Adopts Resolution Urging Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights to Dispatch a Mission to Syria to Investigate All Alleged Violations of International Human Rights Law The Human Rights Council concluded on 29 April its Special Session on the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab…

Sixteen Countries Will Have Their Human Rights Records Examined Sixteen States will have their human rights records examined during the eleventh session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group to be held in Geneva from 2 to 13 May. These countries are (in order of…

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on Friday, 29 April on “the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic”. The session will start at 11 a.m. in Salle XX of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Special Session was requested by the United States on behalf of 16 Member…

Geneva – The President of Human Rights Council today appointed three high-level experts as members of the Commission of Inquiry to investigate the allegations of serious abuses and violations of human rights committed in Côte d’Ivoire following the presidential elections of 28 November 2010, as…

Adopts Texts on Humanitarian Flotilla, Review of Work of the Council, International Cooperation and Human Rights, Right to Development and Social Forum The Human Rights Council this morning adopted eight resolutions in which it extended the mandates of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights…

Also Adopts Texts on Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Guinea Before Concluding Sixteenth Session The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted 12 texts in which it extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on racism and racial discrimination, and tackled issues concerning…

Adopts 40 Resolutions, Creates Mandate on Iran, Decides to Dispatch Commission to Côte d’Ivoire, and Extends Mandates of Special Procedures on Human Rights Defenders, Violence against Women, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Myanmar and others The Human Rights Council closed its…

Council Extends Mandates on Drinking Water, Freedom of Opinion, Human Rights Defenders, Minority Issues and Violence against Women The Human Rights Council this morning adopted nine resolutions, in which it created a Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, and extended the…

Adopts Texts on Human Rights and Environment, Freedom of Religion, Rights of the Child, Persons with Disabilities, Occupied Syrian Golan, Tunisia and Others The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted 10 resolutions, in which it extended the mandates of the Independent Expert of the effects…

Hears from Minister of State of Somalia The Human Rights Council this morning took up its agenda item on technical assistance and capacity building, holding an interactive dialogue on the third joint report of seven United Nations experts on the situation of human rights in the Democratic…