The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its seventy-fifth session from 30 April to 2 May 2013 under the Presidency of Ambassador Peter Woolcott (Permanent Representative of Australia). Delegations from Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia will address the...

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Colombia, Bolivia and Azerbaijan The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today concluded its eighteenth session after adopting its concluding observations and...

The United Nations Compensation Commission today made available $1.13 billion to the Government of the State of Kuwait towards the Commission’s remaining claim with an outstanding balance. With this payment, the Compensation Commission has paid out $41.2 billion of its total awarded amount of $52.4...

Adopts Concluding Observations on Report of Paraguay The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded its ninth session, adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the initial report of Paraguay. In closing remarks, Maria Soledad Cisternas Reyes, the...

Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Uruguay and France The Committee on Enforced Disappearances closed its fourth session this afternoon, adopting its annual report to the General Assembly and agreeing its concluding observations and recommendations on the initial reports of Uruguay and...

The sixteenth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 22 April to 3 May during which the next group of 14 States are scheduled to have their human rights records examined under this mechanism. The group of States to be...

Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Paraguay, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, Angola, Macao Special Administrative Region of China and Peru The Human Rights Committee today concluded its one hundredth and seventh session after adopting its concluding observations and...

The Co-Chairs of the Geneva International Discussions gave a press conference this afternoon at the end of the twenty-third round of the Discussions. PHILIPPE LEFORT, European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus and for the crisis in Georgia, reading out the joint press communiqué,...

The Human Rights Council concluded its twenty-second regular session this afternoon after adopting two decisions, two Presidential statements, and 35 resolutions on a wide range of issues. In its resolutions, among others, the Council established a Commission of Inquiry on the Democratic People's...

The Human Rights Council at a midday meeting today held a clustered interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the right to food and the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living. Introducing his report, Olivier de Schutter,...