The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon concluded its one hundredth session after adopting concluding observations on the periodic reports under the Convention on the Rights of the Child of Colombia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan and Spain, and on the initial…

 The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon held its seventeenth informal meeting with States, marking the Committee’s jubilee one hundredth session and discussing topics related to the Committee’s communications and inquiry procedures, general comments, its work on artificial…

 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined sixth and seventh periodic report of Ethiopia under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with Committee Experts commending the State party on its new 2025 law on education, which among…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held its thirty-ninth special session on the deteriorating human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, adopting a resolution in which it extended the mandate of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran for two years, and the…

 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined second to fourth periodic report of Malaysia under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with Committee Experts commending the State party on progress achieved in maternal and infant…

 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the seventh periodic report of Spain under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with Committee Experts commending the State party on recent legislation that comprehensively protected children and…

 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined sixth and seventh periodic report of Colombia under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with Committee Experts commending the State party’s progress on child-focused climate action,…

The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a special session to address the deteriorating human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran on Friday, 23 January 2026.The special session will take place in the Assembly Hall at the Palais des Nations in Geneva starting 2 p.m. (GMT+1).…

 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the sixth and seventh combined periodic report of Pakistan under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its initial report under the Optional Protocol on the sale of children.  Committee…

 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the sixth and seventh combined periodic report of Ghana under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with Committee Experts commending the State party on holding the Children’s Model Summit of the…