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Meeting Summaries

AFTERNOON - Human Rights Council continues its high-level segment and hears from 29 dignitaries

  The Human Rights Council this afternoon continued its high-level segment, hearing addresses by 29 dignitaries who elaborated on their national efforts to promote and protect human rights and to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, and who also raised human rights violations in a number of…
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AFTERNOON - Human Rights Council Holds Annual High-Level Panel Discussion on Human Rights Mainstreaming

  The Human Rights Council this afternoon held its annual high-level panel discussion on human rights mainstreaming, focusing on the state of play in the fight against racism and discrimination 20 years after the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Plan of Action, and the exacerbating…
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OPENING - Human Rights Council Opens Forty-Sixth Regular Session

  The Human Rights Council this morning opened its forty-sixth regular session, hearing from Nazhat Shameem Khan, President of the Council; Volkan Bozkir, President of the General Assembly; António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General; Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner…
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Human Rights Council to Hold its Forty-Sixth Regular Session from 22 February to 23 March 2021

  The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its forty-sixth regular session from 22 February to 23 March 2021 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Council's main annual session will start off with a high-level segment from 22 to 24 February, when dignitaries representing more than…
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CONCLUDING SPECIAL SESSION ON MYANMAR, HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DEPLORES REMOVAL OF ELECTED GOVERNMENT

  The Human Rights Council today adopted a resolution in which it deplored the removal of the Government elected by the people of Myanmar in the general election held on 8 November 2020, and the suspension of mandates of members of all parliaments, and called for the restoration of the…
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CALLS FOR RELEASE OF ALL ARBITRARILY DETAINED PERSONS IN MYANMAR, AND LIFTING OF STATE OF EMERGENCY

  The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a resolution in which it called urgently for the immediate and unconditional release of all persons arbitrarily detained in Myanmar, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint and others, and the lifting of the state…
Compte rendu de séance

Suite à la prise de pouvoir par l'armée du Myanmar, la Haute-Commissaire adjointe aux droits de l’homme déplore « un revers cinglant pour ce pays, après une décennie de progrès dans sa transition démocratique »

  « Un revers cinglant pour ce pays, après une décennie de progrès dans sa transition démocratique » : c’est ainsi que la prise de pouvoir par l'armée du Myanmar, au début de ce mois, a été analysée ce matin par la Haute-Commissaire adjointe aux droits de l’homme, Mme Nada Al-Nashif, devant…
Press Release

Human Rights Council to Hold Special Session on “the Human Rights Implications of the Crisis in Myanmar” on 12 February

  The Human Rights Council will hold a special session on “the human rights implications of the crisis in Myanmar” on Friday, 12 February. The special session will take place in a mainly virtual format starting 10 a.m. from the Assembly Hall of the Palais des Nations. The decision was taken…