Human Rights Council MIDDAY 19 June 2018 The Human Rights Council in a midday meeting held a clustered interactive dialogue with Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Independent Expert on human rights and...

Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 19 June 2018 The Human Rights Council this afternoon heard the presentation of reports by Agnes Callamard, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary...

Summary In her vision-setting report to the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur, Ms. Dubravka Šimonović, decided to address new challenges brought by online violence against women, including...

Agenda Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Geneva, 18 June 2018 Mr President, Excellencies...

Spanish GENEVA (18 June 2018) – The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Diego García-Sayán, has expressed concern that civil society has been excluded...

GENEVA (18 June 2018) – UN human rights experts* have made a fresh call to Iran to annul the death sentence imposed on Iranian Kurd Ramin Hossein Panahi, amid reports that he will be executed after...

GENEVA (18 June 2018) – States around the world must take urgent action to eradicate violence and discrimination against LGBT people, a UN expert has said in his first official address to the Human...

Human Rights Council OPENING RELEASE 18 June 2018 Hears from the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, and the...

Human Rights Council MORNING 18 June 2018 The Human Rights Council this morning held a clustered interactive dialogue with Victor Madrigal-Borloz, Independent Expert on protection against violence and...