The Conference on Disarmament this afternoon continued to work on adopting its annual report for the 2018 session to the United Nations General Assembly, but did not reach consensus on the adoption of the report submitted to the Conference by its subsidiary body four on effective international…

Hears Address by Minister for Foreign Affairs of Armenia The Human Rights Council today concluded its clustered interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the right to development, Saad Alfarargi, and with the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on…

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this afternoon commemorated the International Day of Sign Languages by holding a discussion in which participants stressed that sign languages were not only a right of deaf persons, but as languages used by more than 70 million people, they…

The Human Rights Council this morning held a high-level panel on the seventieth anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Vojislav Šuc, President of the Human Rights Council, said that the seventieth anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon began a clustered interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, Fabian Salvioli, and with the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the prevention of genocide, Adama…

The Human Rights Council this morning held a clustered interactive dialogue with the Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances and the Working Group on arbitrary detention. Introducing the report, Bernard Duhaime, Chair of the Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances,…

Hears Address by Panama’s Deputy Minister for Multilateral Affairs and Cooperation The Human Rights Council in a midday meeting held a clustered interactive dialogue with the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon began a clustered interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the right to development, Saad Alfarargi, and with the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, Idriss Jazairy. Mr.…

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded its review of the initial report of Malta on measures taken to implement the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Olaph Terribile, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Malta to the…

Hears a Statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela The Human Rights Council today held a general debate on the oral update of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, which she presented on Monday, 10 September. The summary of the oral update can…