Rolando Gómez, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by representatives and spokespersons of the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning opened its one hundred and ninth session in Geneva, during which it will review anti-discrimination efforts by Argentina, Niger, Philippines, Portugal, Russian Federation and Tajikistan. The Committee heard from the…

  The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families this afternoon concluded its thirty-sixth session after adopting concluding observations on the reports of El Salvador, Morocco, Nigeria and the Philippines. The concluding observations will…

Dr Raman Velayudhan, Unit Head, Global Program on control of Neglected Tropical Diseases coordinating dengue and arbovirus initiative Dr Diana Rojas Alvarez, Technical Lead, Zika and chikungunya and co-Lead of the Global arbovirus initiative

  The Human Rights Council today concluded its fifty-second regular session after adopting 43 resolutions, extending 19 thematic and country-specific mandates, and appointing 10 Special Procedure mandate holders. The Council extended for a period of three years the mandates of the Special…

  Le Conseil des droits de l’homme a achevé cet après-midi les travaux de sa cinquante-deuxième session en adoptant treize résolutions, dont six ont fait l’objet d’un vote. Le Conseil a également nommé quatre membres du Mécanisme d'experts sur le droit au développement ; deux membres du…

Rolando Gomez, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons from the Human Rights Council and the World Health Organization. Human Rights Council update Pascal Sim for…

  The Human Rights Council this morning adopted eight resolutions, extending mandates on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, Iran, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Belarus, and Syria. Other resolutions adopted concerned the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable…

Carmen Rosa Villa Quintana, Chair of the Committee (Room B-128) Barbara Lochbihler, Vice Chair of the Committee (Room B-128) Mohammed Ayat, Vice Chair of the Committee (online)

  The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted 22 resolutions, extending mandates on South Sudan, Nicaragua, human rights defenders, minority issues, torture, freedom of opinion and expression, adequate housing, foreign debt, and migrants. The Council also adopted resolutions on the human…