The Human Rights Council during a midday meeting held an interactive dialogue with Miklós Haraszti, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus. Mr. Haraszti said that the only positive developments since his last report were the release of six political prisoners and the…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with Mike Smith, Chair of the Commission of Inquiry to investigate systematic, widespread and gross violations of human rights in Eritrea. Presenting the report, Mr. Smith said that the Commission had concluded that Eritrean…

The Human Rights Committee this morning opened its one hundred and seventeenth session, hearing an address by Adam Abdelmoula, Director of the Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee adopted its agenda and programme of work, as well as…

Concludes Interactive Dialogue on Violence against Women and on Discrimination against Women in Law and in Practice The Human Rights Council this morning held a clustered interactive dialogue with Chaloka Beyani, Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, and with…

Hears Presentation of Thematic Reports by the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a general debate on the promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the…

The Human Rights Council this morning concluded its clustered interactive dialogue with Dante Pesce, Chair of the Working Group on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, and David Kaye, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the Human Rights Council, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United…

The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting held a clustered interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the right to education and the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. Kishore Singh, Special Rapporteur on the right to education, in the…

Council Hears Address by Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sudan The Human Rights Council this afternoon began its clustered interactive dialogue with Dubravka Šimonović, Special Rapporteur on violence against women, and Frances Radday, Chair of the Working Group on discrimination against…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning held a discussion on the fifth, sixth and seventh items on its agenda: new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons, radiological weapons; comprehensive programme of disarmament; and transparency in armaments. China believed…