The Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development this morning held two panel discussions on the role of business in realising the right to development in the age of mandatory human rights due diligence; and on access to food, food security, inequalities and the right to development.…

 Rolando Gómez, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service (UNIS) at Geneva, chaired a hybrid press briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner…

Riaz Hamidullah, the new Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Hamidullah had been serving as High…

The Human Rights Committee today concluded its consideration of the fifth periodic report of Jamaica on how it implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, with Committee Experts commending measures to combat corruption, and raising issues concerning…

The Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development this afternoon discussed a draft thematic study on peace and security and the right to development. Juana María Ibáñez Rivas, Chairperson of the Expert Mechanism, introducing conceptual and practical progress made in the latest version of the…

The Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development this morning opened its fourteenth session, hearing statements by the Chair of the Mechanism, the Vice-President of the Human Rights Council and the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights.  The Expert Mechanism then began a general debate…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today held an informal meeting with States parties and launched its general recommendation 41 on dismantling gender stereotypes and the unequal power relations that sustain them.  In opening remarks on the general…

 Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service at Geneva, chaired a hybrid press briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), the World Food Programme,…

 Le Comité des droits de l’homme a examiné, hier après-midi et ce matin, le sixième rapport périodique soumis par la République du Cameroun au titre du Pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques. Le rapport a été présenté par M. Salomon Eheth, Représentant permanent du…

 The Human Rights Committee today concluded its consideration of the fifth periodic report of Rwanda on how it implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Committee Experts welcomed the State party’s decriminalisation of defamation and other…