Adopts Final Conclusions and Recommendations on Reports of Canada, Paraguay, Italy and Brazil The Human Rights Committee concluded today its eighty-fifth session during which it considered and adopted concluding observations and recommendations on the reports submitted by Canada, Paraguay, Italy...

The United Nations Compensation Commission has made available today a total of $ 654,355,008.59 to 15 Governments and 3 international organizations for distribution to 239 successful claimants. Payment is being made in respect of 3 claims in category “C” (claims of individuals for damages up to...

Adopts Conclusions on Reports from Australia, Algeria, Uganda, China, Finland, Denmark and the Russian Federation The Committee on the Rights of the Child concluded today its fortieth session and issued its conclusions and recommendations on the situation of children in Australia, Algeria, Uganda...

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, under the Presidency of Ambassador Tassos Kriekoukis (Greece), today concluded its fifty-seventh session. Representatives of Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia (on behalf of Iran, Jordan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) and the Philippines...

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its fifty-seventh session from 27 to 29 September 2005 under the Presidency of Ambassador Tassos Kriekoukis (Greece). During the session, the Council will discuss various issues relating to the activities of the...

The Conference on Disarmament, the world's sole multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, today concluded the third and last part of its 2005 session after adopting its annual report. In its report, which will be presented to the General Assembly at its present session, the Conference noted...

The 2005 United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament starts today at the United Nations Office at Geneva with the participation of young diplomats from 30 Member States of the United Nations. The programme will last for a period of almost ten weeks. Diplomats from the following 30...

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports Presented by Venezuela, Georgia, Zambia, Barbados, Tanzania, Iceland, Turkmenistan and Nigeria The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its sixty-seventh session and issued its concluding observations on reports presented...

The Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the eighth to sixteenth periodic reports of Barbados on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Introducing the report, Trevor Clarke,...

Adopts Final Conclusions and Recommendations on Reports of Yemen, Tajikistan, Slovenia, Syria, and Thailand The Human Rights Committee concluded today its three-week summer session during which it considered and adopted concluding observations and recommendations on the reports submitted by Yemen...