11 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL BEGINS GENERAL DEBATE ON THE HIGH COMMISSIONER’S GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE, AND HER UPDATES ON NICARAGUA AND VENEZUELA
15 September 2020
Meeting Summaries
Concludes Enhanced Interactive Dialogue on the Human Rights Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Human Rights Council this morning began a general debate on the global human rights update by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, and her updates on Nicaragua and Venezuela.
Ms. Bachelet presented her global human rights update and her updates on Nicaragua and Venezuela on Monday, 14 September, and a summary can be found here.
Nicaragua…
11 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE WITH THE INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIVE MECHANISM FOR MYANMAR
14 September 2020
Meeting Summaries
Begins Enhanced Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Human Rights Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue on the report of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar following a presentation by its Head, Nicholas Koumjian.
Speaking during the interactive discussion were the European Union, Pakistan, Jordan, Liechtenstein, Canada, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Austria, Switzerland, Venezuela, Malaysia, Australia…
11 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL OPENS FORTY-FIFTH REGULAR SESSION, DECIDES TO HOLD AN URGENT DEBATE ON BELARUS
14 September 2020
Meeting Summaries
Hears High Commissioner’s Global Human Rights Update and Holds Enhanced Interactive Dialogue on Myanmar
The Human Rights Council this morning opened its forty-fifth regular session, hearing a global human rights update from Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as separate updates on the human rights situations in Nicaragua and Venezuela.
The Council approved by a vote Germany’s request on behalf of the European Union to hold an urgent debate on the “situation of human…
11 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD OPENS ONLINE LIMITED EIGHTY-FIFTH SESSION
14 September 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today opened its online limited eighty-fifth session.
Luis Ernesto Pedernera Reyna, Chairperson of the Committee, emphasised the exceptional nature of this limited online session due to the extraordinary circumstances of COVID-19, which had impacted all lives. There was also the financial crisis that all treaty bodies were experiencing and that had made it very difficult for them to fulfil their mandates. Despite the crisis, the Committee had continued to work, including 24 work days spent discussing the general…
11 months 1 week ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HOLDS THEMATIC PLENARY DISCUSSION ON NEW WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
08 September 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Conference on Disarmament this morning held a thematic plenary discussion on items 5, 6 and 7 of its agenda, new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons, radiological weapons ; comprehensive programme of disarmament ; and transparency in armaments.
Ambassador Yury Ambrazevich of Belarus, the President of the Conference, said that the Conference today would discuss its agenda items 5, 6 and 7 and introduced the panellists.
Renata Dwan, Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, said…
11 months 1 week ago
COMMITTEE ON ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES OFFICIALLY CLOSES EIGHTEENTH SESSION AND OPENS NINETEENTH SESSION
07 September 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this afternoon officially closed its eighteenth session and opened its nineteenth session, hearing an address by Mahamane Cissé-Gouro, Director of the Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The Committee opened its virtual eighteenth session on 4 May, becoming the first of the human rights treaty bodies to hold a session online because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The nineteenth session will be held from 7 to 25 September. On…
11 months 2 weeks ago
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES CLOSES TWENTY-THIRD VIRTUAL SESSION
04 September 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this afternoon closed its twenty-third virtual session.
Amalia Gamio Rios, Rapporteur of the Committee, presenting a summary of the draft report of the twenty-third session of the Committee, said the Committee, among others, had examined and adopted decisions on seven individual communications submitted for its consideration under the Optional Protocol ; adopted a follow-up report regarding views on individual communications ; established a working group to support deinstitutionalization…
1 year ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HOLDS LAST PLENARY MEETING UNDER THE PRESIDENCY OF BANGLADESH
13 August 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Conference on Disarmament this afternoon held the last plenary meeting under the presidency of Bangladesh, during which it heard statements by Austria, United Kingdom, Mexico, Syria, Iran and Belarus.
In the discussion, some speakers said it was in the shared interest of all States to prevent the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons. The United Nations Charter had come under attack because of reckless unilateralism, and the entire edifice of the post-war multilateralism was at risk, some speakers warned. The world was less…
1 year ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HEARS STATEMENT BY TATIANA VALOVAYA,SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CONFERENCE
13 August 2020
Meeting Summaries
Observes Minute of Silence to Pay Tribute to Victims of the Explosion in Lebanon and of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Conference on Disarmament held a plenary meeting this morning under the presidency of Bangladesh, during which it heard a statement by Tatiana Valovaya, Secretary-General of the Conference and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, as well as other statements.
At the beginning of the meeting, the Council observed a minute of silence to pay tribute to the innocent lives lost following the…
1 year ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CLOSES VIRTUAL ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST SESSION
07 August 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon closed its virtual one hundred and first session.
Rita Izsák-Ndiaye, Committee Rapporteur, summing up the activities of the Committee during the session, said that in the context of the Committee’s early warning and urgent action procedure, the Committee had adopted two statements, one in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on persons of concern under the Convention, and another on the situation of indigenous peoples in one State party to the Convention…
