Council Concludes Discussion on Right to Development The Human Rights Council this morning discussed the reports of the Working Groups on the elaboration of an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and on the elaboration of a Convention for the…

Addresses Situation in Occupied Arab Territories, Abuja Agreement, Religious Intolerance, Migration and Human Rights Defenders The Human Rights Council this morning began its general substantive debate, taking up, under agenda item 4, namely, the Implementation of General Assembly resolution 60/…

Discussion also Addresses Religious Intolerance; Migrants and Human Rights Defenders The Human Rights Council, in a midday meeting, concluded its first substantive debate under agenda item 4, namely, the implementation of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, under which it took up…

Sidiki Lamine Sow, the new Permanent Representative of Mali 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. Sow had been serving, since 2003,…

Members Support Continuation of the Mandates of the Working Groups The Human Rights Council this afternoon discussed the reports of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and the Working Group on the Right to…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its sixtieth session from 27 to 29 June 2006 under the Presidency of Ambassador Tassos Kriekoukis (Greece). During the session, the Council will discuss various issues relating to the activity of the Commission…

Council Holds Interactive Dialogue with High Commissioner on her Report Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, today presented her report to the Human Rights Council, stressing that poverty continued to be the most serious, invidious and widespread human rights…

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

Council Adopts Programme of Work The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Chairperson of the Coordinating Committee of Special Procedures, the Vice-Chairperson of the fifty-seventh session of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights,…

Conference Continues Discussing New types of weapons of Mass destruction The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard an address by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Myanmar and continued its structured discussion on item five on the agenda, namely new types of weapons of mass destruction…