The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twentieth to twenty-second periodic report of Greece on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.…

Statement by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic GENEVA, 3 August 2016 -- Two years ago today, in the early hours of 3 August 2014, ISIS fighters left their bases and brutally attacked the Yazidis of Sinjar, a distinct religious group whose beliefs and…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning heard from civil society representatives about the situation in Greece and the United Kingdom, ahead of the Committee’s review of the reports of these countries this week. In Greece, civil society organizations were concerned…

The Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Mongolia on the measures taken to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture. Introducing the report, Ganbat Erdenebat, Deputy General Prosecutor and Senior Advisor for State…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today opened its ninetieth session, hearing an address by Orest Nowosad, Chief, Groups in Focus Section, Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee also adopted…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning opened the third and final segment of its 2016 session. Ambassador Piotr Stachańczyk of Poland, President of the Conference, informed that an informal plenary meeting, seminar-style, would take place on Tuesday, 9 August, with the participation of two…

Michele Zaccheo, Chief, Radio and Television Section, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization and the International Organization…

Michele Zaccheo, Chief, Radio and Television Section, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health…

The Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its consideration of the special report of Burundi on the measures taken to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture. Jens Modvig, Chairperson of the Committee, explained that, during the Committee’s 2015 session and due to…

The Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Honduras on the measures taken to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture. Karla Eugenia Cueva Aguilar, Undersecretary of State for Human Rights and…