Ends General Debate on the Human Rights Situation in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories   The Human Rights Council this morning held a general debate on the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action.  At the beginning of the meeting, the Council concluded the general debate…

Holds General Debate on the Universal Periodic Review The Human Rights Council this afternoon heard the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights present reports of the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Palestine and other…

Council Decides to Hold an Urgent Debate on the Current Racially Inspired Human Rights Violations, Systemic Racism, Police Brutality and the Violence against Peaceful Protests on 17 June   The Human Rights Council this morning resumed its forty-third session, which was suspended on 13 March…

The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its resumed forty-third regular session, which was suspended on 13 March because of COVID-19, from 15 to 19 June at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will open around 11 a.m. on Monday, 15 June under the presidency of Ambassador…

The Committee on Enforced Disappearances opened its eighteenth session today in an online meeting, hearing from the Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Committee’s Chairperson, as well as the mother of a victim…

The Human Rights Council today held a virtual informal conversation on the human rights implications of the COVID-19 crisis with representatives of the Coordination Committee of Special Procedures mandate holders. The special procedures of the Human Rights Council are independent human rights…

The Human Rights Council this morning held its first ever virtual informal conversation with Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, on the implications of the COVID-19 crisis on human rights around the world. In her introductory remarks, Ambassador Elisabeth Tichy-…

Council Extends All Mandates and Mandated Activities that would otherwise Expire and Appoints 19 Special Procedure Mandate Holders The Human Rights Council this morning adopted the Universal Periodic Review outcome of Bosnia and Herzegovina and held a debate on the midterm review of the…

Starts second reading of draft General Comment on the right of peaceful assembly The Human Rights Committee today decided to suspend its one hundred and twenty-eighth session, in light of the COVID-19 situation. The Committee also initiated the second reading of draft General Comment No. 37 on…

The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting adopted the Universal Periodic Review outcomes of Fiji, San Marino, Iran, Angola and Kazakhstan. Nazhat Shameem Khan, Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said that human rights were a catalyst for transformative…