Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by the Spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, World Food Programme, Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs, World Health Organization, International Labour Organization, United Nations Environment Programme, Human Rights Council, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, World Intellectual Property Organization, and International Trade Centre.Syria Rolando Gomez, for the Human Rights Council (HRC), informed that the Human…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by the Spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, World Food Programme, and the Human Rights Council.Syria Ms. Momal-Vanian said that the tripartite meeting between US Secretary of State Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and UN-AL Joint Special Representative Brahimi had started at 09:30 a.m. and it was not certain how long it would last and whether there would be a press conference. [The webcast of the press conference which was later held is…

Alessandra Vellucci, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by the Spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Refugee Agency, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Human Rights Council, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, International Organization for Migration and International Parliamentary Union. Syria - Children Marixie Mercado, for the United Nations Children’s Programme (…

Alessandra Vellucci, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by the Spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Refugee Agency, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and International Organization for Migration. Syria Marixie Mercado, for the United Nations Children’s Programme (UNICEF) gave an update on the education situation for Syrian and Syrian refugee children in neighbouring countries. Almost…

Alessandra Vellucci, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by the Spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Human Rights Council, World Food Programme, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and International Organization for Migration. Syria – Education Marixie Mercado, for the United Nations Children’s Programme (UNICEF) said that UNICEF was supporting a major push to make sure that crisis-…

Alessandra Vellucci, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by the Spokespersons for the World Food Programme, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, International Labour Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Refugee Agency, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, World Trade Organization and Inter-Parliamentary Union, as well as the World Economic Forum,Syria Jemini Pandya for the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) said that IPU had issued a…

Alessandra Vellucci, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by the Spokesperson for the Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria, United Nations Refugee Agency, World Food Programme, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and World Health Organization.Syria – Geneva II Khawla Mattar, Spokesperson for the Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of…

Alessandra Vellucci, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization and the International Organization for Migration, as well as the Spokesperson for the Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria.Syria Ms. Vellucci introduced Khawla Mattar,…

Alessandra Vellucci, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization and the International Organization for Migration.Egypt Elizabeth Throssell for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said the OHCHR remained alarmed…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization and the International Trade Centre. Syria Adrian Edwards for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said thousands of Syrians crossed into northern Iraq yesterday (15 August) in a sudden, massive movement.…