The Human Rights Council at its midday meeting today held a panel discussion on giving a voice to people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS. In an opening statement, Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said 31 years after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, significant gains had…

Hears Presentation from the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a general debate on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, including…

The Human Rights Council this morning opened its general debate on the human rights situation in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories after hearing High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay present the report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the report of the High…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held its general debate on the implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action after concluding its general debate on the human rights situation in Palestine and other Occupied Arab Territories. In the general debate on the implementation of…

The Human Rights Council this morning adopted the outcome of the Universal Periodic Review on Lithuania, Uganda and Timor-Leste. Arturas Gailiunas, Chargé d’Affaires a.i. Minister Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of Lithuania to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said Lithuania received a…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Economic Commission on Europe, the United Nations Children’s Fund…

Council Concludes First Four-Year Universal Periodic Review Cycle The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting today adopted the outcome of the Universal Periodic Review on the Republic of Moldova, Haiti and Antigua and Barbuda. With these adoptions, the Council has concluded its first four-…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a general debate on the Universal Periodic Review, in which speakers agreed that the focus now was on the implementation of the accepted commitments and in making the process less burdensome through reducing the number of recommendations and by ensuring…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning was unable to reach consensus on a draft programme of work presented by the President of the Conference, Ambassador Hisham Badr of Egypt. Pakistan said that unless Pakistan’s concerns were clearly addressed by the Conference on Disarmament, it was not…

The Human Rights Council this morning adopted the outcomes of the Universal Periodic Review on Swaziland, Trinidad and Tobago, and Thailand. Mgwagwa Gamedze, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs of Swaziland, said that about 90 per cent of overall recommendations had received favourable…