The Conference on Disarmament held a plenary meeting this afternoon in which it heard concluding remarks from Ms. Alicia Victoria Arango Olmos, the outgoing President of the Conference on Disarmament. In her statement, Ms. Arango Olmos said that she was thankful for the flexibility to focus on a…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the UN Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the International Organization for Migration, the World Health Organization, the United…

GENEVA – A United Nations expert committee on migrants’ rights has welcomed the recent adoption by the International Labor Organization (ILO) of the International Convention on Domestic Workers, a landmark legal instrument aimed at protecting the rights and improving the conditions of life of…

Yvette Morris, the Chief of the Radio and Television Section of the Information Service, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the World Trade Organization, the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the…

Extends Mandates of Commission of Inquiry on Libya, and of the Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights of Migrants and on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights The Human Rights Council this morning adopted twelve texts in which it established the mandate of Independent Expert on the situation of human…

Council Names Special Procedure Mandate Holders, Adopts Text on Migrants and Asylum Seekers Fleeing from North Africa, Concludes Seventeenth Session The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted seven texts. The Council condemned the human rights violations occurring before, during and in the…

Adopts 29 Resolutions, Creates Mandate on Côte d'Ivoire, Adopts the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure and Extends Mandate of the Commission of Inquiry on Libya and Appoints New Special Procedures Mandates Holders The Human Rights Council…

Committee reviewed the reports of Bahrain, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt and Finland The Committee on the Rights of the Child on 17 June concluded its three-week fifty-seventh session, adopting its report and issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on 9 reports…

The Conference on Disarmament held a plenary meeting this morning in which it heard a presentation from Gioconda Ubeda, Secretary General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Nuclear Arms in Latin America (OPANAL). The Conference then went on to discuss several items including nuclear…

Concludes General Debate on Human Rights Situations that Require the Council’s Attention The Human Rights Council this morning held interactive dialogues with the Independent Experts on the situation of human rights in Burundi and in Haiti. It also concluded its general debate on human rights…