The Committee against Torture this morning opened its fifty-fourth session, hearing a statement by the Director of the Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and adopting its agenda for the session. In an opening statement, Ibrahim Salama, Director…

Ahmad Fawzi, Interim Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the Spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the Office for the Coordination of…

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded its thirteenth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Cook Islands, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Germany, Mongolia and Turkmenistan on how those States parties…

From 13 to 17 April 2015, the States parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW[1]) held intense discussions at the United Nations in Geneva on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) in a Second Meeting of Experts devoted to this subject. Presiding over the Meeting of Experts…

The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Uganda on its implementation of the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. Christopher Onyanga Aparr, Ambassador and…

GENEVA (16 April 2015) – The latest loss of life in the Mediterranean Sea highlights the absolute need for European Union Member States, as well as other States that are major destinations for migrants, to adopt a new approach to migration that places the rights of migrants at the forefront, the…

The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Peru on its implementation of the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. Luis Enrique Chávez Basagoitia, Ambassador…

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today held a day of general discussion on the right to education of persons with disabilities. Experts from the United Nations as well as self-advocates, representatives of States and non-governmental organizations, and members of academia…

Julian Braithwaite, the new Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Braithwaite had been…

The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Kyrgyzstan on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of…