The United Nations Office at Geneva today held a Special Meeting to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The Special Meeting was organized in observance of General Assembly resolution 32/40 B of 2 December 1977. Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Under-Secretary-General…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Dominican Republic, Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Switzerland and Uruguay The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today concluded its forty-fifth session during which it examined measures taken by the Dominican Republic, the…

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Mongolia and Turkey The Committee against Torture concluded its forty-fifth session today, issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on reports from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia,…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, meeting under the Presidency of Ambassador Christian Strohal (Austria), today concluded its seventieth session. Representatives of Kuwait and Iraq addressed the fifteen-member Governing Council at its opening plenary meeting.…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) will hold its seventieth session from 9 to 11 November 2010 under the Presidency of Ambassador Strohal (Austria). During the session, the Governing Council will discuss various issues relating to the work of the…

Adopts Recommendations on the Reports of Belgium, El Salvador, Hungary, Jordan and Poland The Human Rights Committee concluded its one hundredth session today, during which it considered and adopted concluding observations and recommendations on the reports submitted by Belgium, El Salvador,…

Sixteen Countries will have their Human Rights Records Examined Sixteen States will have their human rights records examined during the ninth session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group to be held in Geneva from 1 to 12 November. These countries are (in order of…

Committee Adopts Conclusions on the Periodic Reports of Burkina Faso, Czech Republic, Malta, Tunisia and Uganda as well as on an Exceptional Report by India The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning concluded its forty-seventh session, adopting concluding…

Urges States to Outlaw Recruitment of Child Soldiers NEW YORK – The Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Ms. Yanghee Lee*, yesterday called upon Somalia and the United States to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The two are the only countries that have not…

The three Co-Chairs of the Geneva International Discussions, Pierre Morel, Special Representative of the European Union, Antti Turunen, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Georgia, and Bolat Nurgaliev, Special Envoy of the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for…