The Human Rights Council this afternoon held two panel discussions on the human rights of women, the first discussing violence against women – identification of priorities, and the second discussing maternal mortality and the human rights of women. Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner…

Concludes Interactive Dialogue on the Right to Education, Human Rights and Extreme Poverty, and Human Rights and Transnational Corporations The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive dialogue with the Chairperson of the Open-Ended Working Group on an Optional Protocol to the…

Concludes General Debate on the Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Including the Right to Development The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a review, rationalization and improvement process for the mandates of the Special…

The Human Rights Council this morning continued its interactive dialogue with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and…

Concludes Interactive Dialogue on Independence of Judges, Internally Displaced Persons and Extrajudicial Killings The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue on the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, the Independent Expert on the question of…

Speakers Pay Tribute to High Commissioner for Human Rights who Concludes Four-Year Mandate at the End of June The Human Rights Council this morning opened its eighth session and heard statements by Danilo Turk, President of Slovenia, and Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human…

Concludes General Debate with High Commissioner for Human Rights The Human Rights Council this afternoon heard presentations of the reports of the Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and…

Council to Consider Outcome of Universal Periodic Review’s Working Group The Human Rights Council will hold its eighth regular session from 2 to 18 June during which it will consider for the first time the outcome of the Universal Periodic Review’s Working Group on the fulfillment of human rights…

High Commissioner Says Individual Countries Cannot Confront the Scale of the Crisis Alone The Human Rights Council this morning opened its Special Session on the negative impact on the realization of the right to food of the worsening world food crisis, caused inter alia by the soaring food…

Council Concludes Seventh Special Session The seventh Special Session of the Human Rights Council concluded today after adopting a resolution in which the Council expressed grave concern at the worsening world food crisis, which seriously undermined the realization of the right to food for all,…