Adopts 33 Resolutions, Extends Mandates of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria and the Independent Expert on Sudan, Adopts Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, and Decides to Establish a Working Group on the Rights of Peasants The Human Rights Council suspended its twenty-first…

Adopts Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Asks Advisory Committee to Finalize Study on Traditional Values and Human Rights The Human Rights Council this morning adopted 10 resolutions in which it adopted Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights and asked the…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child completed its consideration of the combined third and fourth periodic reports of Canada on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child this morning. Presenting the report, Judith Bossé, Assistant Deputy Minister, Public…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon considered the initial report of Canada on how the country was implementing the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. The meeting followed the…

Establishes a Working Group to Draft a United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted 11 resolutions in which it, among other things, decided to establish an open-ended intergovernmental Working Group to…

The Human Rights Council this morning held interactive dialogues with the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia and the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Sudan. Shamsul Bari, Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, said that the…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child considered this morning Albania’s initial reports under the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which deal respectively with the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and with children involved in armed…

Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Presents Reports on South Sudan, Cambodia, Somalia and Yemen The Human Rights Council this afternoon heard the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights present reports by the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights on South Sudan,…

The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive dialogue with Verene Shepherd, Chairperson of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent. Verene Shepherd, Chairperson of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, introducing the reports of the Working Group…

Hears Presentation of Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Complementary Standards The Human Rights Council today heard the presentation of a report from the Ad Hoc Committee on Complementary Standards, and then held a general debate on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of…