Committee to Consider Initial Report of Egypt The sixth session of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families will be held at the Palais Wilson in Geneva from 23 to 27 April 2007. At the first meeting, which will start at 10 a.m. on Monday,...

(New York) - The Human Rights Committee, which monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, concluded its three-week session at Headquarters in New York today and, heading into its July session in Geneva, during which it will consider the human rights...

Adopts Eleven Resolutions and Four Decisions, Including on Follow-up to Missions to Darfur and Occupied Palestinian Territory The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its fourth regular session, having considered a large number of reports from its Special Procedures, on the high-level...

The Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Leandro Despouy, issued the following statement today: “Following the recent dismissal of the appeal by Taha Yassin Ramadan against the death sentence imposed by the Iraqi High Tribunal, the Special Rapporteur on the independence of...

The Human Rights Council will hold its fourth session from 12 to 30 March at the Palais des Nations to debate the promotion and protection of human rights around the world.At the beginning of the session, a high-level segment will be held during which dozens of dignitaries will address the...

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Canada, Israel, India, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Liechtenstein, Antigua and Barbuda and Czech Republic The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its seventieth session, issuing concluding observations and...

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, under the Presidency of Ambassador Alex Van Meeuwen (Belgium), today concluded its sixty-second session. At this session, the Council elected Belgium as President, and Indonesia as one of the Vice-Presidents of the Governing...

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its sixty-second session from 20 to 22 February 2007. At the opening plenary meeting, the Governing Council will elect a new president and one of the two vice-presidents of the Council to replace Greece and Japan...

Issues Conclusions on Reports of Kenya, Mali, Honduras, Marshall Islands, Suriname, Malaysia and Chile The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its forty-fourth session and issued its conclusions and recommendations on the situation of children in Kenya, Mali, Honduras, the...

The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba, today announced that the High-Level Mission to Darfur will be led by Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and co-founder of the Nobel Women's Initiative established in 2006. Sima Samar, Special Rapporteur on the...