The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its general debate on the global human rights update by Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and her updates on Nicaragua and Venezuela. The general debate started in previous meetings and summaries can be…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Human Rights Council (HRC), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the World…

  Concludes Enhanced Interactive Dialogue on the Human Rights Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic   The Human Rights Council this morning began a general debate on the global human rights update by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, and her updates…

  Begins Enhanced Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Human Rights Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic   The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue on the report of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar following…

  Hears High Commissioner’s Global Human Rights Update and Holds Enhanced Interactive Dialogue on Myanmar   The Human Rights Council this morning opened its forty-fifth regular session, hearing a global human rights update from Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner…

  The Committee on the Rights of the Child today opened its online limited eighty-fifth session.   Luis Ernesto Pedernera Reyna, Chairperson of the Committee, emphasised the exceptional nature of this limited online session due to the extraordinary circumstances of COVID-19, which had…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the hybrid briefing, which was also addressed by Spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the United Nations…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Meteorological…

  Le développement de nouvelles armes telles que les drones risque d’accroître la course aux armements, est-il souligné   La Conférence du désarmement a tenu ce matin une séance plénière publique consacrée aux nouvelles armes de destruction massive, au cours de laquelle de nombreuses…

  The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its forty-fifth regular session from 14 September to 6 October 2020 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. At the opening of the session at 10 a.m. on Monday, 14 September, Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights…