The Conference on Disarmament, the world's single multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold the first public plenary of its 2015 session on Tuesday, 20 January at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will open under the presidency of Mexico. The presidency of the…

The twenty-first session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 19 to 30 January during which the next group of 14 States are scheduled to have their human rights records examined under this mechanism. The group of States to be…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the fifth periodic report of Sweden on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing the report, Pernilla Baralt, State Secretary, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined second to fourth periodic report of Turkmenistan on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its initial reports under the Optional Protocols on children in armed…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the initial reports of Cambodia on how the country is implementing the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and the Optional Protocol on children involved…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined third to fifth periodic report of the Dominican Republic on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Presenting the report, Gertrudis Alberto Padilla Vicioso, Head of…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, International Labour Organization, United Nations Development Programme, International Organization for Migration, United…

Yvette Morris, Chief, TV and Radio Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by the spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the…

Yvette Morris, Chief, TV and Radio Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Labour Organization, the International Organization of Migration and the United Nations Children’s Fund. Schools in…