The Human Rights Committee this afternoon opened its one hundred and twenty-ninth session in an online format, hearing a statement from Ibrahim Salama, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch, Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division, Office of the United Nations High…

  This is the Committee’s First-Ever Remote Session   The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its seventy-sixth session, its first-ever held remotely. It heard a statement by Ibrahim Salama, Chief, Human Rights Treaties Branch, Human Rights…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives for the World Food Programme, the Human Rights Council, the World Meteorological Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian…

  The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its forty-fourth regular session from 30 June to 20 July 2020 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. During the session, the Council will review reports on a wide range of human rights issues and situations of concern and will engage in…

  Interrompue le 13 mars 2020 du fait de la pandémie de COVID-19, la session avait repris ses travaux à Genève depuis le 15 juin   À l’issue de cette session le Conseil a adopté 43 résolutions et décisions, dont l’une fait suite au débat urgent qu’il a tenu sur le racisme et les…

  La quarante-quatrième session du Conseil commencera le 30 juin 2020   Le Conseil des droits de l’homme a tenu, cet après-midi, une brève réunion pour mettre un terme aux travaux de sa quarante-troisième session. Interrompue le 13 mars dernier du fait de la COVID-19, la session avait…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives for the World Food Programme, the Human Rights Council, the International Labour Organization, the International Telecommunications Union,…

  Extends Mandates on the Situation of Human Rights in the Syrian Arab Republic ; Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action ; Racism and Racial Discrimination; and the Human Rights Situation in Mali   The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted 13…

  The Human Rights Council this morning adopted 13 resolutions in which it, among other actions, extended the mandates of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders; the Special Rapporteur on torture; the Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of…

  Extends Mandates on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Migrants, Minority Issues, Effects of Foreign Debt, and Adequate Housing The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted 14 resolutions in which it, among other actions, requested the High Commissioner for Human Rights, with the…