Extends Six Country Mandates including on Syria and South Sudan; Renews Mandates on the Right to Privacy, on Human Rights and the Environment, on Cultural Rights, and on People with Albinism; and Decides to Hold a High-Level Panel on the Legacy of Nelson Mandela on 27 April 2018 The Human Rights…

The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its thirty-seventh regular session from 26 February to 23 March 2018 in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will open at 9 a.m. on Monday, 26 February under the presidency of…

Geneva, 1 February 2018 (Issued as received) - The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Vojislav Šuc (Slovenia), announced today the appointment of Mr. Doudou Diène (Senegal) to serve as a member and new chairperson of the Council-mandated Commission of Inquiry on Burundi. Mr. Diène,…

Working Group to Review the Human Rights Records in 14 States The twenty-ninth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 15 to 26 January during which the next group of 14 States are scheduled to have their human rights…

JUBA/ADDIS ABABA (Issued as received) – Four years following the start of the current conflict in South Sudan, gross human rights violations continue to be committed in a widespread way by all parties to the conflict, in which civilians are bearing the brunt, says the Commission on Human Rights in…

KUALA LUMPUR (Issued as received) – UN human rights experts wrapped up this weekend a five-day visit to Malaysia, during which they focused their inquiries on recent human rights violations and abuses allegedly committed in Myanmar. In Malaysia, the experts – members of the Independent…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its special session on the human rights situation of the minority Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. In a resolution, the Council condemned the alleged systematic and gross violations of human rights and abuses…

Geneva, 4 December 2017 (Issued as received) -- The Human Rights Council this afternoon elected Ambassador Vojislav Šuc, Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, to serve as its President for a one-year term beginning on 1 January 2018. The Council also appointed…

The Human Rights Council will hold a special session on "the human rights situation of the minority Rohingya Muslim population and other minorities in the Rakhine State of Myanmar" on Tuesday, 5 December starting at 10 a.m. in Room XX of the Palais des Nations. The special session is being convened…

Working Group to Review the Human Rights Records in 14 States The twenty-eighth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 6 to 17 November during which the next group of 14 States are scheduled to have their human rights…