The Human Rights Council will hold its sixteenth regular session from 28 February to 25 March at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Council will begin its session by holding a High-Level Segment from Monday, 28 February to Wednesday, 2 March in which dignitaries will address the Council on…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the eighteenth through twentieth periodic reports of Spain on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, Isaac Salama…

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on "The situation of human rights in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya” on Friday, 25 February, starting at 10 a.m. in Room XX of the Palais des Nations in Geneva.The holding of the Special Session comes at the request of Hungary, on behalf of the…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined third and fourth periodic report of Ireland on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, Diarmund Cole,…

Alessandra Vellucci, the Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Children's…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the nineteenth and twentieth periodic reports of Norway on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, Tora Aasland,…

The Conference on Disarmament held a plenary meeting this morning in which States discussed the inability of the Conference to adopt a programme of work, which had created an impasse in the body for the last 12 years. During the discussion, speakers pointed out that there were documents that had…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning heard statements from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on the situation of racism, racial discrimination, and related intolerance in Ireland, Norway, Serbia and Spain. The representatives of NGOs in Norway particularly…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined sixteenth through twentieth periodic report of Uruguay on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report,…

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