The Human Rights Council will resume its suspended second session on Monday, 27 November to take action on deferred draft proposals, after which it will immediately begin its scheduled third session. From 22 September to 6 October, the Council heard reports from most of its thematic and country…

The Third Review Conference of States Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, presided by Ambassador François Rivasseau of France, concluded successfully on Friday, 17 November 2006 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Ambassador Rivasseau was assisted by Friends of the President…

United Nations Secretary-General to Address Opening of Conference on 20 November States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) will meet in Geneva from 20 November to 8 December for the Sixth Review Conference of the Convention. BWC review conferences are held every five years to…

Calls for Urgent International Action to End Gross Violationsof Palestinians in Occupied Territory The third special session of the Human Rights Council concluded its work this afternoon after adopting a resolution in which it expressed its shock at the horror of Israeli killing of Palestinian…

A special high level plenary meeting was convened on Monday, 13 November 2006, during the second and final week of the Third Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), to mark the much anticipated entry into force of the Protocol on Explosive…

The Human Rights Council will hold its third special session on Wednesday, 15 November, to consider and take action on the gross human rights violations emanating from Israeli military incursions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent one in Northern Gaza and the assault on…

Adopts Final Conclusions and Recommendations on Reports of Honduras, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine and Republic of Korea The Human Rights Committee concluded today its eighty-eighth session, during which it considered and adopted concluding observations and recommendations on the reports…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, meeting under the Presidency of Ambassador Tassos Kriekoukis (Greece), today concluded its sixty-first session. Representatives of Kuwait, Iraq, and India addressed the fifteen-member Governing Council at its opening plenary…

Adopts Observations and Recommendations on Initial Report of Mexico 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 Mexico, which it considered during this…

The Eighth Annual Conference of the States Parties to the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices (Amended Protocol II), annexed to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be…