The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning heard statements from a series of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on the situation of racism, racial discrimination and related intolerance in the United Kingdom. This is the third meeting with non-governmental…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon began a Special Session concerning the “situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic”. The session was convened after the Council received a request from the delegations of the European Union and Poland, backed by 24 other Member States and signed…

Alessandra Vellucci, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for and Representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme, the United…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has concluded its consideration of the eighth and ninth periodic reports of the Czech Republic on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. At the opening of the…

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on "The situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic” on Monday, 22 August starting at 11:30 a.m. in Room XX of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. This will be the second Special Session the Council has held on Syria this year, the first…

The Conference on Disarmament held a plenary meeting this morning, which was the last under the presidency of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In closing remarks, So Se Pyong, outgoing President of the Conference on Disarmament, said that he had conducted bilateral consultations with…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has completed its consideration of the nineteenth through twenty-first periodic reports of Ukraine on the implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The report of Ukraine…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has concluded its consideration of the fourth and fifth periodic reports of Georgia on the implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The report of Georgia was presented by…

Alessandra Vellucci, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for and Representatives of the World Health Organization, the Secretariat of the United Nations International Strategy for…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has concluded its consideration of the initial to fourth periodic reports of Kenya on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. The report of Kenya was…