The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning opened its one-hundred and fifth session, during which it will review anti-discrimination efforts by Chile, Denmark, Singapore, Switzerland and Thailand. The Committee heard an address by Mahamane Cissé-Gouro, Director…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today closed its eightieth session after adopting concluding observations on the reports of Ecuador, Egypt, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Russian Federation, South Africa, South Sudan, Sweden and Yemen, which were…

  Au cours du dialogue que le Comité contre la torture a noué, hier et aujourd’hui, avec la délégation kirghize venue présenter son rapport au titre de la Convention contre la torture et autres peines ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou dégradants, la volonté manifeste du Kirghizistan de…

  Le Comité contre la torture a examiné, hier et aujourd’hui, au Palais Wilson de Genève, le huitième rapport périodique de la Suède sur l’application de la Convention contre la torture et autres peines ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou dégradants. Ouvrant le débat, un membre du Comité a…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, the United Nations Conference on Trade and…

The Committee against Torture this morning opened its seventy-second session, electing a new Chair and Bureau, hearing new Committee Experts orally confirm their solemn declaration, adopting its agenda for the session, and hearing a statement by Mahamane Cisse-Gouro, Director of the Human Rights…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today concluded its consideration of the fifth periodic report of South Africa, with Committee Experts commending South Africa’s strong political will to support women’s rights and asking about efforts to mitigate gender-based…

  The Human Rights Council today adopted a resolution in which it condemned in the strongest possible terms the military takeover on 25 October 2021 in Sudan and requested the High Commissioner for Human Rights to designate without delay an Expert on Human Rights in Sudan to monitor the…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Human Rights Council, the World Food Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization,…