Zenon Mukongo Ngay, the new Permanent Representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 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. Mukongo Ngay had…

Yury Ambrazevich, the new Permanent Representative of Belarus 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. Ambrazevich had been serving as Director General…

The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting held its annual half-day discussion on the rights of indigenous peoples, focused on follow-up to the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and its outcome document. In her opening statements, Mona Rishmawi, Chief of Rule of Law, Equality and Non-…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director a.i., United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by the Spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the International Organization for Migration, the International Trade Centre, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United…

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Burundi on the implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Martin Nivyabandi, Minister of Human Rights, Social Affairs, and…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined second to fourth periodic report of Brazil on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as Brazil’s first report under the Optional Protocol to the Convention…

Concludes Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with its Advisory Committee, heard from the Intergovernmental Working Group on a…

Fatima Sidikou, the new Permanent Representative of Niger to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Sidikou had been serving as First Counsellor at the…

The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive dialogue with the Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic after hearing the Commission’s Chairperson, Paulo Pinheiro, present the Commission’s report. At the beginning of the meeting, Joachim Rücker, President of the Human Rights…

Hears from non-governmental organizations from Burundi, Greece and Italy The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights opened its fifty-sixth session this morning and adopted its agenda. It heard from Mr. Ibrahim Salama, Director of the Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office of the…