Issues Conclusions on Reports of Georgia, Bulgaria, United States, Republic of Korea, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Philippines and Eritrea The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its forty-eighth session, issuing its conclusions and recommendations on the situation of children in...

Council to Consider Outcome of Universal Periodic Review’s Working Group The Human Rights Council will hold its eighth regular session from 2 to 18 June during which it will consider for the first time the outcome of the Universal Periodic Review’s Working Group on the fulfillment of human rights...

The Human Rights Council held its seventh Special Session today and adopted a resolution on the negative impact on the realization of the right to food of the worsening world food crisis, caused inter alia by the soaring food prices. In the resolution, which was adopted by consensus, the Council...

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Australia, Sweden, Algeria, Costa Rica, Indonesia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Zambia and Iceland The Committee against Torture today concluded its fortieth session after adopting its annual report to the General Assembly and issuing its...

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of France, Benin, Bolivia and India The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concluded its fortieth session today, after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of France, Benin, Bolivia and India, which it...

The Preparatory Committee for the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) held its second session from 28 April to 9 May at the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland. The session was chaired by Ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko of...

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on "the negative impact on the realization of the right to food of the worsening world food crisis, caused inter alia by the soaring food prices", on Thursday, 22 May, in room XIX of the Palais des Nations. The Special Session was called by Cuba...

The second session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 5 to 19 May during which 16 States will have their human rights records examined under this new mechanism. The second group of States to be reviewed under...

The United Nations Compensation Commission has made available today a total of $972,451,530.00 to four Governments for distribution to 26 successful claimants. Payment is being made in respect of 8 claims in category E (claims of corporations and public sector enterprises) and 18 claims in...

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Initial Reports of Syria and Bolivia The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today concluded its eighth session after issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on the...