The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a resolution on the human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic in which it established a mandate of a Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic. The resolution came at the end of a Special Session, the…

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on Friday, 2 December “to examine the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic in the light of the report of the Commission of Inquiry”. The request for the Special Session was made by the European Union this morning and was signed…

The Human Rights Council today briefly resumed its suspended eighteenth session to nominate Mutama Ruteere (Kenya) as the new Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. Mr. Ruteere has a strong human rights background with…

Creates Two New Mandates on Promotion of a Democratic International Order and on Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-recurrence The Human Rights Council concluded its eighteenth regular session this afternoon after adopting more than 30 resolutions and decisions and two…

Seventeen Countries Will Have Their Human Rights Records Examined Seventeen States will have their human rights records examined during the twelfth session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group to be held in Geneva from 3 to 14 October. These countries are (in…

The President of the Human Rights Council, Laura Dupuy Lasserre today appointed three high-level experts as members of the Commission of Inquiry to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law since March 2011 in the Syrian Arab Republic, as mandated by the Human Rights…

The Human Rights Council will hold its eighteenth regular session from 12 to 30 September at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. On the morning of Monday, 12 September, the Council will hear an update by Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to be followed by a general…

Adopts resolution that requires the dispatch of a commission of inquiryAdopts resolution that requires the dispatch of a commission of inquiry The Human Rights Council concluded its seventeenth Special Session, which was convened yesterday and was devoted to “the situation of human rights in the…

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on "The situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic” on Monday, 22 August starting at 11:30 a.m. in Room XX of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. This will be the second Special Session the Council has held on Syria this year, the first…

Adopts 29 Resolutions, Creates Mandate on Côte d'Ivoire, Adopts the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure and Extends Mandate of the Commission of Inquiry on Libya and Appoints New Special Procedures Mandates Holders The Human Rights Council…