Begins Interactive Dialogue with Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development   The Human Rights Council this morning held its biennial panel on the right to development, with a focus on strengthening international cooperation and solidarity in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. It also…

  Concludes Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development   The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation and concluded its interactive dialogue with the…

  The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive discussion with the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, and started an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the right to development. Speaking on contemporary forms…

  The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its general debate on the global human rights update by Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and her updates on Nicaragua and Venezuela. The general debate started in previous meetings and summaries can be found…

  Concludes Enhanced Interactive Dialogue on the Human Rights Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic   The Human Rights Council this morning began a general debate on the global human rights update by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, and her updates on…

  Begins Enhanced Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Human Rights Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic   The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue on the report of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar following a…

  Hears High Commissioner’s Global Human Rights Update and Holds Enhanced Interactive Dialogue on Myanmar   The Human Rights Council this morning opened its forty-fifth regular session, hearing a global human rights update from Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human…

  The Committee on the Rights of the Child today opened its online limited eighty-fifth session.   Luis Ernesto Pedernera Reyna, Chairperson of the Committee, emphasised the exceptional nature of this limited online session due to the extraordinary circumstances of COVID-19, which had impacted…

  The Conference on Disarmament this morning held a thematic plenary discussion on items 5, 6 and 7 of its agenda, new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons, radiological weapons ; comprehensive programme of disarmament ; and transparency in armaments. Ambassador…

  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…