The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive clustered dialogue on the joint report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on practical recommendations…

Concludes Interactive Dialogue on Foreign Debt and on the Right to Food, Hears Statements in Observance of International Women’s Day The Human Rights Council today held a clustered interactive dialogue with Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a clustered interactive dialogue with Juan Ernesto Mendez, Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child…

Panel Discusses the International Framework and Challenges Relating to Information and Communications Technologies and Child Sexual Exploitation The Human Rights Council this morning opened its annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child, whose theme this year is information and…

The Human Rights Council today held a clustered interactive dialogue with Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Independent Expert on foreign debt, and Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur on the right to food. Mr. Bohoslavsky said that inequality might substantially contribute to the emergence of financial crises.…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child with a panel discussion that focused on the role of information and communications technologies, multi-stakeholders approach and good practices. Marta Santos Pais, Special…

Hears Opening Remarks by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights The Human Rights Council today held its annual interactive debate on the rights of persons with disabilities, with a focus on persons with disabilities in situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies, the standards…

The Human Rights Council today concluded a clustered interactive dialogue with Adama Dieng, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the prevention of genocide, and Michel Forst, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. The clustered interactive dialogue…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a clustered interactive dialogue with Catalina Devandas Aguilar, Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, and Ikponwosa Ero, Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism. Ms. Devandas Aguilar said…

The Human Rights Council this morning held a panel discussion on the relationship between climate change and the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. Choi Kyonglim, President of the Human Rights Council, said that in its resolution 29/15 on human rights and…