19 January 2012 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the combined third and fourth periodic report of Myanmar on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the...

18 January 2012 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the reports of Azerbaijan on how that country is implementing the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the...

ADDIS ABABA (18 January 2012) – The UN Human Rights office, in cooperation with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights convened a two day-meeting of the Special Procedures of the United...

18 January 2012 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the report of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on how that country is implementing the Optional Protocol to the Convention...

17 January 2012 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the fourth periodic report of Azerbaijan on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child...

16 January 2012 Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Members of the Committee, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the 59th session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child...

16 January 2012 The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning opened its fifty-ninth session, hearing an address by Kyung-wha Kang, the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights...

GENEVA (16 January 2012) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, on Monday welcomed the decision by President Thein Sein to grant another amnesty and...

Palais des Nations Room XXIII 10.00 – 10.30 am 16 January 2012 Distinguished experts, I would like to welcome you and congratulate you on your appointment to the Working Group on the issue of human...