Summary In the present report, the Special Rapporteur reviews the role of equity and inclusion in strengthening the right to education, in particular in the context of achieving the Sustainable...

AFTERNOON Establishes Working Group to Elaborate a Regulatory Framework on Private Military and Security Companies, Extends Mandates on an Equitable International Order, Enforced Disappearances, Truth...

United Nations International Day of Older Persons, Sunday 1 October, 2017 GENEVA (29 September 2017) – The UN Independent Expert on older people’s rights, Rosa Kornfeld-Matte, is marking the...

GENEVA (29 September 2017) – UN human rights expert Baskut Tuncak will visit Denmark from 2 to 13 October to assess the country’s human rights record in relation to the environmentally sound...

MORNING Adopts Five Resolutions, including on Syria, the Administration of Justice, the Question of the Death Penalty and Conscientious Objection to Military Service GENEVA (29 September 2017) - The...

French GENEVA (29 September 2017) - The Commission of Inquiry on Burundi takes note of the decision of the United Nations Human Rights Council to extend its mandate for one year. The Commission calls...

MIDDAY Extends Mandate of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar GENEVA (29 September 2017) - The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting adopted a resolution in which it...

Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Cyprus, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Denmark, Ecuador, Guinea, Republic of Moldova, Tajikistan, and Vanuatu GENEVA (29 September 2017) - The...

AFTERNOON Closes its Thirty-Sixth Regular Session GENEVA (29 September 2017) - The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a Presidential Statement and 11 resolutions in which it called for the...