The Human Rights Committee today concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Zimbabwe on how it implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.  Committee Experts congratulated the State for passing a law that officially abolished the…

The Human Rights Committee today concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Burkina Faso on how it implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, with Committee Experts commending electoral quotas promoting women’s representation, while…

 Le Comité des droits des personnes handicapées (CRPD, selon l’acronyme anglais) a achevé ce matin l’examen, entamé mardi dernier, du rapport soumis par les Tuvalu au titre de la Convention relative aux droits des personnes handicapées.Cet examen s’est déroulé, de manière exceptionnelle, en l’…

 Le Comité des droits des personnes handicapées (CRPD, selon l’acronyme anglais) a examiné aujourd’hui le rapport soumis par la République dominicaine au titre de la Convention relative aux droits des personnes handicapées.Au cours du dialogue noué entre les experts membres du Comité et la…

The Human Rights Committee today concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Montenegro on how it implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.  Committee Experts commended the State for its measures preventing violence against women,…

Six New Committee Members Make Solemn DeclarationThe Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today opened its thirty-second session, during which it will review the reports of Canada, Dominican Republic, European Union, Palau, Tuvalu and Viet Nam. Andrea Ori, Chief of the Groups…

Committee Elects New Chairperson and Bureau, Five New Members Make Solemn DeclarationThe Human Right Committee this morning opened its one hundred and forty-third session, during which it will examine the reports of Albania, Burkina Faso, Haiti, Mongolia, Montenegro and Zimbabwe on their…

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon concluded its seventy-seventhsession after adopting concluding observationson the reports of Croatia, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda and the United Kingdom under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights .The…

 The Human Rights Council this morning opened its fifty-eighth regular session, hearing statements from the President of the General Assembly, the United Nations Secretary-General, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today closed its ninetieth session after adopting concluding observations on the reports of Belarus, Belize, Congo, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Nepal and Sri Lanka, and on the exceptional report of the Democratic Republic of the Congo…