Ambassador Uhomoibhi Meets with President Lula Brasilia - - The President of the Human Rights Council, Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi (Nigeria), kicked off an official visit to Brazil on 27 April by meeting President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the Amazon city of Manaus. The visit of the Council…

Three Additional Members of Fact-Finding Mission Appointed The Human Rights Council today announced the appointment of Richard J. Goldstone, former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and current Spinoza Fellow at the Netherlands Institute…

The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi, issued the following statement today on the announcement by the United States to run for election to the Human Rights Council. “I am very encouraged by the news of the decision of the U.S. to run for a seat in the…

Council Establishes Mandate on Cultural Rights, Appoints Rapporteur for Cambodia, Extends Mandates for Myanmar, Somalia and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and Elects Four Members of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee The Human Rights Council closed its tenth regular session this…

The Human Rights Council will hold its tenth regular session from 2 to 27 March 2009 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will start off with a high-level segment from 2 to 4 March when dozens of senior dignitaries will address the Council on their countries’ efforts to promote and…

The Human Rights Council concluded it tenth Special Session today after adopting a resolution on the impact of the global economic and financial crises on the universal realization and effective enjoyment of human rights in which it stressed that global economic and financial crises did not…

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on Friday, 20 February on the impact of the global economic and financial crises on the universal realization and effective enjoyment of human rights. The session will take place in Room XVII of the Palais des Nations and will begin at 10 a.m.…

Next Group of 16 Countries To Be Reviewed During Fourth Session of Universal Periodic Review Working Group from 2 to 13 February The fourth session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group will be held in Geneva from 2 to 13 February during which the next group of 16…

The Human Rights Council concluded its ninth Special Session today by adopting a resolution on the grave violations of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including the recent aggression of the occupied Gaza Strip in which it strongly condemned the ongoing Israeli military operation…

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on Friday, 9 January to address “the grave violations of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including the recent aggression in the occupied Gaza Strip”. The session will take place in Room XIX at the Palais des Nations and will…