Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

40^th Meeting (PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO BE ASKED TO ADOPT PROTOCOL ON TORTURE CONVENTION,

SETTING UP INSPECTION REGIME FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF ITS TERMS

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

39^th Meeting (AM)

UN REFUGEE HIGH COMMISSIONER REPORTS DROP IN NUMBER OF PEOPLE NEEDING PROTECTION,

SAYS NEW APPROACH NEEDED TO IMPROVE COOPERATION, IN STATEMENT TO THIRD COMMITTEE

Also Describes 'Development Through Local Integration' Concept;

Suggests New Agreements Needed to Address Nexus Between Migration, Asylum

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

38^th Meeting (PM)

SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS REPORT TO THIRD COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS

IN BURUNDI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

37^th Meeting (AM)

IN THIRD COMMITTEE, SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS ON MYANMAR, SUDAN STRESS NEED

FOR HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH IN BUILDING SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

36^th Meeting (PM)

THIRD COMMITTEE DEBATES HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN IRAQ,

CAMBODIA, PALESTINIAN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

35^th Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS ON RELIGION, EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS, TORTURE

URGE THIRD COMMITTEE DELEGATES TO BUILD CULTURE OF DEMOCRACY

Need to Forge Dialogue Also Stressed to Eradicate Intolerance, Impunity

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

34^th Meeting (PM)

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

33^rd Meeting (AM)

'WE ALL KNOW, INSTINCTIVELY, WHEN RIGHTS ARE BEING VIOLATED,'

HIGH COMMISSIONER TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

32^nd Meeting (PM)

HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTING PROCESS NEEDS IMPROVEMENT, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD

Due mainly to a lack of resources, small developing States often faced tremendous difficulties in fulfilling their reporting obligations to international human rights treaty bodies, the representative of Australia told the General Assembly's Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural).

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

31^st Meeting (PM)

SECRETARIAT UNIT, VOLUNTARY FUND FOR PERMANENT INDIGENOUS FORUM

CALLED FOR IN DRAFT RESOLUTION APPROVED BY THIRD COMMITTEE

Also Approves Texts on Indigenous Decade, Older Women, Girl Child