Speakers Pay Tribute to High Commissioner for Human Rights who Concludes Four-Year Mandate at the End of June The Human Rights Council this morning opened its eighth session and heard statements by Danilo Turk, President of Slovenia, and Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the combined second and third periodic reports of Eritrea on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing the report, Askalu Menkerios, Minister of Labour and Human Welfare of…

Concludes General Debate with High Commissioner for Human Rights The Human Rights Council this afternoon heard presentations of the reports of the Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon considered the initial report of the Philippines on the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on children in armed conflict. Celia C. Yangco, Undersecretary of the Department of Social Welfare and…

Council to Consider Outcome of Universal Periodic Review’s Working Group The Human Rights Council will hold its eighth regular session from 2 to 18 June during which it will consider for the first time the outcome of the Universal Periodic Review’s Working Group on the fulfillment of human rights…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the second periodic report of Sierra Leone on the implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in that country. Teresa Vamoi, Chief Social Development Officer and Head of the Delegation of Sierra Leone, in…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was attended by Spokespersons for the Economic Commission for Europe, the International Labour Organization, the World Health Organization, the…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the initial report of the Republic of Serbia on the implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in that country. Zoran Loncar, Minister of Education of the Republic of Serbia and Head of the Delegation, said…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard statements from the United Kingdom as the incoming President of the Conference on getting the body back to substantive work, and general statements from Iran and Poland. Fiona Paterson, Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the…