8 months 3 weeks ago
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination closes virtual one hundred and second session
24 November 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon closed its virtual one hundred and second session.
Yanduan Li, Committee Chairperson, said the Committee had finalized and adopted General Recommendation n° 36 on preventing and combatting racial profiling.
Rita Izsák-Ndiaye, Committee Rapporteur, summing up the activities of the Committee during the session, said that the Committee had considered follow-up reports regarding China, Cuba, Guatemala, Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro and the Republic of Korea. In the…
9 months ago
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination opens one hundred and second session online
16 November 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon opened its one hundred and second session online, hearing statements from Simon Walker, Chief of the Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and several non-governmental organizations.
In his statement, Mr. Walker said that, unfortunately, many months after its appearance, the COVID-19 pandemic was far from being defeated. It continued to pose a number of human rights…
9 months 1 week ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CLOSES ITS ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTIETH SESSION
06 November 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee this afternoon closed its one hundred and thirtieth session, which it held remotely.
Ahmed Amin Fathalla, Committee Chairperson, said the Committee’s second online session had been very productive, despite the technical challenges of an online platform and the membership location time difference ranging 14 hours across the continents. Nothing could replace the in-person session and the Committee had missed, for the second time, one of the core tasks of its mandate, holding constructive dialogues with States parties.
The Committee had…
9 months 1 week ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONCLUDES ITS REMOTE SEVENTY-SEVENTH SESSION
05 November 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon concluded its seventy-seventh session, which it held remotely.
The Committee adopted its report for the session, presented by Committee Rapporteur Lia Nadaraia, and the provisional agenda for the seventy-eighth session.
In her concluding remarks, Hilary Gbedemah, Committee Chairperson, said that since the offset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Committee had had to adapt its working methods as well as its agendas to the new exigencies of working…
9 months 2 weeks ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE ADOPTS PROGRESS REPORTS ON FOLLOW-UP TO ITS CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS AND ON FOLLOW-UP TO VIEWS
30 October 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee this afternoon adopted progress reports by the Special Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations and by the Special Rapporteur on follow-up to views.
According to the Committee’s procedure, the Committee selects a minimum of two and maximum of four recommendations, termed the follow-up recommendations, to be included in the follow-up procedure; these recommendations are indicated in the Committee’s concluding observations issued to a State party following their review by the…
9 months 2 weeks ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN HOLDS ONLINE MEETING
29 October 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today held an online meeting during which it heard from two of its members as well as a joint statement by non-governmental organizations.
Rhoda Reddock, Committee Member and Chairperson of the Pre-sessional Working Group for the seventy-seventh session, said the Working Group had met from 2 to 6 March 2020 in Geneva. The Working Group had prepared lists of issues and questions with regard to the reports of Azerbaijan, Nicaragua, Senegal, South Africa and Yemen, in addition to lists of…
9 months 3 weeks ago
GOVERNING COUNCIL OF UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION COMMISSION CONCLUDES ITS EIGHTY-SEVENTH SESSION
28 October 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, under the Vice-Presidency of Belgium, concluded its eighty-seventh session today.
Delegations from Iraq and Kuwait addressed the fifteen-member Governing Council at its opening plenary meeting.
The Governing Council considered reports related to the work of the Commission since its last session in October 2019 on various matters including the current levels of income and the arrangements for ensuring continued deposits into the Commission’s Compensation Fund, payments…
9 months 3 weeks ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN OPENS SEVENTY-SEVENTH ONLINE SESSION
26 October 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its seventy-seventh online session. It heard a statement by Mahamane Cissé-Gouro, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch, Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee also adopted its agenda and organization of work.
Mr. Cissé-Gouro said that since the Committee’s last session in July, the COVID-19 pandemic had continued to impact women and girls disparately, often…
10 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONCLUDES VIRTUAL SIXTY-EIGHTH SESSION
16 October 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon concluded its virtual sixty-eighth session.
In his concluding remarks, Renato Zerbini Ribeiro Leão, Committee Chairperson, noting that this had been a busy session and the first one held virtually, said the consideration of all State party reports originally scheduled for this session had been postponed. The Committee had agreed that, even though it would have liked to privilege direct contact, it was absolutely necessary to proceed with its core monitoring mandate. The Committee…
10 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OPENS ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTIETH SESSION ONLINE
12 October 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee this afternoon opened its one hundred and thirtieth session in an online format, hearing a statement from Simon Walker, Chief of the Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee also adopted the agenda and programme of work for the session.
Ahmed Amin Fathalla, Committee Chairperson, noted that it was the second time that the Human Rights Committee was meeting online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He welcomed, David H. Moore who had…
