Mohammed Ayat, Chairperson of the Committee, said the Committee had met on 22 occasions during the session, which started on 7 September. The Committee had adopted lists of issues for the Czech Republic, Greece and Niger, as well as a list of issues in the absence of a report for Mali. It had…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon closed its virtual one hundred and second session. Yanduan Li, Committee Chairperson, said the Committee had finalized and adopted General Recommendation n° 36 on preventing and combatting racial profiling. Rita Izsák-…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon opened its one hundred and second session online, hearing statements from Simon Walker, Chief of the Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for…

  The Human Rights Committee this afternoon closed its one hundred and thirtieth session, which it held remotely. Ahmed Amin Fathalla, Committee Chairperson, said the Committee’s second online session had been very productive, despite the technical challenges of an online platform and the…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon concluded its seventy-seventh session, which it held remotely. The Committee adopted its report for the session, presented by Committee Rapporteur Lia Nadaraia, and the provisional agenda for the seventy-eighth…

  The Human Rights Committee this afternoon adopted progress reports by the Special Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations and by the Special Rapporteur on follow-up to views. According to the Committee’s procedure, the Committee selects a minimum of two and maximum of four…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today held an online meeting during which it heard from two of its members as well as a joint statement by non-governmental organizations. Rhoda Reddock, Committee Member and Chairperson of the Pre-sessional Working Group for the…

  The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, under the Vice-Presidency of Belgium, concluded its eighty-seventh session today. Delegations from Iraq and Kuwait addressed the fifteen-member Governing Council at its opening plenary meeting. The Governing Council…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its seventy-seventh online session. It heard a statement by Mahamane Cissé-Gouro, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch, Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division, Office of the United Nations High…

  The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon concluded its virtual sixty-eighth session. In his concluding remarks, Renato Zerbini Ribeiro Leão, Committee Chairperson, noting that this had been a busy session and the first one held virtually, said the consideration of…