The Conference on Disarmament this morning held its first plenary meeting under the Presidency of Pakistan. Ambassador Tehmina Janjua of Pakistan, incoming President of the Conference, stated that the state of play in the Conference was a reflection of the prevailing strategic realities. The...

The Committee on Enforced Disappearances closed its tenth session today after hearing statements by Juan Jose Lopez Ortega, Committee Rapporteur, and Emmanuel Decaux, Committee Chairperson. Juan Jose Lopez Ortega, Committee Rapporteur, presenting the report of the tenth session, said that the...

The announcement by President Putin on the very day of the beginning of this round of Intra-Syrian Talks in Geneva is a significant development, which we hope will have a positive impact on the progress of the negotiations in Geneva aimed at achieving a political solution of the Syrian conflict and...

GENEVA (Issued as received) – A Russian woman who was denied employment at the helm of a boat because the job was on a list of banned occupations for women in the Russian Federation suffered gender-based discrimination, UN experts have found. The experts, from the Committee on the Elimination of...

On 11 March 2016, Bahrain joined the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) and its Protocol III on Incendiary Weapons, Protocol IV on Blinding Laser Weapons and Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War. Bahrain is now the 122nd State Party to the CCW. Ambassador Tehmina Janjua of Pakistan...

Arabic versionAfter five years of a brutal and senseless conflict over a quarter of a million Syrians have been killed and over half the population forced from their homes out of fear and want. Some 4.6 million people are barely existing in places that few can leave and aid cannot reach. A...

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Namibia, Canada and Kenya The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon concluded its fifty-seventh session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Namibia, Canada and...

Adopts Concluding Recommendations on the Reports of the Czech Republic, Haiti, Iceland, Japan, Mongolia, Sweden, Tanzania and Vanuatu The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today concluded its sixty-third session after adopting its concluding observations and...

Geneva (01 March 2016)- The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, today announced that intra-Syrian peace talks will resume in the afternoon of 9 March 2016. The 7th of March 2016 was initially set as the target date for the resumption of peace talks. In order to allow...

The Conference on Disarmament continued its High-Level Segment this morning, hearing statements by the Minister of Foreign Trade and Development of Finland, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Vice Minister for...