The Human Rights Council in a midday meeting today held a clustered interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity and the Chairperson Rapporteur of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of impeding the exercise of the right of peoples…

President of Maldives: Recent Events across North Africa and the Middle East Represent a Defining Geopolitical Moment, Similar to the Fall of the Berlin Wall The President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, this afternoon told the Human Rights Council that recent events across North Africa and the…

High-Level Dignitaries from Uruguay, Sri Lanka and Benin Address the Council The Human Rights Council this morning opened its eighteenth regular session, hearing statements by the Foreign Minister of Uruguay, the Minister of Plantation Industries of Sri Lanka, the Minister of Justice for Benin,…

Holds Dialogue with National Human Rights Institutions and Non-Governmental Organizations on situations in Argentina, Chile and Guatemala The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families this morning opened its fifteenth session, during which the…

The President of the Human Rights Council, Laura Dupuy Lasserre today appointed three high-level experts as members of the Commission of Inquiry to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law since March 2011 in the Syrian Arab Republic, as mandated by the Human Rights…

President of Council Appoints Members of the Commission of Inquiry to Investigate Alleged Violations of Human Rights Law in Syria The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its general debate and heard an address by Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the Human Rights Council, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the…

The Human Rights Council will hold its eighteenth regular session from 12 to 30 September at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. On the morning of Monday, 12 September, the Council will hear an update by Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to be followed by a general…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for and Representatives of the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, the World Food Programme, the UN Refugee Agency, the…

GENEVA – The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Friday expressed deep regret at the insistence of authorities in the United Kingdom to proceed with the eviction of Gypsy and Traveller families at the Dale Farm in Essex before providing culturally appropriate…