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A recent Brazilian Supreme Court ruling in favour of a case brought by Indigenous Peoples to reject time restrictions on claiming rights to their ancestral land is very encouraging. UNTV CH

Comentando a recente decisão do Supremo Tribunal Federal do Brasil contra os esforços para impor um limite de tempo para a demarcação de terras indígenas, a porta-voz de Direitos Humanos, Marta Hurtado disse, “a recente decisão do Supremo Tribunal Federal do Brasil a favor de um caso apresentado por povos indígenas para rejeitar restrições temporais na reivindicação de direitos às suas terras ancestrais é muito encorajadora.” UNIFEED

Top UN-appointed independent rights experts maintained at the UN Human Rights Council that serious international crimes continue to be inflicted against the people in Myanmar by the country’s military junta and affiliate militias, while armed conflict has intensified substantially. UNTV CH

History Is at Risk of Repeating, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Tells Security Council, Urging Accountability for New Crimes in Darfur.

Noon Briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Briefing by Paulina Kubiak, Spokesperson for the President of the 77th Session of the General Assembly.

The Security Council is scheduled to hold its semi-annual debate on the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT). The IRMCT's president, Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, and its prosecutor, Serge Brammertz, are expected to brief.

Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, said that it is a “watershed moment in the life of the Mechanism and for international criminal justice” that “in-court proceedings are all but concluded. The Mechanism only has the Kabuga case on its docket in this respect, with its future currently unclear.” UNIFEED

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.