The Conference on Disarmament this morning held a thematic discussion on agenda item 6 on a comprehensive programme of disarmament, as it met in the first plenary meeting under the Presidency of Canada. Ambassador Leslie Norton of Canada, President of the Conference on Disarmament,…

  Council Concludes Interactive Dialogue with High Commissioner for Human Rights on her Report on the Central Role of the State in Responding to Pandemics   The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker, the Special Rapporteur on the…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today opened its online seventy-ninth session, hearing a statement by Simon Walker Representative of the Secretary-General and Chief of Section One, Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division, Office of the High…

  The Human Rights Council this morning opened its forty-seventh regular session, hearing from Nazhat Shameem Khan, President of the Council, and Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, who presented an oral update on her annual report as well as a report on the…

  The Conference on Disarmament this morning held its last plenary meeting under the Presidency of Cameroon. Ambassador Salomon Eheth of Cameroon, outgoing President of the Conference on Disarmament, recalled that nine plenary meetings had been held under his Presidency, all of which had given…

  The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its forty-seventh regular session from 21 June to 13 July 2021 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The hybrid Council will be meeting in room XVIII with most statements delivered virtually. The session will open at 10 a.m. on Monday, 21 June…

  The Conference on Disarmament today held a thematic discussion on its agenda item 5 on new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons, including radiological weapons. Ambassador Salomon Eheth of Cameroon, President of the Conference on Disarmament, opening the thematic…

  Wang Yi, State Councillor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, today told the Conference on Disarmament that China has the most stable, consistent and predictable nuclear policy among all nuclear weapon States. The Minister said China was firmly committed to the path of peaceful…

  The Conference on Disarmament today held a thematic discussion on its agenda item 4 on effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons, or negative security assurances. Ambassador Salomon Eheth of Cameroon, President…

  The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon closed its eighty-seventh session after adopting concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Luxembourg and Tunisia under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Mikiko Otani, Committee Chairperson, said that there…