Creates Special Procedure on Indigenous Peoples and Extends Mandates of Seven Special Procedures, Including on Sudan and Liberia The Human Rights Council today concluded its resumed sixth session, after having, among other things, extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on human rights in...

Meeting to Discuss Ways and Means to Enhance National Implementation and Regional Cooperation The Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) will be held in Geneva from 10 to 14 December 2007. The Meeting will develop and consolidate the work of the Meeting of Experts (...

The Human Rights Council will hold the second part of its sixth session from 10 to 14 December at the Palais des Nations to discuss issues relating to the promotion and protection of human rights around the world. The Council will also consider human rights situations that require its attention,...

Adopts Observations and Recommendations on Initial Report of Ecuador The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today presented its concluding observations and recommendations on the initial report of Ecuador, which it considered during this...

Issues Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Costa Rica, Ukraine, San Marino, Belgium and Paraguay The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today concluded its thirty-ninth session and issued its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports presented...

Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Latvia, Uzbekistan, Estonia, Norway, Portugal and Benin as well as General Comment on Article 2 The Committee against Torture today concluded its thirty-ninth session and issued its concluding observations and recommendations on reports from Latvia,...

Following is the message of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the 2007 Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. It was delivered on his behalf by Sergio Duarte, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, on 7 November 2007 at the...

Following is the message of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the Ninth Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. It was delivered on his behalf by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Under-Secretary-General and the...

The Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW), chaired by Ambassador Fransiscos Verros of Greece, concluded on 13...

On 5 November 2007, the first Conference of the States Parties to Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War annexed to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) successfully concluded its meeting in Geneva. Under the presidency of Ambassador Johannes C. Landman of the Netherlands, the...