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Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination opens one hundred and second session online

4 years 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination opens one hundred and second session online 16 November 2020 Meeting Summaries   The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon opened its one hundred and second session online, hearing statements from Simon Walker, Chief of the Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section at the Office of the United Nations High…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE

4 years 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE 13 November 2020 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Organization for Migration and the World Food Programme. Ethiopia –…

New Permanent Observer of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

4 years 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home New Permanent Observer of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States 10 November 2020 Presentation of Credentials   Stephen Fevrier, the new Permanent Observer of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his letter of nomination to Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Mr. Fevrier had been serving as…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE

4 years 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE 10 November 2020 UN Geneva Press Briefing Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International…

New Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

4 years 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home New Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva 10 November 2020 Presentation of Credentials   C. A. Chandraprema, the new Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to…

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CLOSES ITS ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTIETH SESSION

4 years 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CLOSES ITS ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTIETH SESSION 06 November 2020 Meeting Summaries   The Human Rights Committee this afternoon closed its one hundred and thirtieth session, which it held remotely. Ahmed Amin Fathalla, Committee Chairperson, said the Committee’s second online session had been very productive, despite the technical challenges of an online platform and the membership location time difference ranging 14 hours across the continents.…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE

4 years 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE 06 November 2020 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by spokespersons and representatives of the World Food Programme, the Food and Agricultural Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the International Organization for Migration, the International Telecommunications Union, and the…

COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONCLUDES ITS REMOTE SEVENTY-SEVENTH SESSION

4 years 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONCLUDES ITS REMOTE SEVENTY-SEVENTH SESSION 05 November 2020 Meeting Summaries   The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon concluded its seventy-seventh session, which it held remotely. The Committee adopted its report for the session, presented by Committee Rapporteur Lia Nadaraia, and the provisional agenda for the…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

4 years 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 03 November 2020 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by spokespersons for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Universal Periodic Reviews Alessandra Vellucci, on behalf of the Human Rights Council, said that the Human Rights Council’s…

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE ADOPTS PROGRESS REPORTS ON FOLLOW-UP TO ITS CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS AND ON FOLLOW-UP TO VIEWS

4 years 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE ADOPTS PROGRESS REPORTS ON FOLLOW-UP TO ITS CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS AND ON FOLLOW-UP TO VIEWS 30 October 2020 Meeting Summaries   The Human Rights Committee this afternoon adopted progress reports by the Special Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations and by the Special Rapporteur on follow-up to views. According to the Committee’s procedure, the Committee selects a minimum of two and maximum of four recommendations, termed the…