The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this afternoon officially closed its eighteenth session and opened its nineteenth session, hearing an address by Mahamane Cissé-Gouro, Director of the Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human…

  The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this afternoon closed its twenty-third virtual session. Amalia Gamio Rios, Rapporteur of the Committee, presenting a summary of the draft report of the twenty-third session of the Committee, said the Committee, among others, had examined…

  The Conference on Disarmament this afternoon held the last plenary meeting under the presidency of Bangladesh, during which it heard statements by Austria, United Kingdom, Mexico, Syria, Iran and Belarus. In the discussion, some speakers said it was in the shared interest of all States to…

Observes Minute of Silence to Pay Tribute to Victims of the Explosion in Lebanon and of the COVID-19 Pandemic     The Conference on Disarmament held a plenary meeting this morning under the presidency of Bangladesh, during which it heard a statement by Tatiana Valovaya, Secretary-General of the…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon closed its virtual one hundred and first session. Rita Izsák-Ndiaye, Committee Rapporteur, summing up the activities of the Committee during the session, said that in the context of the Committee’s early warning and urgent…

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

  Adopts General Comment on the Right of Peaceful Assembly   The Human Rights Committee this afternoon closed its one hundred and twenty-ninth session, it first ever held online. During the session, the Committee notably adopted its General Comment on article 21 (right of peaceful assembly) of…

  Extends Mandates on Eritrea, Education, Extrajudicial Executions, Trafficking in Persons, Leprosy, Judges and Lawyers, Persons with Disabilities, International Solidarity, Extreme Poverty, Belarus, and on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises   The Human Rights Council…

  The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted four resolutions dealing with the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests ; the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic ; the Social Forum ; and the contribution of respect for all human rights and…

  The Human Rights Council this morning adopted six resolutions in which it, among other actions, extended the mandates of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, and of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business…