Requests Commission of Inquiry to Urgently Conduct a Special Inquiry into the Events in El Houleh and Condemns in the Harshest Terms the Killings The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded a Special Session to examine the deteriorating human rights situation in Syria and the recent…

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on Friday, 1 June on the deteriorating human rights situation in Syria and the recent killings in El-Houleh. This will be the Council’s nineteenth Special Session and its fourth Special Session on Syria. The request for the Special Session was…

Issues Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Slovakia, Peru, New Zealand, Spain and Ethiopia The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on 18 May concluded its three-week forty-eighth session after adopting its report and its concluding observations and…

UPR Working Group to Review Human Rights Records of 14 States The thirteenth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 21 May to 4 June during which the next group of 14 States will have their human rights records examined…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, under the Presidency of Ambassador Hanns Heinrich Schumacher (Germany), today concluded its seventy-third session. At this session, the Council elected Morocco as its second Vice-President. South Africa currently holds the other…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) will hold its seventy-third session from 1 to 3 May 2012 under the Presidency of Ambassador Hanns Heinrich Schumacher (Permanent Representative of Germany). At the opening plenary, the Council will elect a new Vice-President…

Issues Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Paraguay and Tajikistan The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families on 27 April concluded its sixteenth session after issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on…

The United Nations Compensation Commission today made available a total of $1.02 billion to the Government of the State of Kuwait. Payment is being made in respect of the remaining six claims with outstanding balances, all awarded to Kuwait and approved by the Governing Council between 1999 and…

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities released its concluding observations and recommendations on the report of Peru (CRPD/C/PER/1) today after concluding its one-week seventh session on 20 April 2012. The Committee commended the State party for the written…

Hears Address by High Commissioner for Human Rights and Statement by Human Rights Centre of Tajikistan on the Situation in Tajikistan The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families this morning opened its sixteenth session, during which the…