The Committee against Torture this morning opened its sixty-seventh session, hearing a statement by Antti Korkeakivi, Chief of the Anti-Torture, Coordination and Funds Section, Human Rights Treaties Branch, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Representative of the Secretary-…

The Human Rights Committee this afternoon discussed and adopted a progress report by the Special Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations. Vasilka Sancin, Committee Expert and Special Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations a.i., presented the Committee’s assessments of…

Chitra Jeremiah, the new Permanent Representative of Nauru to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Olga Algayerová, the Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Jeremiah held various diplomatic and…

Adopts Concluding Observations on the Reports of Qatar, Mozambique, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Austria, Cabo Verde and Guyana The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concluded today its seventy-third session, during which it reviewed the reports of…

During the International Syria Support Group’s (ISSG) Humanitarian Task Force meeting Thursday, Senior Humanitarian Adviser Najat Rochdi renewed her call to member states to support the UN’s immediate humanitarian priorities. Rochdi highlighted that humanitarian needs are vast across Syria, an…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was attended by spokespersons for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria (OSE), the World…

The Human Rights Committee this morning continued the first reading of its draft General Comment number 37 on article 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the right of peaceful assembly. Christof Heyns, Committee Rapporteur for the draft General Comment, read out the…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was attended by spokespersons for the World Health Organization (UNICEF) and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). YemenRhéal LeBlanc, for the United…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today examined the ninth periodic report of Guyana on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Amna Ally, Minister of Social Protection of Guyana,…