Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons from the World Food Programme, the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Organization for Migration and the World Health Organization.Geneva Activities Ms. Momal-Vanian said that the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women would review the reports of Pakistan today, of Austria on Wednesday, of Hungary on Thursday, and Cyprus on Friday. This week the Committee for the Elimination of Racial…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons from the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the High Commissioner for Refugees, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Economic Commission for Europe.Geneva Activities Ms. Momal-Vanian said that as journalists had seen from the note sent out yesterday, work would start on changing the windows of Room…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme, United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization and the International Organization for Migration Syria Elizabeth Hoff, Representative for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Syria, taking part by telephone from Damascus, said the health situation in the country had progressively worsened in the last six months and there was heavy fighting in the…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the High Commissioner for Refugees, the Human Rights Council, the Economic Commission for Europe, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, the International Labour Organization, the International Organization for Migration and the International Trade Centre.Mali Adrian Edwards for the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said the…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the International Organization for Migration.Egypt Rupert Colville of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said the High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay was to put out a press release in a few minutes in which she was to express alarm at the violence and increasing number…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the High Commissioner for Refugees, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the International Organization for Migration, the World Trade Organization and the International Committee of Red Cross and Red Crescent SocietiesSyria Melissa Fleming for the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Jordan had experienced a record number of refugees crossing its border, with over 30,000 arriving in…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the High Commissioner for Refugees, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the International Organization for Migration.Syria Adrian Edwards for the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said UNHCR was expanding registration and assistance for Syrian refugees to keep pace with the numbers crossing into neighbouring countries each day. Less than a…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the High Commissioner for Refugees, the World Health Organization, World Food Programme and the World Meteorological Organization. Human Rights Council Rolando Gomez for the Human Rights Council (HRC) gave a reminder of the upcoming Universal Periodic Review 15th session saying it opened on Monday (21 January) and ran for two weeks. The first…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the International Labour Organization and the International Organization for Migration.Mali Jens Laerke for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the humanitarian situation in Mali, and in the Mopti region…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the High Commissioner for Refugees, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, the International Organization for Migration and the Inter-Parliamentary Union.SyriaAdrian Edwards for the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said…