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COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD MEETS WITH STATES
01 February 2018
Meeting Summaries
Calls Attention to Low Reporting and Urges States to Use Simplified Reporting Procedure
The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon held its tenth informal meeting with States, during which it discussed, inter alia, the launch of the two joint General Comments with the Committee on Migrant Workers, the day of general discussion on children human rights defenders, the global study on the situation of children deprived of liberty, the simplified reporting procedure, budgetary allocations for children’s issues, the new structure of the concluding observations, and the…
3 years 6 months ago
PRESIDENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL APPOINTS NEW CHAIRPERSON OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON BURUNDI
01 February 2018
Press Release
Geneva, 1 February 2018 (Issued as received) - The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Vojislav Šuc (Slovenia), announced today the appointment of Mr. Doudou Diène (Senegal) to serve as a member and new chairperson of the Council-mandated Commission of Inquiry on Burundi.
Mr. Diène, who has a distinguished career in human rights having previously served as Special Rapporteur on racism and racial discrimination and Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Côte d’Ivoire, will replace Fatsah Ouguergouz (Algeria) who…
3 years 6 months ago
Press Conference OSE
01 February 2018
Press Conference Announcement
The Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria informs you that the International Syria Support Group's Humanitarian Access Task Force will convene tomorrow, Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 10:30 a.m. at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The meeting will be followed by a press stakeout in Room III, at around 12:30 p.m., with the Special Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Jan Egeland, The press stakeout will be webcast live on webtv.un.org. (Please note that the live stream may not be accessible on all mobile devices.)
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