Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 15 March 2010 Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights Presents Report on Human Rights Violations in Honduras Since the Coup d’état The Human Rights Council this...

MORNING 12 March 2010 Chairperson of Working Group on Optional Protocol to Convention on Rights of Child presents Report, Council Concludes Interactive Dialogue on Violence against Children The Human...

GENEVA (12 March 2010) – The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination called on the Nigerian authorities to tackle the underlying causes of the repeated outbreaks of ethnic and...

AFTERNOON 12 March 2010 The Human Rights Council this afternoon continued its general debate on the promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights...

ROUNDUP 12 March 2010 Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Argentina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Guatemala, Iceland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Monaco, the Netherlands, Panama and Slovakia The Committee on...

MORNING 11 March 2010 President of Timor-Leste Addresses the Human Rights Council The Human Rights Council this morning heard the Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders and the Special...

Final Press conference Opening Statement 11 March 2010 ROMA – This is my first visit to Italy as High Commissioner for Human Rights. I was initially invited by the President of the Human Rights...

AFTERNOON 11 March 2010 Concludes Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights Defenders and on the Freedom of Religion or Belief The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an...

Rome, 10 March 2010 “The right to freedom of religion today – sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” Excellencies, Mr. President of the Pontificia Università Lateranense, Faculty...

MORNING 10 March 2010 The Human Rights Council this morning began its annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child on the theme of the fight against sexual violence against children, holding a...