The Human Rights Council today adopted a resolution in which it deplored the removal of the Government elected by the people of Myanmar in the general election held on 8 November 2020, and the suspension of mandates of members of all parliaments, and called for the restoration of the…

  The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today opened its remote sixty-ninth session, hearing opening remarks by Peggy Hicks, Director of the Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for…

  The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a resolution in which it called urgently for the immediate and unconditional release of all persons arbitrarily detained in Myanmar, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint and others, and the lifting of the state…

  « Un revers cinglant pour ce pays, après une décennie de progrès dans sa transition démocratique » : c’est ainsi que la prise de pouvoir par l'armée du Myanmar, au début de ce mois, a été analysée ce matin par la Haute-Commissaire adjointe aux droits de l’homme, Mme Nada Al-Nashif, devant…

  The Conference on Disarmament this morning continued to hear statements on the revised draft package on a programme of work for 2021 but did not reach consensus on it.   Ambassador Marc Pecsteen of Belgium, President of the Conference on Disarmament, introducing the revised proposal which…

  The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon closed its online limited eighty-sixth session, which started on 18 January. Luis Ernesto Pedernera Reyna, Chairperson of the Committee, said that this online session had been particularly difficult because of technical issues, as…

  La Conférence du désarmement a poursuivi, cet après-midi, l’examen de la proposition révisée de « paquet » de documents contenant un projet de programme de travail soumise par le Président de la Conférence, l’Ambassadeur Marc Pecsteen de la Belgique. Comme pendant la séance de ce matin,…

  The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard statements by the United States, the Russian Federation and more than 20 countries on the extension of the New START Treaty, and then discussed the Presidency’s revised draft package on the 2021 programme of work of the Conference. The…

  The Conference on Disarmament this afternoon heard general statements by Switzerland, Russian Federation and Nigeria, and then began discussing the Presidency’s draft package on the 2021 programme of work of the Conference. In the general statements, speakers urged the Russian Federation…

  The Conference on Disarmament this morning held a plenary meeting under the Presidency of Ambassador Marc Pecsteen of Belgium, hearing general statements by South Africa, Cuba, Iran, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Ukraine and Sri Lanka. At the beginning of the meeting, as…