13 years ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE DISCUSSES RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS AFFECTED BY LEPROSY
07 August 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this afternoon discussed requests from the Human Rights Council to the Committee concerning the human rights of persons with disabilities and the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and members of their family.
Maarit Kohonen of the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Unit, Research and Right to Development Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), introducing the issue of persons with…
13 years ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN
06 August 2008
Meeting Summaries
Establishes a Drafting Group to Discuss the Right to Food
The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this morning discussed the human rights of women and a request from the Human Rights Council for the Committee to implement a gender perspective in the issues on their agenda.
Pierre Sob of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) gave a brief overview of the OHCHR Women's Rights and Gender Unit's seven focus areas on human rights of women: gender sensitive administration of justice; piloting an integrated gender strategy for country engagement…
13 years ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF GERMANY
06 August 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the sixteenth to eighteenth periodic reports of Germany, submitted in one document, on how that State party is fulfilling its obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Birgitta Siefker-Eberle, Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations Office at Geneva, introducing the report, said that the Government was actively engaged in implementing the European Union's anti-discrimination directives in Germany, and…
13 years ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE CONTINUES DISCUSSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN
06 August 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this afternoon continued its general discussion on the human rights of women and a request from the Human Rights Council for the Committee to implement a gender perspective in its work.
During the general discussion, Experts said that gender mainstreaming meant that they had to integrate a women’s perspective into their work and studies. But it was also not inconsistent for the Advisory Committee to work on gender mainstreaming projects. The President of the Council proposed that all members should think…
13 years ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS THE SITUATION IN PERU
06 August 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon reviewed the situation of Peru with regard to its implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, in the presence of a delegation, under the Committee’s review procedure for States parties whose reports were more than five years’ overdue. The Committee also accepted Belize’s request to postpone the examination of the situation in that country until it could draft its report.
Eduardo Ponce Vivanco, Permanent Representative of…
13 years ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HEARS STATEMENT FROM COLOMBIA
05 August 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard a general statement from Ambassador Clemencia Forero Ucros of Colombia, in which she reiterated Colombia’s support for Presidential Draft Decision CD/1840, which aims to get the Conference back to substantive work, and highlighted efforts in the fields of combating illicit flows of small arms and light weapons and the use of anti-personnel mines.
Ms. Forero Ucros observed that draft decision CD/1840, which was the result of the efforts undertaken by the Six Presidents of 2007 and 2008, provided continuity to the work of the Conference,…
13 years ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
05 August 2008
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from spokespersons and representatives from the Universal Postal Union, the World Meteorological Organization, the UN Refugee Agency, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Secretary-General
Ms. Ponomareva-Piquier said that the Secretary-General would conclude his trip to Mexico today. He would be back in New York this…
13 years ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION AND TRAINING
05 August 2008
Meeting Summaries
Adopts Programme of Work and Agenda
The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this morning started to discuss a request from the Human Rights Council for the Committee to prepare a draft declaration on human rights education and training.
Elena Ippoliti of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Research Division provided a brief history on how human rights education was being tackled by the United Nations. She said that the Universal Declaration on Human Rights mentioned that every States should provide for human rights education.…
13 years ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION DISCUSSES STATES' OBLIGATION TO UNDERTAKE SPECIAL MEASURES
05 August 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning concluded its thematic debate, begun yesterday afternoon, on the obligation of States parties to undertake special measures or positive measures – sometimes known as affirmative action – as set out in articles 2 and 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. In the debate, in which representatives from States parties, non-governmental organizations and United Nations agencies participated, issues related to…
13 years ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE DISCUSSES RIGHT TO FOOD
05 August 2008
Meeting Summaries
Appoints Members to Drafting Group on a Draft Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training
The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this afternoon discussed requests to the Committee from the Council concerning the right to food and appointed five of its Experts to a drafting group which will respond to a request to elaborate a draft declaration on human rights education and training.
Maarit Kohonen of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) gave a short overview of the work of OHCHR on the right to adequate food. Even before the present global…
