The Human Rights Committee this morning opened its one hundred and twentieth session at the Palais Wilson in Geneva, hearing an address by Ibrahim Salama, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Division at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee adopted the agenda of the…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High…

Henri Monceau, the new Permanent Observer of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his letter of nomination to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva…

47th meeting of Gali Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism On 28 June 2017, the 47th meeting of the joint Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) was held in Gali town under the chairmanship of the United Nations. Georgian, Russian, Abkhaz and EUMM (European Union Monitoring…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokesperson for the World Health Organization.Syria On behalf of the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria (OSE), Alessandra Vellucci, for the United Nations…

Council Extends Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Eritrea The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted two resolutions in which it extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea for a period of one year, and in which it urged…

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

Council Adopts 11 Resolutions and a Presidential Statement, including on Syria, Ukraine and Côte d’Ivoire, Extends Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Belarus The Human Rights Council this morning adopted 11 resolutions and a Presidential Statement, in which it decided to dispatch a team of…

Decides to Dispatch a Team of International Experts to the Kasaï region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Creates new Mandate on Persons Affected by Leprosy, Renews 10 Mandates including on Eritrea, Belarus and Extrajudicial Executions, and Appoints Four Special Procedures Mandate Holders…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Australia, Uruguay, the Netherlands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka and Pakistan The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights closed its sixty-first session this morning, after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on…