The Human Rights Council today concluded its Special Session, on “The Support of the Human Rights Council to the Recovery Process in Haiti after the Earthquake of January 12, 2010: a Human Rights...

GENEVA (28 January 2010) – The UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, Dr. Shamsul Bari, issued a strong warning on the security, human rights and humanitarian situation in...

28 January 2010 The Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women has considered the combined sixth and seventh periodic report of Egypt on how that country implements the...

28 January 2010 Opinion piece by Navi Pillay United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights When Afghan President Hamid Karzai and international leaders meet in London today to muster international...

Mr. President, Distinguished Members of the Human Rights Council, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I want to thank the President and the Members of the Human Rights Council for convening this...

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this morning discussed an initial working paper on the rights of older persons. Chinsung Chung, the Committee Expert tasked by the Advisory Committee to...

The Human Rights Council this morning opened a Special Session on “The Support of the Human Rights Council to the Recovery Process in Haiti after the Earthquake of January 12, 2010: a Human Rights...

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this afternoon discussed a preliminary report of the drafting group on the right to food on the issue of discrimination in the context of the right to food...

The Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women has considered the fifth periodic report of the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles and the Netherlands Aruba on how...

The Human Rights Council this afternoon continued its Special Session on “The Support of the Human Rights Council to the Recovery Process in Haiti after the Earthquake of January 12, 2010: a Human...