Session Devoted to Hearing Reports from Council’s Special Procedures The Human Rights Council will hold its second session from 18 September to 6 October 2006. The session will be devoted to hearing the reports of the special procedures of the Council, including Special Rapporteurs, Experts and…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard from speakers who welcomed the signing of a treaty on 8 September on the establishment of a nuclear weapons free zone in Central Asia by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Kazakhstan said the idea of the nuclear…

The Fifteenth Session of the Group of Governmental Experts of the States Parties to the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW) concluded on Wednesday,…

The two-day International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People this afternoon adopted a Plan of Action and concluded its annual meeting. The Plan of Action commits civil society organizations to ending the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and to…

The United Nations International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People opened its annual two-day session this morning, holding an opening meeting in which it heard addresses, including a message from the Secretary-General of the United Nations, followed by a plenary…

The 2006 United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament begins today at the United Nations Office at Geneva with the participation of young diplomats from 30 Member States of the United Nations. The programme will last for a period of almost ten weeks. Diplomats from the following 30…

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Estonia, Yemen, South Africa, Oman, Mongolia, Denmark, Norway and Ukraine The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its sixty-ninth session, issuing concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Estonia,…

The Human Rights Council will hold a special session on the situation in Lebanon on Friday, 11 August starting 10 a.m. in Room XX of the Palais des Nations. A note verbale from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said the President of the Human Rights Council, having consulted…

Adopts Final Conclusions and Recommendations on Reports of the Central African Republic, the United States and UNMIK The Human Rights Committee concluded today its eighty-seventh session, during which it considered and adopted concluding observations and recommendations on the reports submitted…

The United Nations Compensation Commission has made available today a total of $ 396,488,991.74 to four Governments for distribution to 31 successful claimants. Payment is being made in respect of six claims in category D (claims of individuals for damages above $100,000), six claims in category E…