3 years 9 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW WORKING GROUP TO HOLD TWENTY-EIGHTH SESSION IN GENEVA FROM 6 TO 17 NOVEMBER 2017
01 November 2017
Press Release
Working Group to Review the Human Rights Records in 14 States
The twenty-eighth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 6 to 17 November during which the next group of 14 States are scheduled to have their human rights records examined under this mechanism.
The group of States to be reviewed by the Universal Periodic Review Working Group during this session are (in order of scheduled review): Czechia, Argentina, Gabon, Ghana, Peru, Guatemala…
3 years 9 months ago
EXPERTS OF THE INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FACT FINDING MISSION ON MYANMAR CONCLUDE VISIT TO BANGLADESH
27 October 2017
Press Release
Dhaka / Bangladesh, 27 October 2017 (Issued as received) – Three United Nations human rights experts concluded their first fact finding mission in Bangladesh today “deeply disturbed” by accounts of killings, torture, rape, arson and aerial attacks reportedly perpetrated against the Rohingya community in Myanmar.
More than 600,000 Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar, have fled to Bangladesh since 25 August, when Myanmar forces began the so-called “clearance operations” following alleged armed attacks on security posts. More than half…
3 years 9 months ago
Briefing to the Security Council by Staffan de Mistura, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria
26 October 2017
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Monsieur le président [François Delattre, France], dear friends, ambassadors,
Let me update you on developments and lay out some of the plans that we have for the next round of the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva, and then brief you on some of the other potential initiatives.
We are seeing very significant developments in the fight against UN-proscribed terrorists in Syria. Raqqa has been liberated by the US-led coalition; Mayadeen by the Syrian government and its allies; and action continues to eliminate the remaining Daesh pockets in Deir…
3 years 9 months ago
Press Release from the Office of the United Nations Representative to the Geneva International Discussions
25 October 2017
Press Release
50th meeting of Gali Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism
Russian version
On 25 October 2017, the 50th meeting of the joint Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) was held in Gali town under the chairmanship of the United Nations with the participation of Georgian, Russian, Abkhaz and EUMM (European Union Monitoring Mission) representatives. It was held in a businesslike and rather constructive atmosphere. The overall security situation on the ground since the September 2017 meeting was assessed as calm and stable.…
3 years 10 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE EXAMINES THE REPORT OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
18 October 2017
Press Release
The Human Rights Committee this morning completed its consideration of the sixth periodic report of the Dominican Republic on its implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Presenting the report, Rhadys Abreu De Polanco, Director General for Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic, said that the constitutional reform of 26 January 2010 had expressly entrenched civil and political rights in the constitutional text and Dominican courts applied the provisions of the Covenant in their…
3 years 10 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL PRESIDENT APPOINTS HANNY MEGALLY OF EGYPT TO SERVE ON COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
13 October 2017
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Arabic versionGENEVA, 13 October 2017 (Issued as received) - The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Joaquín Alexander Maza Martelli of El Salvador, announced today the appointment of Hanny Megally of Egypt to serve as a member of the Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic.
Mr. Megally will join Paulo Sergio Pinheiro of Brazil and Karen Koning Abuzayd of the United States who were appointed to serve on the Commission shortly after it was created by the Council in August 2011 to investigate…
3 years 10 months ago
Press Communiqué of the Co-Chairs of the Geneva International Discussions
11 October 2017
Press Release
The 41st round of the Geneva International Discussions has just concluded.
In Working Group I dealing with security issues, the situation on the ground was extensively reviewed and assessed as relatively calm and stable. The participants continued discussions and consultations on the topic of non-use of force, including on the content of a joint statement. They agreed to continue consultations on this matter during the period leading up to the next round. The participants also touched upon several other issues, including detentions along the dividing lines, access to…
3 years 10 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONCLUDES SIXTY-SECOND SESSION
06 October 2017
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Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Colombia, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights closed its sixty-second session this morning after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Colombia, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation, as well as the annual report.
The Committee’s concluding observations and recommendations on the reports considered during the session will be available on the webpage of the…
3 years 10 months ago
COMMISSION CALLS ON BURUNDIAN GOVERNMENT TO PUT AN END TO SERIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
29 September 2017
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Geneva, 29 September 2017 (Issued as received) – The Commission of Inquiry on Burundi takes note of the decision of the United Nations Human Rights Council to extend its mandate for one year. The Commission calls on the Burundian government and United Nations Member States to make a firm commitment to fighting impunity and to put an immediate end to the serious human rights violations and abuses committed in Burundi, documented in its recent report.
“The extension of the mandate is not an end in itself. It is crucial that measures are taken…
3 years 10 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CONCLUDES THIRTY-SIXTH SESSION AFTER ADOPTING 33 RESOLUTIONS AND A PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT
29 September 2017
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Establishes a Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen, Creates an Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Accountability of Private Military and Security Companies, and Extends Mandates on Burundi, Myanmar, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Sudan and Somalia
The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its thirty-sixth regular session, during which it addressed a wide range of human rights issues with numerous human rights experts, working groups and investigative bodies, adopted the outcomes…
