The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women this morning opened its forty-seventh session, hearing a statement from Ibrahim Salama, Director of the Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and adopting its agenda and…

Hears Statements by Non-Governmental Organizations and Others The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this morning opened its fourth session, hearing an introductory statement by Ibrahim Wani, Chief of the Africa Branch at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and…

Discusses Situation of the Rights of Women in Burkina Faso and Tunisia The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women this afternoon met with non-governmental organizations to discuss the situation of the rights of women in Burkina Faso and Tunisia, whose reports will be…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons and representatives of the World Food Programme, the International Organization for Migration, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian…

Issues Conclusions on Reports of Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Guatemala, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Spain, Sri Lanka and Sudan The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its three-week fifty-fifth session, adopting its report and issuing its concluding…

Decides to Hold Panel on Human Rights in the Context of Action Taken to Address Terrorist Hostage-Taking and the Responsibility of States The Human Rights Council this morning adopted a resolution in which it established for a period of three years a Working Group on the issue of discrimination…

The Human Rights Council this morning adopted the outcomes of the Universal Periodic Review of Guinea-Bissau and Kiribati. Cletche Sanha, Legal Counsel with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guinea-Bissau, said the real problem affecting the country was its difficulties and limitations, but it had…

Council Adopts Eight Texts and Closes Fifteenth Regular Session The Human Rights Council this afternoon decided to establish a Working Group to elaborate a legally binding instrument on the regulation of the impact of the activities of private military and security companies on the enjoyment of…

The Human Rights Council closed its fifteenth regular session this afternoon after adopting 34 texts which included establishing the mandates of a Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, a Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law…

Council Adopts Statement on Religious Intolerance The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted resolutions in which it established the mandate of a Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, and extended the mandates of the Working Group on arbitrary…