The Human Rights Council today heard the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights present reports by the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Liberia and Burundi, and a report by the United Nations Secretary-General on Cambodia, and then held a general debate on its agenda item on technical…

Texts Concern Review of Work of Council, Independence of Judiciary, Human Rights Education, Human Rights of Migrants, Right to Food and Situation in Honduras The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted 15 resolutions and two decisions on a wide variety of subjects, including on the…

Ellen Serwaa Nee-Whang, the new Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to her appointment to Geneva, where she will be serving concurrently…

The Human Rights Council this morning held general debates on the human rights situation in Palestine and other Occupied Arab Territories, on human rights bodies and mechanisms, and on follow-up and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. In the general debate on the human…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon heard the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance present his report and held an interactive dialogue with him. The Council then held a general debate on racism, racial discrimination,…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning reviewed the initial report of Yemen on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. Introducing the…

The Human Rights Council this morning discussed the report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, hearing a presentation by the head of the Mission, statements by Israel and Palestine as concerned countries, and then holding an interactive dialogue with the Mission. Richard Goldstone,…

Yvette Morris, Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was attended by spokespersons for and representatives of the World Meteorological Organization, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the second periodic report of Qatar on how that country is implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing the report, Saif Mugaddam Al Buainain, Assistant Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, said his…

Concludes Interactive Dialogue with Fact-Finding Mission on Gaza Conflict The Human Rights Council this afternoon listened to a presentation by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on her first periodic report on the implementation of the Council resolution on the grave…