Monitoring Body for Covenant on Civil, Political Rights Concludes Session, after Considering Reports from Togo, Slovakia, Serbia, Mongolia The United Nations expert body monitoring worldwide implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights concluded its 101stsession at…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by spokespersons of the World Meteorological Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children's Fund, the…

Holds Last Public Plenary of First Part of 2011 Session of the Council The Conference on Disarmament this afternoon held its last public plenary of the first part of its 2011 session and discussed how to forward its work in order to agree on a programme of work. In the discussion, Colombia…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning adopted an indicative timetable to hold informal meetings to discuss its agenda items during the remaining three weeks under the Presidency of China. The President of the Conference, Ambassador Wang Qun of China, said that his open-ended informal…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by spokespersons of the World Health Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the International Organization for Migration, the United…

The Second 2011 Session of the Group of Governmental Experts of the States Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), mandated to continue negotiations to address urgently the humanitarian impact of cluster munitions, as well as to conduct preparatory work for the CCW Fourth…

Adopts Texts on Humanitarian Flotilla, Review of Work of the Council, International Cooperation and Human Rights, Right to Development and Social Forum The Human Rights Council this morning adopted eight resolutions in which it extended the mandates of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by spokespersons of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the World Trade Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United…

Also Adopts Texts on Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Guinea Before Concluding Sixteenth Session The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted 12 texts in which it extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on racism and racial discrimination, and tackled issues concerning…

Adopts 40 Resolutions, Creates Mandate on Iran, Decides to Dispatch Commission to Côte d’Ivoire, and Extends Mandates of Special Procedures on Human Rights Defenders, Violence against Women, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Myanmar and others The Human Rights Council closed its…