The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a panel discussion to exchange views on good practices and key challenges relevant to access to medicines as one of the fundamental elements of the right to health. Opening the panel discussion, Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner for Human…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the Human Rights Council, the United Nations Refugee Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian…

Delegations Welcome the Draft Proposal of the Programme of Work Presented by the Russian Federation The Conference on Disarmament this morning held a plenary meeting in which numerous delegations strongly condemned the previous day’s launch of four ballistic missiles by the Democratic People’s…

The Human Rights Council this morning held a clustered interactive dialogue with Pablo De Greiff, Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, and with Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. Mr. De…

The Committee on Enforced Disappearances today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Cuba on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta, Deputy General Director of…

The Human Rights Committee today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Bangladesh on its implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Presenting the report of Bangladesh, Anisul Huq, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs…

The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting held a clustered interactive dialogue with Marta Santos Pais, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children, and with Leila Zerrougui, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on children…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon heard the presentation of reports by the Special Rapporteur on the rights to privacy Joseph Cannataci, and by the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography Maud de Boer-Buiquicchio. In his…

The Human Rights Council this morning held the first part of its annual meeting on the rights of the child, with a panel discussion on the protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In opening remarks, Kate Gilmore, United Nations…

The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this morning opened its twelfth session at the Palais Wilson in Geneva, hearing an address by Simon Walker, Chief of the Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section of the Human Rights Treaties Branch at the Office of the High Commissioner…