8 years 11 months ago
COUNCIL HOLDS GENERAL DEBATE ON REPORTS BY SECRETARY-GENERAL AND HIGH COMMISSIONER AND ON THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT
14 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this morning heard the presentation of reports by the Working Group on the right to development, the United Nations Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights and her Office, and held a general debate on the reports on the promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development.
Presenting the report of the thirteenth session of the Working Group on the right to development, Tamara Kunanayakam, the…
8 years 11 months ago
THE CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT ADOPTS ANNUAL REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
13 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
Hears a statement by the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and closes its 2012 session
The Conference on Disarmament today adopted its annual report to the General Assembly and concluded its 2012 session. It also heard a concluding statement by the United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs.
Angela Kane, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, said that the 2012 session had once again reached an impasse which was a setback in the effort to advance global disarmament goals. The failures of the Conference on Disarmament were not…
8 years 11 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE ON HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AND WASTE AND ON CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF SLAVERY
13 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh Addresses the Council
The Human Rights Council this morning held a clustered interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and waste, Calin Georgescu, and the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Gulnara Shahinian. The Council also heard an address by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh.
Dipu Moni, Minister of Foreign Affairs of…
8 years 11 months ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT CONCLUDES 2012 SESSION
13 September 2012
Press Release
The Conference on Disarmament, the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community, concluded its 2012 session in a public plenary today. The session began on 22 January and officially ends tomorrow, Friday 14 September.
In a message to the Conference on 24 January - read out by the Secretary General of the Conference, Mr. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said although the future of the Conference was in the hands of its Member States he could not stand by and watch it decline into irrelevancy as…
8 years 11 months ago
COUNCIL DISCUSSES INTIMIDATION OR REPRISALS AGAINST PERSONS WHO COOPERATE WITH THE UNITED NATIONS IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN RIGHTS
13 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a panel discussion on the issue of intimidation or reprisals against individuals and groups who cooperate with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights.
Andras Dekany, Vice-President of the Human Rights Council, reading out a statement on behalf of the President of the Council, said that the Council had the responsibility to ensure that all individuals participating in its meetings and cooperating with it remained secure.…
8 years 11 months ago
COMMITTEE ON PROTECTION OF MIGRANT WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES CONSIDERS REPORT OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
12 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families today completed its consideration of the second periodic report of Bosnia and Herzegovina on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families.
Presenting the report, Saliha Duderija, Assistant Minister of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina, said that as a member of the United Nations, the country regularly fulfilled its…
8 years 11 months ago
COMMITTEE ON PROTECTION OF ALL MIGRANT WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES HOLD MEETING WITH STATES PARTIES
12 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families this afternoon held a public meeting with the States parties to the International Convention on the Protection of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families in which new working methods were discussed.
Abdelhamid El Jamri, Committee Chairperson, said that in its ten years of existence the Committee had made a number of accomplishments and was now working in an optimal way. He spoke about a new comprehensive calendar of reporting…
8 years 11 months ago
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF OMAN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG
12 September 2012
Presentation of Credentials
Abdulla Nasser Musallam Al-Rahbi, the new Permanent Representative of Oman 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. Al-Rahbi was the Chief Executive Officer of the Oman Establishment for Press, Publication and Advertising and Editor-in-Chief of the Oman Newspaper since 2005. In 2010, he also served as Chairman of Trustees of the Faculty of Al Bayan of Translation and Media Sciences.…
8 years 11 months ago
COUNCIL DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY AND PROMOTION OF AN EQUITABLE INTERNATIONAL ORDER
12 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
Commissioner for Political Affairs of the African Union Addresses the Council
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a clustered interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity and the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order. It also heard an address by the Commissioner for Political Affairs of the African Union.
Julia Dolly Joiner, Commissioner for Political Affairs of the African Union, said that the drafting of the Guiding…
8 years 11 months ago
COUNCIL HOLDS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE ON EXTREME POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS AND ON SAFE DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION
12 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
Concludes Interactive Dialogue on Mercenaries and on the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparations and Guarantees of Non-recurrence
The Human Rights Council today held a clustered interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Maria Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona, and with the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque. The Council also concluded its interactive dialogue with the Working Group on the use of mercenaries and the…
