The President of the Human Rights Council, Luis Alfonso De Alba, has appointed Christine Chinkin of the United Kingdom as a member of the high-level fact-finding mission established by the Council at its special session of 15 November in connection with the Israeli military operations in Beit…

The Human Rights Council will hold its fourth special session on Tuesday, 12 December on the situation of human rights in Darfur. The special session is being convened following a request by the Ambassador of Finland and has been signed by 33 Member States. The request for the special session…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the United Nations…

Marie Heuzé, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Meteorological Organization, the Office for the…

In Presidential Statement, Council Postpones Twenty Draft Texts for Consideration at Later Sessions The Human Rights Council today concluded its second session in which it adopted 18 texts, including on human rights and access to water, extreme poverty, the occupied Syrian Golan, the right to…

Jan Egeland held his last press conference this morning in Geneva in his capacity as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, a post to which he was appointed in 2003. He will be stepping down next month. He gave an overview of the worldwide humanitarian…

Marie Heuzé, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons for the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Food Programme, the UN Refugee Agency, the United Nations…

Moussa Bocar Ly, the new Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Ly has been simultaneously serving,…

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of the Netherlands, El Salvador, Tajikistan, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concluded today its three-week autumn session by adopting its concluding observations on the reports…

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Tajikistan, Mexico, Burundi, Russian Federation, South Africa, Guyana and Hungary The Committee against Torture today concluded its three-week fall session and issued its concluding observations and recommendations on reports from Tajikistan, Mexico,…