The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Honduras on its implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Introducing the report, Licenciado Ricardo Leonel Cardona…

The Human Rights Council will hold its thirty-second regular session from 13 June to 1 July 2016 in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The three-week session will include a high-level panel discussion on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of…

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today concluded its consideration of the sixth periodic report of Sweden on its implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Introducing the report, Pernilla Baralt, State Secretary to…

Arabic version Geneva (Issued as received) – Crimes against humanity have been committed in a widespread and systematic manner in Eritrean detention facilities, military training camps and other locations across the country over the past 25 years, according to a new report by the UN Commission of…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning held a plenary meeting in which it heard an update from the President of the Conference on the ongoing informal consultations, as well as statements by Bangladesh and Chile. Ambassador Luis Enrique Chavez Basagoitia of Peru, President of the Conference,…

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today concluded its consideration of the fourth periodic report of France on its implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Elisabeth Laurin, Permanent Representative of France to the…

Ahmad Fawzi, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration. Geneva activities Committees The…

Hears from Civil Society Organizations Regarding the Situation in France, Sweden, Honduras and Burkina Faso The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights opened its fifty-eighth session this morning, adopting its agenda and hearing from a national human rights institution and non-…

Ahmad Fawzi, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration, the…

Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Eight States and General Comment on Public Budgets to Realize the Rights of the Child The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon concluded its seventy-second session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the…