The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon met with non-governmental organizations and national human rights institutions from Australia, Cyprus, Liechtenstein and Mexico, whose reports will be reviewed this week. In Australia, organizations reported gaps in…

The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting held a general debate on the follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. During the debate, speakers underlined that the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action was an…

The Human Rights Committee this morning opened its one hundred and twenty-third session at the Palais Wilson in Geneva, hearing an address by Antti Korkeakivi, Chief of Capacity Building and Harmonization Section, Human Rights Treaties Branch, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its seventieth session, hearing a statement by Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, and adopting its agenda and programme of work for the session. Ms. Gilmore described the current period of…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Food Programme, the…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a general debate on the Universal Periodic Review. In the discussion, speakers underscored that the Universal Periodic Review was the main mechanism of intergovernmental cooperation to examine human rights issues at the national level in all countries,…

The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting adopted the Universal Periodic Review outcomes of Israel, Lichtenstein, and Serbia. Vojislav Šuc, President of the Human Rights Council, said Israel had informed him that it would not be present in the room for the consideration of the outcome of its…

The Human Rights Council this morning adopted the outcomes of the Universal Periodic Review of Luxembourg, Barbados, Montenegro and the United Arab Emirates. Pierre-Louis Lorenz, Permanent Representative of Luxembourg to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said that the Government of Luxembourg…

The Human Rights Council during its midday meeting adopted the Universal Periodic Review outcomes of France, Tonga, Romania, and Mali. Vojislav Šuc, President of the Human Rights Council, in opening remarks, said that the current cycle of the Universal Periodic Review provided the opportunity to…

The Human Rights Council this morning concluded its general debate on human rights bodies and mechanisms. In the general debate, delegations voiced deep concern over ongoing intimidation of civil society actors. Some speakers assured that the functioning of the Human Rights Council relied on the…