FIFTY-SECOND SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Geneva, Switzerland, 27 February-4 April 2023 The fifty-second session of the Human Rights Council will begin on Monday 27 February 2023 at the United Nations’ Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Journalists who have received media…

The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its fifty-second regular session from 27 February to 4 April 2023 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, starting with a high-level segment from 27 February to 2 March, when dignitaries representing more than 125 Member States will address the Council…

The Conference on Disarmament, the world's single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum, will hold the first public plenary of its 2023 session on Tuesday, 24 January. The 2023 session of the Conference on Disarmament will be divided up into three successive parts, from 23 January to 31 March…

  Excellencies, dear friends, Thank you very much for your welcome and thank you, dear President Schwab, for your kind words.  It is very good to be back in Davos, and once again in person.  Your theme perfectly sets out the dilemma of today’s world:  We need…

The Joint Inspection Unit concluded the second part of its Winter Session on 10 January 2023. In the first part of the Winter Session, the Inspectors elected Inspector Eileen A. Cronin (United States) as Chair and Inspector Carolina Fernandez-Opazo (Mexico) as Vice-Chair of the Unit for 2023. The…

Today, under the Presidency of Ireland, the Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission held its eighty-ninth and final session. The Commission was created in 1991 as a subsidiary organ of the Security Council with a mandate to process claims and pay compensation for losses and…

The Human Rights Council will hold a special session to address “the deteriorating human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran” on Thursday, 24 November. The special session will start at 10 a.m. in room XX at the Palais des Nations. The meeting is open to the media and will be webcast…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon closed its one hundred and seventh session in Geneva after adopting concluding observations on anti-discrimination efforts by Benin, Nicaragua, United States, Azerbaijan, Slovakia, Zimbabwe and Suriname.  Verene…

It is good to be back in Istanbul and I thank Minister of Defense Hulusi Akar and the Government of Türkiye for your warm welcome.  I thank you even more for your pivotal role in the Black Sea Grain Initiative. At the heart of this initiative is the Joint Coordination Centre which…

About 20 United Nations employees* from Geneva will join nearly 5,000 volunteers who will converge in the Goms Valley to interact with some 30,000 Swiss scouts attending the two-week summer camp, which is organized only once every 14 years. Some 1,000 Scouts will take part in the UN human rights…