Le Comité pour l’élimination de la discrimination raciale a examiné, hier après-midi et ce matin, le rapport présenté par l’Argentine au titre de la Convention internationale sur l’élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination raciale. Un expert membre du Comité a d’emblée relayé des…

  The Committee against Torture this morning opened its seventy-sixth session, which is being held in Geneva from 17 April to 12 May, during which it will review efforts by Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg and Slovakia to implement the provisions of the Convention against…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the World Meteorological Organization. Looming ration cuts for…

  De nombreux rapports indiquent que l’esclavage basé sur l’ascendance est toujours prévalant au Niger bien qu’il soit interdit depuis 2002 en vertu du Code pénal. Le phénomène persisterait encore chez certaines populations du Niger, notamment chez les Arabes, les Peuls, les Toubous et les…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth periodic report of the Russian Federation, with a Committee Expert expressing serious concern that incidents in the context of the armed conflict in…

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…