8 years 10 months ago
COUNCIL ADOPTS FIVE TEXTS, APPOINTS MEMBERS OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE, COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON SYRIA, SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS
28 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
Adopts Draft Report on the Session Ad Referendum, Suspends Twenty-First Session
The Human Rights Council suspended its twenty-first regular session this afternoon after adopting five texts on activities of private military and security companies, international complementary standards to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, assistance to Somalia, the right to development, and concrete action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance.…
8 years 10 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SUSPENDS TWENTY-FIRST SESSION
28 September 2012
Press Release
Adopts 33 Resolutions, Extends Mandates of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria and the Independent Expert on Sudan, Adopts Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, and Decides to Establish a Working Group on the Rights of Peasants
The Human Rights Council suspended its twenty-first regular session this afternoon after adopting 33 resolutions on a wide range of issues in which it, among others, extended the mandates of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria and the Independent Expert on Sudan, adopted the Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, and decided to…
8 years 10 months ago
OHCHR Press Conference
28 September 2012
Press Conference Announcement
Press briefing with Ambassador Laura Dupuy Lasserre, President of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the conclusion of its 21st regular session
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OHCHR Press Conference
Listen to the audio
ftp://MVE-PWSU:vo4KeQnm@unis-ftp.unog.ch/PCOHCHR20120928.mp3
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OHCHR
8 years 10 months ago
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF VIET NAM PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG
28 September 2012
Presentation of Credentials
Nguyen Trung Thanh, the new Permanent Representative of Viet Nam to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Nguyen had been serving as Deputy Chairman of the State Commission for the Overseas Vietnamese at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam since October 2011. He was Ambassador of Viet Nam to Singapore from September 2007 to July 2011. From January 2003 to August 2007, Mr.…
8 years 10 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADOPTS 10 RESOLUTIONS ON SAFE DRINKING WATER, PREVENTABLE MATERNAL MORTALITY AND USE OF MERCENARIES
27 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
Adopts Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Asks Advisory Committee to Finalize Study on Traditional Values and Human Rights
The Human Rights Council this morning adopted 10 resolutions in which it adopted Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights and asked the Advisory Committee to finalize the study on traditional values and human rights. Other resolutions dealt with safe drinking water and sanitation, enforced or involuntary disappearances, dissemination of the Guiding Principles…
8 years 10 months ago
COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONSIDERS REPORT OF CANADA
27 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child completed its consideration of the combined third and fourth periodic reports of Canada on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child this morning.
Presenting the report, Judith Bossé, Assistant Deputy Minister, Public Health Agency of Canada, said that in 2011 there were 7.3 million children under the age of 18 years in Canada and according to a 2006 census, over 400,000 children were identified as First Nations, Métis or Inuit. Children’s rights were a priority in the country’s domestic and foreign…
8 years 10 months ago
COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONSIDERS REPORT OF CANADA ON THE SALE AND EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN
27 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon considered the initial report of Canada on how the country was implementing the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. The meeting followed the consideration by the Committee this morning of Canada’s report under the Convention itself.
Led by the Judith Bossé, Assistant Deputy Minister for the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Canadian delegation answered questions including on the definition…
8 years 10 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADOPTS 11 TEXTS ON SAFETY OF JOURNALISTS, TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE, CORRUPTION AND TERRORIST HOSTAGE-TAKING
27 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
Establishes a Working Group to Draft a United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas
The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted 11 resolutions in which it, among other things, decided to establish an open-ended intergovernmental Working Group to negotiate and finalize a draft United Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, to convene a panel discussion on the negative impact of corruption on the enjoyment of human…
8 years 10 months ago
UNHCR/UNICEF/WFP Press Conference
27 September 2012
Press Conference Announcement
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UNHCR/UNICEF/WFP Press Conference
Listen to the audio
ftp://MVE-PWSU:vo4KeQnm@unis-ftp.unog.ch/PCUNHCR20120927.mp3
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UNHCR
8 years 10 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUES WITH EXPERTS ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN SOMALIA AND IN SUDAN
26 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this morning held interactive dialogues with the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia and the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Sudan.
Shamsul Bari, Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, said that the situation in Somalia was less despondent and more hopeful despite the continuing violence. The Roadmap to completion of the transitional arrangements was coming to an end, which signalled new and important political changes…
