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COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN REVIEWS MARSHALL ISLANDS’ REPORTS
02 March 2018
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined initial to third periodic reports of the Marshall Islands on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Introducing the reports, Molly Helkena, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Culture and Internal Affairs of the Marshall Islands, said that, during its nuclear-weapons testing programme in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958, the United States had conducted 67 tests, the…
3 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL STARTS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE ON TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND ON THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE
02 March 2018
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council in a midday meeting started its interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, Pablo de Greiff, and the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the prevention of genocide, Adama Dieng, focusing on their joint study on the contribution of transitional justice to the prevention of gross violations and abuses of human rights and serious violations of international humanitarian law.
Mr. de Greiff said the joint study…
3 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS URGENT DEBATE ON THE SITUATION IN SYRIA’S EASTERN GHOUTA
02 March 2018
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an urgent debate on the situation in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta.
In his opening statement, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said for half a decade, the people of Eastern Ghouta had been under siege. They had endured every kind of deprivation, with no aid getting through since November 2017, except for one single convoy of humanitarian aid on 14 February that had managed to reach just 7,200 people of the hundreds of thousands living in that area. As a direct result, thousands…
3 years 5 months ago
Press Conference requested by the Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar
02 March 2018
Press Conference Announcement
H.E. Lulwah Rashid Al Khater, Official spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry of the State of Qatar
Title
Press Conference requested by the Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar
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Latest update on the blockade imposed on the State of Qatar
Organizations…
3 years 5 months ago
Press Conference UNICEF
02 March 2018
Press Conference Announcement
Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa
Title
Press Conference UNICEF
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Update on the situation of children in Syria
Organizations
UNICEF
3 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CONCLUDES CLUSTERED INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE ON ADEQUATE HOUSING AND FOREIGN DEBT
01 March 2018
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this morning concluded its clustered interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Leilani Farha, and with the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt on the full enjoyment of all human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky.
The dialogue started on Wednesday afternoon and a summary can be found here.
In the interactive discussion, numerous speakers praised the work of the two mandate holders. With regard to the effects of foreign debt, speakers raised concern about austerity measures and…
3 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DISCUSSES THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS WHILE COUNTERING TERRORISM, AND CULTURAL RIGHTS
01 March 2018
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this afternoon began a clustered interactive dialogue with Fionnuala Ni Aolain, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism, and with Karima Bennoune, Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights.
Presenting her report, Ms. Ni Aolain said that states of emergency had become synonyms of sustained and extensive human rights violations. The report documented how the proliferation of counter-terrorism practices across the globe after 11 September 2001…
3 years 5 months ago
Transcript of joint Press Stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, and UN Senior Advisor, Mr. Jan Egeland
01 March 2018
Press Conferences
SdeM: Thank you, it is true I will be very short - not because of lack of politeness but I have a meeting which has already started with three members of the Security Council - but I wanted to come here directly now.
As you can understand our focus is on the humanitarian situation, there is no question, and that’s why I will leave Jan Egeland here with you and he will be elaborating more on what we have been doing.
I would like to say three things. First of all I think the Security Council meeting yesterday spoke…
3 years 5 months ago
PRESIDENT OF THE CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT OUTLINES NEXT STEPS IN THE SETTING UP OF FIVE SUBSIDIARY BODIES
01 March 2018
Meeting Summaries
The Conference on Disarmament today heard a proposal by its President concerning next steps in the establishment of the five subsidiary bodies, with a view to progressively advance its substantive work.
The decision (CD/WP.605/Rev.2), adopted on 16 February, proposed the establishment of five subsidiary bodies: four bodies on agenda items one to four, and the fifth one on agenda items five, six and seven, and on emerging and other issues relevant to the substantive work of the Conference.
Ambassador Veronika Bard, President of the…
3 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AND ON TORTURE
01 March 2018
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting held a clustered interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Michel Forst, and with the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, Nils Melzer.
Presenting his report, Mr. Forst paid tribute to all human rights defenders who had been killed all over the world in the past several months. He noted that civil society was dynamic, resilient and determined worldwide, and that there had been a 12 per cent…
