The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this morning opened its tenth session, hearing a statement by Simon Walker, Chief of Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section of the Human Rights Treaties Division at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human…

Panel Discusses the International Framework and Challenges Relating to Information and Communications Technologies and Child Sexual Exploitation The Human Rights Council this morning opened its annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child, whose theme this year is information and…

The Human Rights Council today held a clustered interactive dialogue with Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Independent Expert on foreign debt, and Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur on the right to food. Mr. Bohoslavsky said that inequality might substantially contribute to the emergence of financial crises.…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child with a panel discussion that focused on the role of information and communications technologies, multi-stakeholders approach and good practices. Marta Santos Pais, Special…

Hears Opening Remarks by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights The Human Rights Council today held its annual interactive debate on the rights of persons with disabilities, with a focus on persons with disabilities in situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies, the standards…

Vaqif Sadiqov, the new Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Sadiqov had been serving as Ambassador of…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the International Organization for Migration, the Office of the High Commissioner for…

The Human Rights Council today concluded a clustered interactive dialogue with Adama Dieng, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the prevention of genocide, and Michel Forst, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. The clustered interactive dialogue…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Namibia, Canada and Kenya The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon concluded its fifty-seventh session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Namibia, Canada and…

Adopts Concluding Recommendations on the Reports of the Czech Republic, Haiti, Iceland, Japan, Mongolia, Sweden, Tanzania and Vanuatu The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today concluded its sixty-third session after adopting its concluding observations and…