Today, the United Nations Compensation Commission made available approximately $1.09 billion to the Government of the State of Kuwait. Payment is being made in respect of the remaining claims with outstanding balances, all awarded to Kuwait and approved by the Governing Council between 1999 and…

25th anniversary of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishmen NEW YORK (23 October 2012) – Twenty-five years after the entry into force of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, an…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Reservations on Reports of Turkmenistan, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Togo and Chile The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today concluded its fifty-third session and adopted its concluding observations and recommendations on the…

The fourteenth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 22 October to 5 November during which the next group of 14 States will have their human rights records examined under this mechanism. The group of States to be…

The Co-Chairs of the Geneva International Discussions gave a press conference this afternoon at the end of the twenty-first round of the Discussions. PHILIPPE LEFORT, European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus and for the crisis in Georgia, reading out the press communiqué of the…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Liberia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Namibia, Austria, Albania and Canada The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning concluded its sixty-first session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on reports…

High Commissioner for Human Rights Addresses the Committee The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its fifty-third session, hearing a statement from Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and adopting its agenda and programme…

Adopts 33 Resolutions, Extends Mandates of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria and the Independent Expert on Sudan, Adopts Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, and Decides to Establish a Working Group on the Rights of Peasants The Human Rights Council suspended its twenty-first…

Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Argentina, China and Hungary The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded its eighth session, issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on the initial reports of Argentina, China (including the Special…

The Conference on Disarmament, the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community, concluded its 2012 session in a public plenary today. The session began on 22 January and officially ends tomorrow, Friday 14 September. In a message to…