The Human Rights Council at a midday meeting today held a clustered interactive dialogue with Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and Maria Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona, Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Ms. Ngozi…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon began a clustered interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights, and…

Council Postpones Decision on Holding an Urgent Debate on the Deteriorating Human Rights Situation in Syria The Human Rights Council this morning opened its regular twenty-third session, hearing an address from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in which she updated the Council…

Concludes General Debate on the Update of the Annual Report of the High Commissioner, Decides to Hold Urgent Debate on Syria on 29 May The Human Rights Council this afternoon heard the presentation of reports by Anand Grover, Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the…

Council to Hear from Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria, 21 Human Rights Experts and to Hold Four Panel Discussions on a Wide Range of Issues The Human Rights Council will hold its twenty-third regular session from 27 May to 14 June 2013 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. A wide range…

Geneva, 7 May 2013 -- The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Remigiusz A. Henczel (Poland), announced today the appointment of Michael Donald Kirby of Australia and Sonja Biserko of Serbia who will join Marzuki Darusman, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the…

The sixteenth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 22 April to 3 May during which the next group of 14 States are scheduled to have their human rights records examined under this mechanism. The group of States to be…

The Human Rights Council this morning adopted six resolutions. The Council decided to extend the mandates of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran as well as the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or…

The Human Rights Council concluded its twenty-second regular session this afternoon after adopting two decisions, two Presidential statements, and 35 resolutions on a wide range of issues. In its resolutions, among others, the Council established a Commission of Inquiry on the Democratic People's…

Council Adopts Four Texts on Occupied Palestinian and Arab Territories and Extends Mandate on Haiti The Human Rights Council this afternoon closed its twenty-second session after adopting nine resolutions and two presidential statements. The Council extended the mandates of the Working Group on…