The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with Gustavo Gallon, the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti, after hearing the presentation of his report. The Council also held an interactive dialogue with Kate Gilmore, Deputy High…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the World Meteorological Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the…

The Human Rights Committee this morning held a public meeting in which it discussed the draft annual report and its methods of work. MARGO WATERVAL, Committee Rapporteur, started with the examination of the annual report of the Human Rights Committee, underlining that it was comprised…

Holds Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, Followed by a General Debate on the Human Rights Situation in Palestine and other Occupied Arab Territories The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive dialogue with…

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. In the general debate, delegates reaffirmed that the inherent dignity and equal and inalienable rights of all members of the…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a general debate on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance after hearing the presentation of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on combatting intolerance, negative stereotyping…

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this afternoon opened its seventeenth session, hearing an address by the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee adopted its agenda and programme of work for the session, which included the consideration…

The Human Rights Committee today discussed an update by the Interim Rapporteur on Follow-up to Views, as well as a progress report by the Rapporteur on Follow-Up to Concluding Observations. Photini Pazartzis, Committee Member and the Interim Rapporteur on Follow-Up to Views, presenting…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning held a public plenary meeting, which was the last meeting under the Presidency of the Russian Federation. Alexey Borodavkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Office at Geneva and the President of the…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the United Nations Children’s Fund, The United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration, the World…