The Committee on the Rights of the Child concluded today its consideration of the combined third to fifth periodic report of Senegal on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Presenting the report, Mame Baba Cisse, Permanent Representative of Senegal to…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined third and fourth periodic report of Iran on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing the report of Iran, Mahmoud Abbasi, Deputy for Human Rights and…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child opened its seventy-first session this morning, hearing an address by Orest Nowosad, Chief of the Groups in Focus Section of the Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee also adopted its agenda and…

States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) have concluded the 2015 Meeting of States Parties (MSP), held at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 14 to 18 December. The meeting was chaired by Ambassador Mazlan Muhammad of Malaysia with the support of Ambassador Henk Cor van der…

The Human Rights Council this morning opened a Special Session on preventing the further deterioration of the human rights situation in Burundi. The Special Session was convened at the request of the United States, and called for by 18 other Member States of the Council and 29 Observer States, said…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a resolution in which it requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to urgently organize and dispatch a mission to Burundi to swiftly investigate violations and abuses of human rights with a view to preventing the further…

The 2015 Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) will be held at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 14 to 18 December 2015. Formally known as the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin…

Geneva, 7 December 2015 -- The Human Rights Council this afternoon elected its new bureau for 2016 at an organizational meeting appointing Ambassador Choi Kyong-lim, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations Office at Geneva, to serve as its President for a term…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning concluded its consideration of the combined fourth to sixth periodic report of Turkey on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Hasan Ulusoy, Director…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning concluded its consideration of the combined nineteenth to twenty-second periodic report of Mongolia on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting…