Council to Hear Presentations from 19 Independent Human Rights Experts and Bodies; Commission on Inquiry on Syria also to Present Latest Report The Human Rights Council will hold its twenty-first regular session from 10 to 28 September 2012 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, during which it…

Adopts Conclusions on Ecuador, Tajikistan, Thailand, Senegal, Fiji, Republic of Korea, Austria, Finland, Liechtenstein and Belize The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its eighty-first session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on…

The 2012 United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament starts today at the United Nations Office at Geneva with the participation of young diplomats from 25 Member States of the United Nations. The programme will last for a period of nine weeks. Diplomats from the following 25 Member…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee today concluded its ninth session after adopting seven recommendations to the Human Rights Council concerning human rights and issues related to terrorist hostage-taking, human rights and international solidarity, traditional values of humankind, the…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee will hold its ninth session from 6 to 10 August in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilisations Chamber (Room XX), of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. During the session, the Committee, a body of 18 independent experts serving as…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concluded its work today by adopting observations and recommendations arising from its consideration of eight country reports that it took up during its fifty-second session. Under consideration during the three-week session were…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the Reports of Armenia, Iceland, Kenya, Lithuania and Maldives The Human Rights Committee concluded this afternoon its one hundred and fifth session, during which it considered and adopted concluding observations and recommendations on reports…

The United Nations Compensation Commission today made available approximately $1.3 billion to the Government of the State of Kuwait. Payment is being made in respect of the remaining six claims with outstanding balances, all awarded to Kuwait and approved by the Governing Council between 1999 and…

Chairperson herald successful start to the new intersessional work programme The 2012 Meeting of Experts from States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) was held in Geneva from 16 to 20 July 2012. The Meeting of Experts was the first meeting in a new intersessional process created…

First meeting of a new intersessional work programme The 2012 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Meeting of Experts will be held at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 16 to 20 July. The BWC prohibits the development, production and stockpiling of biological and toxin Weapons. The 2012…