2 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HEARS FROM 17 DIGNITARIES AS IT CONTINUES ITS HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT
26 February 2019
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council during its midday meeting continued with its high-level segment, hearing addresses from 17 dignitaries who spoke about the shrinking space for civil society human rights violations across the world, and underlined the responsibility of the international community to protect universal rights and to hold Governments to account.
Didier Reynders, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign and European Affairs, and Defence of Belgium, said that for the past 70 years, sustainable peace had been achieved in numerous countries…
2 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS HIGH-LEVEL PANEL ON THE DEATH PENALTY, IN PARTICULAR WITH RESPECT TO THE RIGHTS TO NON-DISCRIMINATION AND EQUALITY
26 February 2019
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this morning held its biennial high-level panel discussion on the question of the death penalty, with a focus on human rights violations in the context of the death penalty, in particular with respect to the rights to non-discrimination and equality.
Coly Seck, President of the Human Rights Council, reminded that the Council was holding the biennial high-level panel on the question of the death penalty in line with its resolutions 26/2 and 36/17, when it decided to focus…
2 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HEARS FROM 22 DIGNITARIES AS IT CONTINUES ITS HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT
26 February 2019
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this afternoon continued with its high-level segment, hearing addresses from 22 dignitaries, who expressed concern at the plight of human rights worldwide and the multilateral order, and spoke about the coordination of international efforts to reinforce human rights, ways to reaffirm the Council as the platform for addressing human rights and strengthen its mechanisms, as well as about the need to defend multilateral institutions.
Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, spoke of the physical…
2 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL OPENS FORTIETH REGULAR SESSION
25 February 2019
Meeting Summaries
United Nations Secretary-General, President of the General Assembly, High Commissioner for Human Rights and Foreign Minister of Switzerland Address the Council
The Human Rights Council this morning opened its fortieth regular session, hearing addresses by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations; María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the United Nations General Assembly; Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Ignazio Cassis, Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland.
Opening the session, Coly Seck,…
2 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HEARS FROM 18 DIGNITARIES AS IT CONTINUES ITS HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT
25 February 2019
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council during its midday meeting continued with its high-level segment, hearing addresses from dignitaries from 18 countries, who spoke about human rights violations across the world and the deterioration of respect for human rights, the Council’s role in promoting human rights worldwide, as well as challenges that multilateralism had been facing, and the responsibility of States to address these problems through cooperation.
Anders Samuelsen, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark, lamented that human rights and liberal freedoms…
2 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL OPENS ITS HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT AND HEARS FROM 14 DIGNITARIES
25 February 2019
Meeting Summaries
President of Tunisia, Chairman of the African Union Commission, and the Prime Ministers of Yemen and Fiji Address the Council
The Human Rights Council this morning began its high-level segment, hearing addresses from dignitaries from 14 countries, who spoke about national efforts to promote and protect human rights, the importance of enhanced international cooperation in addressing current challenges, and human rights concerns in a number of countries and regions around the world.
Béji Caïd Essebsi, President of Tunisia, reminded that human rights were…
2 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS PANEL DISCUSSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS MAINSTREAMING IN THE LIGHT OF MULTILATERALISM
25 February 2019
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held its annual high-level panel discussion on human rights mainstreaming, with a focus on human rights in the light of multilateralism: opportunities, challenges and the way forward.
Opening the session, Coly Seck, President of the Human Rights Council, said that according to resolution 16/21, the Council was entrusted to ensure that human rights were taken into consideration in all activities. The Council had decided that the topic of this high-level panel would be human rights in the light…
2 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL TO HOLD ITS FORTIETH REGULAR SESSION FROM 25 FEBRUARY TO 22 MARCH 2019
21 February 2019
Press Release
The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its fortieth regular session from 25 February to 22 March 2019 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, 25 February under the presidency of Ambassador Coly Seck of Senegal, with key statements delivered by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet; the President of the United Nations General Assembly María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés;…
2 years 10 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CONCLUDES THIRTY-NINTH SESSION AFTER ADOPTING 23 RESOLUTIONS AND A PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT
28 September 2018
Press Release
Decides to Establish an Ongoing Independent Mechanism on the Most Serious International Crimes and Violations of International Law Committed in Myanmar since 2011; Adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas; Extends Mandates on Yemen, Burundi, Myanmar, Central African Republic, Sudan, and Somalia
The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its thirty-ninth regular session, during which it welcomed the new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle…
2 years 10 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADOPTS FIVE RESOLUTIONS, INCLUDING ON BURUNDI, SYRIA, AND ON THE RIGHTS OF PEASANTS
28 September 2018
Meeting Summaries
Extends the Mandate of the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi, Voices Deep Concern about Sexual Violence in Syria, and Adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas
The Human Rights Council this morning adopted five resolutions in which it extended the mandate of the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi for a year, expressed deep concern about sexual and gender-based violence in Syria, and adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working…
