The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive dialogue with the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission to investigate violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, resulting from the Israeli attacks on the flotilla of ships carrying…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a clustered interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and the Chairperson of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, under its agenda…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia. The Special Rapporteur, Surya Prasad Subedi, presenting his report, said Cambodia had made noteworthy progress in protecting and promoting human rights,…

The Human Rights Council this morning took up its agenda item on the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories, under which it considered the report of the Committee of Experts established in the context of follow-up to the report of the Independent International Fact-…

Council Holds General Debate on the Human Rights Situation in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories The United Nations Fact-Finding Mission to investigate violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, resulting from the Israeli attacks on the…

The Human Rights Council this morning held its annual discussion on the integration of a gender perspective in its work. The panel discussed how well the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms had integrated a gender perspective into their work, and identified lessons-learned, obstacles,…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon discussed, under its agenda item eight, Follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, which, speakers said reaffirmed the solemn commitment of all States to fulfil their obligations to promote universal respect for and observance and protection…

The Human Rights Council this morning adopted the outcomes of the Universal Periodic Review of Guyana, Kuwait and Belarus. Gail Teixeira, Presidential Adviser on Governance of the Office of the President of Guyana, said Guyana was proud of its constitutional and parliamentary reforms, and its…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a general debate on the Universal Periodic Review process. In the context of the general debate, speakers raised, among other things, the fact that countries from every corner of the world had participated in the Council's Universal Periodic Review.…

The Human Rights Council this morning adopted the outcomes of the Universal Periodic Review of Kenya and Armenia. Mutula Kilonzo, Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs of Kenya, said that Kenya attached great importance to the work of the Human Rights Council and in…