Decides to Dispatch a Team of International Experts to the Kasaï region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Creates new Mandate on Persons Affected by Leprosy, Renews 10 Mandates including on Eritrea, Belarus and Extrajudicial Executions, and Appoints Four Special Procedures Mandate Holders…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Australia, Uruguay, the Netherlands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka and Pakistan The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights closed its sixty-first session this morning, after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on…

The participants in the 40th round of the Geneva International Discussions (GID) just completed their work. In both working groups, wide-ranging and useful discussions took place. In Working Group I dealing with security issues, the situation on the ground was assessed as relatively calm and stable…

Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Antigua and Barbuda, Bhutan, Cameroon, Lebanon, Mongolia, Qatar, Romania and the United States The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon closed its seventy-fifth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on…

The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its thirty-fifth regular session from 6 to 23 June 2017 in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will be opened by Ambassador Joaquín Alexander Maza Martelli of El Salvador,…

(Issued as received) - Geneva, 30 May 2017 -- The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Joaquín Alexander Maza Martelli (El Salvador), announced today the appointment of Ms. Indira Jaising (India), Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy (Sri Lanka) and Mr. Christopher Dominic Sidoti (…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Afghanistan, Argentina, Bahrain, Lebanon, Pakistan and Republic of Korea The Committee against Torture today concluded its sixtieth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Finland, Republic of Moldova, Armenia, Kenya, Cyprus and Bulgaria The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today closed its ninety-second session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on…

Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura will reconvene the intra-Syrian talks under the auspices of the United Nations in Geneva on 16 May 2017. In this round and subsequent ones, he is looking forward to intensified work with invitees on the items on agenda of the talks, within the context of the overall…

Geneva, 1 May 2017 - UN Special Envoy de Mistura will be joining the high-level meeting on Syria in Astana on 3 and 4 May. In view of the urgency and importance of re-establishing a de-escalation of the situation in Syria and moving on confidence-building measures, he has agreed to attend the…