The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning heard from a representative of a non-governmental organization from Slovenia, ahead of its review of Slovenia’s report later this week. A representative of Amnesty International raised the difficult conditions in which the Roma…

The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People was commemorated today at a Special Meeting held at the United Nations Office at Geneva. Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the meeting and read out the message of United Nations Secretary-…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director a.i. of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Children Fund, United Nations Refugee Agency, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, International…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today considered the combined sixth to eighth periodic report of Lithuania on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, Neris Germanas, Vice-…

Representatives of 162 States parties and dozens of international and civil society organizations will gather in Geneva from 30 November to 4 December 2015 for the Fourteenth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today marked the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by holding a full-day event at the Palais des Nations entitled “…

GENEVA (25 November 2015) – Tunisia, Ukraine, Mexico and Niger are among the countries the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) plans to visit in 2016. The SPT’s role is to prevent and eliminate torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment of…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined sixteenth to twenty-third periodic report of the Holy See on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director a.i. of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Refugee Agency, United Nations Children Fund, International Organization for…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning heard from civil society representatives about the Holy See, ahead of the Committee’s review of the report of the Holy See this afternoon and tomorrow morning. A representative of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta…