The Human Rights Council this afternoon held its annual interactive debate on the rights of persons with disabilities, focusing on the structure and role of national mechanisms in the implementation and monitoring of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Navi Pillay, the United…

GENEVA – The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities announced Friday the creation of a working group to follow up on the situation of the disabled in Haiti, who have been disproportionately affected by the earthquake that hit Haiti in January. Last month, the group of…

Council Concludes Interactive Dialogue with High Commissioner for Human Rights United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kyung-wa Kang, this morning presented a series of reports of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Secretary-General to…

Kanat Saudabayev, the Secretary of State and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, addressed the Conference on Disarmament this morning, reaffirming Kazakhstan’s attachment to the Conference, outlining Kazakhstan’s priorities in disarmament and non-proliferation, and highlighting some of…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the International Labour Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard from Chinami Nishimura, Parliamentary Vice-President for Foreign Affairs, who said that with the forthcoming Global Nuclear Security Summit and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, this year was a critical juncture towards the…

High Commissioner Presents Annual Report on the Activities of her Office This morning the Human Rights Council heard a presentation by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, of the annual report of the work of her Office. Following the presentation there was an…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon continued its interactive dialogue with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, begun this morning following the presentation of her annual report. Responding to questions and issues raised by delegations, Ms. Pillay said on the…

Betty E. King, the new Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. From 1997 to 2001, Ms. King served as the United States…

The Human Rights Council continued with its high-level segment this morning, hearing addresses by 13 dignitaries from Luxembourg, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Ireland, Burkina Faso, Uzbekistan, Austria, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Sweden, Japan, the Czech Republic and Romania, who outlined a number of…