Concludes Interactive Dialogue on Contemporary Forms of Slavery and on Mercenaries The Human Rights Council this morning started its clustered interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity and the Special Rapporteur on the adverse effects of the…

Concludes Interactive Debate on Human Rights and International Solidarity and on Dumping of Toxic Waste The Human Rights Council this afternoon started its clustered interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water…

The Human Rights Council this morning opened its agenda item on the promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, and heard the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a clustered interactive debate with the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, its causes and consequences, and the Chair of the Working Group on mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of…

Hears Update from High Commissioner for Human Rights on Work of her Office The Human Rights Council this morning opened its fifteenth regular session, hearing an update by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on the activities of her Office, following which it held a…

Commissioner for Human Rights of Mauritania Addresses the Council The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its general debate on the update of the report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights after speakers raised a variety of issues including the upcoming review of the Human Rights…

The Human Rights Council will hold its fifteenth regular session from 13 September to 1 October at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. On the morning of Monday, 13 September, the Council will hear an update by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, to be followed by a…

The President of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Ambassador Sihasak Phuangketkeow, has appointed three preeminent experts to an independent international fact-finding mission to “investigate violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law,…

Council Encourages General Assembly to Proclaim 30 August the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances The Human Rights Council this morning continued its scheduled programme of voting, adopting two resolutions on the promotion of the enjoyment of cultural rights, and on…

Adopts Six Resolutions and a Decision on Freedom of Religion, Violence against Women, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Somalia and Racism; Closes Fourteenth Session The Human Rights Council this afternoon nominated new mandate holders on extrajudicial, summary or…