Ahmad Fawzi, Director a.i. of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration and the World Health Organization. Mediterranean Crossings William Spindler, for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said that a series of shipwrecks and capsizings on the Mediterranean the previous week now appeared to have claimed at least 880 lives, according to new information received through interviews of survivors in...

Ahmad Fawzi, Director, a.i., United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the World Trade Organization.UN Secretary-General Mr. Fawzi said that the Secretary-General was in Nagoya, Japan today, where he was attending the outreach session of the G-7 Summit. Shortly after arriving in Nagoya, the Secretary-General had had a bilateral meeting with...

Ahmad Fawzi, Director, a.i., United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.Geneva activities Committees The Conference on Disarmament was holding a public plenary in the morning of 24 May, starting at 10 a.m. Until 29 May, the Conference would be under the presidency of Ambassador...

Ahmad Fawzi, Director, a.i., United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, the International Labour Organization and the World Food Programme.Geneva activities Committees The Conference on Disarmament had opened in the past week, under the presidency of Ambassador Tehmina Janjua of Pakistan, the second part of its 2016 session, which would take place until 1 July (then, the third and last...

Ahmad Fawzi, Director, a.i., United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the World Health Organization and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.Geneva activities Committees The Conference on Disarmament was holding the first plenary of the second part of its 2016 session on 17 May at 10 a.m. in the Council Chamber under the Presidency of Ambassador Tehmina Janjua of Pakistan. The Committee on the Rights of the Child would meet at Palais Wilson to hold its seventy-second session from 17 May to 3 June, to review the promotion...

Ahmad Fawzi, Director, a.i., United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the World Meteorological Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, and the International Labour Organization. UN Secretary-General Mr. Fawzi said that the Secretary-General had been in Portugal on 12 May, meeting with Prime Minister António Luís Santos da Costa and with the Foreign Minister, and...

Ahmad Fawzi, Director, a.i., United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Refugee Agency.UN Secretary-General and UNOG Director-General Mr. Fawzi said that on 9 May, the Secretary-General had been in Mauritius. He had visited several World Heritage Sites and had attended the Congress of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration. UNOG Director-General Michael Møller would be...

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the United Nations Children’s Fund. UN Secretary-General Mr. LeBlanc said that on 5 May, the Secretary-General had opened the 2016 Climate Action Summit in Washington, D.C., and had spoken to a diverse group of representatives from Governments, the civil society, businesses, academia, and philanthropy. He had said that to rise to the challenges of climate change, we...

Michele Zaccheo, Chief, Radio and Television Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the International Organization for Migration. Geneva activities Committees The Committee against Torture would begin in the morning of 3 May the review of the report of Israel. It would hear on 4 May in the afternoon the answers from the Israeli delegation to the questions raised on 3 May by Committee experts. This would be the last report to be reviewed for the current session. This...

Ahmad Fawzi, Director, a.i., United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization and the World Meteorological Organization. UN Secretary-General Mr. Fawzi announced that the Secretary-General was in Vienna from 26 to 29 April, to chair the formal session of the UN System Chief Executives Board. He would also participate in a high-level panel commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. He would be...