The Human Rights Council will hold a special session on the situation in Lebanon on Friday, 11 August starting 10 a.m. in Room XX of the Palais des Nations. A note verbale from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said the President of the Human Rights Council, having consulted…

Discusses Inter-Committee Meeting, Chairpersons’ Meeting, and Treaty Body Reform The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the sixteenth to eighteenth periodic reports of Mongolia on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the…

Holds Dialogue with UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the initial report of Oman on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. The…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations High Commissioner for…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the initial to third periodic reports of South Africa on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, Brigitte…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the fifteenth and sixteenth periodic reports of Yemen on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, Ali Saleh…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which also heard from Spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the UN Refugee…

Also Considers Report on Follow-Up Procedures The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning held a general debate on the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon, which was organized in response to concerns voiced by Experts at the first meeting of the Committee’s sixty-ninth…

The Conference on Disarmament today opened the third and last part of its 2006 session and started a focused, structured debate on the effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons. Introducing the debate on negative…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the sixth to seventh periodic reports of Estonia on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, Aino Lepik von Wirén,…