The seventeenth session of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee will take place from 8 to 12 August 2016 in Room XX at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. During the session, the Committee will continue its discussions on thematic studies requested by the Council, including on unaccompanied…

Statement by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic GENEVA, 3 August 2016 -- Two years ago today, in the early hours of 3 August 2014, ISIS fighters left their bases and brutally attacked the Yazidis of Sinjar, a distinct religious group whose beliefs and…

Michele Zaccheo, Chief, Radio and Television Section, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization and the International Organization…

Michele Zaccheo, Chief, Radio and Television Section, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration and the United…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the International…

Adopts Concluding Observations on the Reports of the Philippines, Myanmar, France, Albania, Turkey, Uruguay, Mali and Trinidad and Tobago The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concluded its sixty-fourth session this afternoon, after adopting its concluding observations…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization, the…

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

Adopts Concluding Observations on Argentina, Burkina Faso, Denmark, Ecuador, Ghana, Kazakhstan and Kuwait, Also Discusses Reparations and Remedies The Human Rights Committee today concluded its one hundred and seventeenth session after adopting concluding observations on the reports of Argentina…