XX of the Palais des Nations. The holding of the Special Session comes at the request of Palestine....

Adopts Twenty-Eight Resolutions and Three Decisions, Names Experts on Cultural Rights and on Sudan, Extends Mandates of Special Procedures on Cambodia and Somalia The Human Rights Council today closed its twelfth regular session, adopting texts on a wide range of issues, including on...

Issues Conclusions on Reports of Turkey, Philippines, Mozambique, Bolivia, Poland, Pakistan, Qatar and Yemen The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its fifty-second session, adopting its report and issuing its conclusions and recommendations on the situation of children in the...

The Conference on Disarmament this morning adopted its annual report to the General Assembly by consensus and closed the work of its 2009 substantive session, which officially ends this Friday, 18 September. The major achievement of the Conference this year was the adoption of decision CD/1864 on...

Subsequent to the seventh round of the Geneva International Discussions taking place in Geneva on Thursday, 17 September, the three Co-Chairs of the Geneva International Discussions held a Press Conference at the United Nations Office at Geneva. PIERRE MOREL, Special Representative of the European...

The Human Rights Council will hold its twelfth regular session from 14 September to 2 October 2009 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. On the morning of Monday, 14 September, the Council will hear an update by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to be...

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Azerbaijan, Chad, Chile, China and the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macao, Colombia, Ethiopia, Greece, Peru, the Philippines, Poland and the United Arab Emirates The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today...

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this afternoon concluded its third session during which it adopted six recommendations and its report to the Human Rights Council. Among the recommendations adopted, the Advisory Committee submitted for the consideration of the Human Rights Council a...

To mark the start of the second half of the Secretary-General’s 100-day “WMD-We Must Disarm” countdown campaign to the International Day of Peace on 21 September, the United Nations has launched a competition to find the best short film on the issue of nuclear disarmament and/or non-proliferation....