The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today reviewed Colombia’s ninth periodic report on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Adriana Mejia, Deputy Minister for Multilateral Affairs, Ministry for Foreign...

Committee Elects New Bureau after New and Re-Elected Committee Experts Make the Solemn Declaration The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its seventy-second session, hearing a statement by Orest Nowosad, Chief of the Groups in Focus Section, Human...

Elects New Bureau after New Committee Experts Make the Solemn Declaration The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this morning opened its sixty-fifth session in Geneva, hearing a statement by Maja Andrijasevic Boko, Acting Chief of the Civil, Political, Economic, Social and...

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon met with civil society organizations from Colombia, Antigua and Barbuda, Ethiopia and Myanmar whose reports will be reviewed by the Committee during the first week of the session. The Committee also heard, via a video...

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon heard from civil society organizations on the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Bulgaria, Cameroon and Estonia, whose reports the Committee will review this week. Civil...

Continues Discussion on the Revised Draft Programme of Work The Conference on Disarmament this morning continued to discuss the second revised programme of work presented by the Ukrainian presidency on 13 February. At the beginning of the meeting, a number of delegations made statements...

Ambassador Heidi Hulan of Canada Briefs the Conference on the Report of the High-Level Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty Expert Preparatory Group The Conference on Disarmament this morning was briefed on the outcomes of the work of the United Nations High-Level Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty...

Conference on Disarmament Continues Discussion on the Draft Programme of Work Izumi Nakamitsu, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, addressed the Conference on Disarmament this afternoon via a video link from New York. Following a brief...

China Briefs the Conference on the Eighth Formal P5 Conference in Beijing The Conference on Disarmament this morning continued discussions and deliberations on a draft programme of work that the President of the Conference presented on 29 January. China briefed the Conference on the meeting...

Conference Hears Statements on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty The Conference on Disarmament this afternoon discussed a draft programme of work presented by its President, Ambassador Yurii Klymenko of Ukraine, and also heard statements about the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces...