Concludes Clustered Debate on Freedom of Opinion and Expression and on Peaceful Assembly and Association The Human Rights Council today held a clustered interactive debate with Anand Grover, the Special Rapporteur on the right to health, and Michael K. Addo, the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working…

Council Holds a General Debate on Annual Report of the High Commissioner and Reports of Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General The Human Rights Council this morning opened its twenty-sixth regular session, hearing an address from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a clustered interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue, and the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai. Frank La Rue, Special Rapporteur on…

The Human Rights Council will hold its twenty-sixth regular session from 10 to 27 June 2014 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Highlights of the three-week session will feature a wide range of issues including presentations by the commission of inquiry on Syria, by the Special Rapporteur on…

Geneva, 8 May 2014 -- The Human Rights Council today appointed 19 human rights experts to serve as United Nations Special Procedure mandate holders tasked with reporting on a wide range of human rights themes and country situations. At an organizational meeting of the Council held today, Council…

The nineteenth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 28 April to 9 May during which 14 States are scheduled to have their human rights records examined under this mechanism. The group of States to be reviewed by the Universal…

Also adopts resolutions on Syria, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Iran, Myanmar and South Sudan The Human Rights Council concluded its twenty-fifth regular session this evening after adopting 42 texts on a wide range of issues and its report for the session. The Council also adopted the…

Also Extends Mandates on Adequate Housing and on Human Rights Defenders The Human Rights Council this morning adopted 10 texts in which it extended the mandate of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria and the mandates of the Special Rapporteurs on the human rights…

Extends Mandates on Racism and on Mali, Adopts Five Texts on Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories, Appoints Member of Advisory Committee The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted 12 resolutions and two Presidential Statements, appointed a member of Human Rights Council Advisory…

The Human Rights Council this morning held a general debate on its agenda item on technical assistance and capacity building, including on reports on Afghanistan, Libya, Guinea, Somalia and the Central African Republic. The Council also adopted its Universal Periodic Review outcome of Israel.…