The Human Rights Council this morning opened its agenda item on the promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, and heard the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a clustered interactive debate with the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, its causes and consequences, and the Chair of the Working Group on mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today examined the combined second through fourth periodic reports of Angola on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing the report, Maria da Luz do Rosaria Cirilo de Sa Magalhaes, Deputy…

Le Comité des droits de l'enfant a examiné aujourd'hui le rapport périodique du Guatemala sur les mesures prises par ce pays en application de la Convention relative aux droits de l'enfant. Présentant le rapport de son pays, Mme Ruth Del Valle, Présidente de la Commission présidentielle de…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning opened it fifty-fifth session, hearing an address by Ibrahim Salama, Director of the Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and adopting its agenda and programme of work for the session. Ibrahim…

Hears Update from High Commissioner for Human Rights on Work of her Office The Human Rights Council this morning opened its fifteenth regular session, hearing an update by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on the activities of her Office, following which it held a…

Zalmai Aziz, the new Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Aziz had been serving as Afghanistan’s…

Commissioner for Human Rights of Mauritania Addresses the Council The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its general debate on the update of the report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights after speakers raised a variety of issues including the upcoming review of the Human Rights…

Steffen Smidt, the new Permanent Representative of Denmark to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Smidt had been serving in 2010 as Under…

Jan Knutsson, the new Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Knutsson served as Director General for…