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…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the fifth periodic report of Kuwait on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Introducing the report, Jamal Alghunaim, Permanent…

The Human Rights Committee this afternoon held an informal meeting with States, discussing the lack of human resources which continued to hamper the Committee’s ability to address the current backlog of some 650 individual communications, as well as the late presentation of periodic reports…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration, the World Health Organization and the International Labour Organization.…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the sixth periodic report of Israel on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Introducing the report, Aviva Raz Schechter,…

The Human Rights Committee today discussed the progress report on the Follow-Up to Concluding Observations, and the progress report on the Follow-up to Views. Mauro Politi, Committee Member and Rapporteur on Follow-Up to Concluding Observations, presented a draft report on follow-up to the…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon met with representatives of non-governmental organizations from Israel, Kuwait, Kenya and Oman, whose reports on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined initial and second periodic reports of Nauru on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Introducing the report,…

Dhaka / Bangladesh, 27 October 2017 (Issued as received) – Three United Nations human rights experts concluded their first fact finding mission in Bangladesh today “deeply disturbed” by accounts of killings, torture, rape, arson and aerial attacks reportedly perpetrated against the Rohingya…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, the…