1 year 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HEARS FROM 17 DIGNITARIES AS IT CONTINUES ITS HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT
24 February 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council continued its high-level segment in a midday meeting, hearing addresses by 17 dignitaries, who outlined how their countries’ policies were aligned to human rights standards and discussed the pertinent challenges to global peace and security, including country specific situations that manifested gross human rights violations.
Speaking were Vadym Prystaiko, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Ukraine; Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France; Faisal Bin Farhan Alsaud, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Saudi…
1 year 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL OPENS FORTY-THIRD REGULAR SESSION
24 February 2020
Meeting Summaries
UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTÓNIO GUTERRES LAUNCHES HIS CALL TO ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
The Human Rights Council this morning opened its forty-third regular session, hearing from United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, the President of the United Nations General Assembly Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, and the Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland Ignazio Cassis.
Opening the session, Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger, President of the Human Rights Council, reminded that the Council’s work was…
1 year 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS ANNUAL HIGH-LEVEL PANEL DISCUSSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS MAINSTREAMING, FOCUSING ON CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
24 February 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held its annual high-level panel discussion on human rights mainstreaming, focusing on advancing the mainstreaming of children’s rights within the United Nations system through a child rights-based approach. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, President of the United Nations General Assembly, in a keynote statement, urged all Member States to take action to implement the recommendations of the Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, which had been mandated by General Assembly…
1 year 6 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL TO HOLD ITS FORTY-THIRD REGULAR SESSION ROM 24 FEBRUARY TO 20 MARCH 2020
19 February 2020
Press Release
The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its forty-third regular session from 24 February to 20 March 2020 in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
The session will open at 9 a.m. on Monday, 24 February under the presidency of Ambassador Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger of Austria. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, President of the General Assembly Tijani Muhammad-Bande, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, and the Federal Councillor and Head of…
1 year 10 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CLOSES FORTY-SECOND REGULAR SESSION, ADOPTS 38 TEXTS, ESTABLISHES A FACT-FINDING MISSION ON VENEZUELA AND AN EXPERT MECHANISM ON THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT
27 September 2019
Press Release
Renews Mandates on Yemen, Burundi, Somalia, Sudan, Central African Republic and Cambodia; Extends Eight Thematic Mandates
The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its forty-second regular session held in Geneva from 9 to 27 September after adopting 37 resolutions and a Presidential Statement. Among others, the Council established an independent international fact-finding mission to investigate extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary…
1 year 11 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL TO HOLD ITS FORTY-SECOND REGULAR SESSION FROM 9 TO 27 SEPTEMBER 2019 AT THE PALAIS DES NATIONS IN GENEVA
04 September 2019
Press Release
The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its forty-second regular session from 9 to 27 September 2019 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, will open the session at 9 a.m. on Monday, 9 September. She will update the Council on the situation of human rights worldwide and on the activities of her Office, and will address, inter alia, the human rights situation in Venezuela and the implementation of the recommendations made by the…
2 years 1 month ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE RIGHTS OF OLDER WOMEN AND THEIR ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
28 June 2019
Meeting Summaries
Hears Statements from Dignitaries from Cameroon, Austria and Azerbaijan
The Human Rights Council this morning held the second part of its annual discussion on the human rights of women, with a panel on the rights of older women and their economic empowerment. The Council also heard addresses by Mbella Mbella Lejeune, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cameroon, Alexander Schallenberg, Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of Austria, and Fuad Huseynov, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Affairs of Refugees…
2 years 1 month ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE ON EXTREME POVERTY AND ON INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS
28 June 2019
Meeting Summaries
Hears Address by Undersecretary for Special Concerns of the Philippines
The Human Rights Council today held a clustered interactive dialogue with Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, and Cecilia Jimenez, Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons. The Council also concluded the clustered interactive dialogue on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and on trafficking in persons, especially women and children.
The Council heard an address by Camilo G. Gudmalin…
2 years 1 month ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS PANEL DISCUSSION ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: CLIMATE ACTION, GOOD PRACTICES AND LESSONS LEARNED
28 June 2019
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a panel discussion women’s rights and climate change: climate action, good practices and lessons learned. Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that across the planet, the climate crisis was stripping people of their rights and identity, and even in some cases, their homes, countries and their lives. Within this context, there were a number of clear links between climate change and the effective enjoyment of women’s rights.…
2 years 1 month ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE WITH SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
27 June 2019
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a clustered interactive dialogue with Dubravka Šimonović, Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children.
Ms. Šimonović said that her thematic report analysed 25 years of the mandate, the current challenges, and the way forward. The global context of women’s rights was marked by a rise in various women’s movements across the world…
