The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on Friday, 1 June on the deteriorating human rights situation in Syria and the recent killings in El-Houleh. This will be the Council’s nineteenth Special Session and its fourth Special Session on Syria. The request for the Special Session was…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the combined third and fourth periodic report of Cyprus on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Presenting the report, George Papageorgiou, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Social…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning opened its sixtieth session, hearing an address by Marcia Kran, the Director of the Research and Right to Development Division at the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, and adopting its agenda. In her address, Ms. Kran…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director 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, the UN Refugee Agency, the World Food Programme, the International Labour Organization, the…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Labour Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the World Health Organization, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine…

The Committee against Torture this morning considered the issue of follow-up to concluding observations and individual communications, hearing oral presentations by Committee members Felice Gaer, Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations, and Fernando Mariño Menendez, Rapporteur on follow-…

Encyla Chishiba Tina Sinjela, the new Permanent Representative of Zambia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Sinjela had been serving as…

The Committee against Torture this afternoon heard the responses of Cuba to questions raised by Committee Experts on the second periodic report of that country on how it is implementing the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.…

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 UN Environment Programme, the UN Children’s Fund, the International Organization for Migration, the World Food Programme…

The Committee against Torture this morning began its consideration of the second periodic report of Cuba on how it implements the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Introducing the report, Rafael Pino Becquer, Deputy Attorney…