COVID-19 and tourism: Assessing the economic consequences Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Director, Division on International and Commodities, UNCTAD Ralf Peters, Chief of the Trade Information Section, Division on International Trade and Commodities, UNCTAD

  Starts Interactive Dialogue on the High Commissioner’s Annual Report and her Oral Update on the Human Rights Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic   The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the World Food Programme (WFP), the United…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the World Food Programme (WFP), the United…

  Le Conseil entend une déclaration de la Cheffe de l’exécutif de la Région administrative spéciale de Hong Kong concernant la nouvelle loi sur la sécurité nationale adoptée ce 30 juin   Il tient un dialogue renforcé sur la situation des droits de l’homme aux Philippines et entend…

  The Human Rights Committee this afternoon opened its one hundred and twenty-ninth session in an online format, hearing a statement from Ibrahim Salama, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch, Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division, Office of the United Nations High…

  This is the Committee’s First-Ever Remote Session   The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its seventy-sixth session, its first-ever held remotely. It heard a statement by Ibrahim Salama, Chief, Human Rights Treaties Branch, Human Rights…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives for the World Food Programme, the Human Rights Council, the World Meteorological Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian…

  The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its forty-fourth regular session from 30 June to 20 July 2020 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. During the session, the Council will review reports on a wide range of human rights issues and situations of concern and will engage in…

  Interrompue le 13 mars 2020 du fait de la pandémie de COVID-19, la session avait repris ses travaux à Genève depuis le 15 juin   À l’issue de cette session le Conseil a adopté 43 résolutions et décisions, dont l’une fait suite au débat urgent qu’il a tenu sur le racisme et les…