Council Decides to Discontinue Consideration of the Situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo under the Complaint Procedure The Human Rights Council this morning approved five candidates for special procedure mandates, including new Special Rapporteurs on the independence of judges and…

Council Concludes Eleventh Regular Session after Adopting Four Resolutions The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its eleventh regular session after adopting four resolutions, in which it established the mandate an of Independent Expert on human rights in Sudan for the period of one…

Council Adopts 13 Resolutions, Including Creation of a New Mandate of Independent Expert on Situation of Human Rights in Sudan The Human Rights Council closed its eleventh regular session this afternoon, adopting 13 texts on a wide range of issues, including on violence against women, trafficking…

Council Concludes General Debate on Racism and Racial Discrimination, Holds General Debate on Technical Assistance and Capacity Building The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti after he presented his…

Council Creates Working Group to Provide a Communications Procedure to the Convention on the Rights of the Child The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted eight resolutions under its agenda item on the promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and…

The Human Rights Council this morning held a general debate on the human rights situation in Palestine and other Occupied Arab Territories. Israel, speaking as a concerned country, said ignoring Palestinian violence against Israel and the denial of Israel's right to exist as a Jewish State…

Council Holds General Debate on Follow-up and Implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action; Vice President of Nigeria Addresses the Council The Human Rights Council today held an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Sudan after…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Githu Muigai, who presented his annual report, as well as reports on missions to Mauritania and the United…

The Human Rights Council this morning listened to a statement by Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. This was followed by a discussion on follow-up to the Council’s ninth Special Session on the situation in the Gaza Strip. Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, President of Brazil, said he had…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a panel discussion on the relationship between climate change and human rights during which participants raised a large number of issues, including the barrier that climate change posed to development in some countries; how climate change impacted on the…