The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined fifth to sixth periodic report of Ecuador on its implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing the report, Alvaro Saenz, Vice Minister of Education of Ecuador, said that the…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon began a clustered interactive dialogue with José Guevara, Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and Urmila Bhoola, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences. Presenting…

Conference Hears Address by the Foreign Minister of Finland and Statements on the Latest Security Council Resolution Imposing New Sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea The Conference on Disarmament this morning was addressed by Timo Soini, Minister for Foreign Affairs of…

Hears an Oral Update by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights The Human Rights Council this morning opened its thirty-sixth regular session, hearing an oral update by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, on the situation of human rights…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a clustered interactive dialogue with Rosa Kornfeld-Matte, Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, and with Leo Heller, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to drinking water and sanitation. Ms. Kornfeld-…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child opened its seventy-sixth session this morning, hearing an address by Orest Nowosad, Chief of the Groups in Focus Section, Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee adopted its…

Hears Addresses by Ministers of Qatar, Venezuela, Finland, United Kingdom and Bolivia, and by the Cambodian Human Rights Committee The Human Rights Council this morning held a clustered interactive dialogue with Houria Es-Slami, Chairperson of the Working Group on enforced or involuntary…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations and the spokespersons for the World Meteorological Organization, the Office for the…

Cristobal Gonzalez-Aller Jurado, the new Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Gonzalez-Aller Jurado had…

Afghanistan on 9 August 2017 joined the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) and all of its five Protocols, notably Protocol I on Non-Detectable Fragments; Amended Protocol II on Mines, booby-traps and other devices; Protocol III on Incendiary Weapons; Protocol IV on Blinding…