Adopts Recommendations on the Reports of Tanzania, the Netherlands, Chad and Azerbaijan and on the Situation of Civil and Political Rights in Grenada The Human Rights Committee concluded today its ninety-sixth session, during which it considered and adopted concluding observations and…

The third session of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee will be held from 3 to 7 August 2009 in Room XX of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. During the session, the Committee will consider requests addressed to it stemming from Human Rights Council resolutions and is expected to continue…

The Human Rights Committee this afternoon adopted its annual report to the General Assembly following a discussion among Committee Experts. The annual report covers the period from 1 August 2008 to 31 July 2009 and the ninety-fourth, ninety-fifth and the ninety-sixth sessions of the Human Rights…

The United Nations Compensation Commission today made available a total of $430,000,000.00 to the Government of the State of Kuwait for distribution to 10 successful claimants. Payment is being made in respect of 5 claims in category E (claims of corporations and public sector enterprises) and 5…

This morning the Committee heard presentations of progress reports by Committee members on the status of follow-up to the Committee’s concluding observations and on follow-up to Views. Following the presentations on action taken by States parties to implement concluding observations and Committee…

Seraphin Lissassi, the new Permanent Representative of Benin 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, from January 1983 to date, Mr. Lissassi held…

Abdul Hannan, the new Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Office at Geneva, including other offices in Geneva and Vienna, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Officer-in-charge of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was attended by Spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration, the World Health Organization and the United Nations…

This afternoon, the Human Rights Committee held a dialogue with a representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the development of human rights indicators designed to measure progress in certain human rights areas. The Committee also discussed the…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Officer-in-charge of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva chaired the briefing which was attended by Spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Refugee Agency.Secretary-…