The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee will hold its twenty-first session from 6 to 10 August 2018 in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Chamber (Room XX) at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. During the session, the Committee will continue its discussions on regional arrangements…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the Reports of Algeria, Bahrain, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Liberia, and Lithuania, and on The Gambia in the absence of a report The Human Rights Committee this afternoon discussed its methods of work and concluded its one hundred and…

Adopts Concluding Observations on the Reports of Australia, Cook Islands, Cyprus, Liechtenstein, Mexico, New Zealand, State of Palestine, and Turkmenistan The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concluded today its seventieth session after adopting its concluding…

Extends Country Mandates on Belarus and Eritrea; Decides to Dispatch Two International Human Rights Experts to the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Calls on All Parties in Syria to Work Towards a Genuine Political Transition; and Appoints Five Special Procedure Mandate Holders The Human Rights…

Mr. President, Vassily Alekseevich, thank you so much for this opportunity. Dear members of the Security Council: 1. When I last briefed this Council on 16 May, I spoke of three bottom-line priorities: 1) de-escalation; 2) reviving the political process and; 3) bridging different groups of…

57th meeting of the Gali Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism Russian version On 27 June 2018, the 57th meeting of the Gali joint Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place under the chairmanship of the United Nations. The meeting was attended by Georgian, Russian, Abkhaz…

Arabic version Good afternoon. I want to make a short statement today to bring you up to date. For the moment I will probably not take questions because there are many details that I would like to be able to elaborate on at a second opportunity [when you will be able to ask questions]. I am in a…

The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its thirty-eighth regular session from 18 June to 6 July 2018 in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, will open the session…

The high-level fissile material cut-off treaty (FMCT) expert preparatory group adopted today its final report, which makes recommendations on substantial elements of a future treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. “I am delighted…

Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Argentina, Angola, Algeria, Montenegro, Russian Federation, Lesotho and Norway The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon concluded its seventy-eighth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports…