Issues Conclusions on Reports of Samoa, Ethiopia, Oman, Kiribati, Swaziland, Senegal, Republic of Congo, Benin, Ireland, and Jordan The Committee on the Rights of the Child concluded today its forty-third session and issued its conclusions and recommendations on the situation of children in Samoa…

Council Also Hears Reports by Experts; Concludes Discussion on Report of Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights The Human Rights Council this morning discussed a series of reports presented to it by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and experts on…

Hears presentation of reports on gender issues and status of women The Human Rights Council this afternoon, in the context of its continuing discussion of reports submitted by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, heard the presentation of reports by the Special Adviser of the…

Also Discusses Report of Independent Expert on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty; Concludes Debate on Situation of Human Rights in Haiti The Human Rights Council this morning discussed reports on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Burundi, Democratic…

Hears Report from Chairperson of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights The Human Rights Council this afternoon discussed the reports of its Special Rapporteurs on the situation of human rights in the Sudan and in Belarus, and then took up the report of the Sub-…

Concludes Discussion on Right to Housing, Education, Human Rights and Transnational Corporations, and Counter-Terrorism Measures The Human Rights Council this morning discussed the reports of the Independent Expert on the human rights situation in Somalia, Ghanim Alnajjar, and of the Personal…

Marie Heuzé, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon discussed country-specific reports on the situation of human rights in Cuba, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Cambodia, and Haiti. John Dugard, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, said…

Kwabena Baah-Duodu, the new Permanent Representative of Ghana 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. Baah-Duodu was the Supervising Director…

Mohamed-Siad Doualeh, the new Permanent Representative of Djibouti 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. Doualeh served, since September…