The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined sixth to eighth periodic report of Tajikistan on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Introducing the…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twentieth to twenty-second periodic report of Ecuador on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee today continued its consideration of requests addressed to the Advisory Committee stemming from Human Rights Council resolutions and discussed the right to food of the urban poor and rural women. Chinsung Chung, Committee Expert and member of the Drafting…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the UN Children’s Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the UN Refugee…

The Conference on Disarmament today continued with its schedule of activities to discuss the core issues on its agenda and held a thematic discussion on effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons. Ambassador Jean-…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee today discussed issues relating to human rights and terrorist hostage-taking and human rights and international solidarity. With regards to human rights and issues related to terrorist hostage-taking, Wolfgang Stefan Heinz, Rapporteur of the Drafting…

Hears opening statement by the Director of Human Rights Treaties Division The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning opened its eighty-first session, hearing an address by Ibrahim Salama, Director of the Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office of the High…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this morning opened its ninth session, hearing statements from the President of the Human Rights Council and the Director of the Human Rights Council and Special Procedures Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this afternoon took up the preliminary study on promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms through a better understanding of traditional values of humankind. Ahmer Bilal Soofi, Committee Expert and Chair of the Drafting Group on Traditional Values of…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the Coordination…