The Secretary-General met today with H.E. Mr. Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The Secretary-General and the Foreign Minister exchanged views on the situation in Syria. The Secretary-General emphasized that the coming weeks were crucial in advancing a political…

GENEVA (Issued as received) - The participants in the thirty-sixth round of the Geneva International Discussions have just completed their work. In Working Group I dealing with security issues, the participants discussed extensively the fatal incident, which occurred in Khurcha on May 19. In this…

EXPERTOS DE LA ONU EXPRESAN ALARMA ANTE EL AUMENTO DE VIOLENCIA CONTRA AFRODESCENDIENTES EN COLOMBIA GINEBRA (Publicado tal como recibido) – El Grupo de Trabajo de Expertos sobre los Afrodescendientes de las Naciones Unidas expresó hoy su alarma ante reportes sobre violencia contra los…

On 25 May 2016, Côte d'Ivoire joined the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) and its Protocol I on Non-detectable Fragments, Protocol II on Mines, Booby-traps and Other Devices, Protocol III on Incendiary Weapons and Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War. Ambassador Tehmina Janjua of…

The Secretary-General condemns the abhorrent attack carried out on 12 June in Idlib city, Syria, which hit a vegetable market and the only bakery in the area. The apparent air strike took place while a ceasefire stipulated in the Four Towns Agreement, which covers Idlib city, had reportedly been…

Dix ans après sa création, le Conseil des droits de l'homme tiendra sa trente-deuxième session ordinaire du 13 juin au 1er juillet 2016, dans la Salle des droits de l'homme et de l'alliance des civilisations (salle XX) du Palais des Nations à Genève. Cette session donnera lieu dès le premier jour…

Arabic version Genève (Publié tel que reçu) – Des crimes contre l'humanité ont été commis de manière généralisée et systématique en Érythrée dans les centres de détention, les camps d'entraînement militaire et d'autres endroits à travers le pays au cours des 25 dernières années, selon un nouveau…

Il a examiné les rapports présentés par huit pays Le Comité des droits de l'enfant a clos, aujourd'hui, les travaux de sa soixante-douzième session, qui se tenait à Genève depuis le 17 mai et au cours de laquelle il a examiné les rapports présentés par huit États parties au titre de la Convention…

Following the joint press stake-out earlier today in Geneva between the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura and Senior Advisor, Jan Egeland, the Special Envoy briefed the Security Council on the current situation in Syria. This was his first briefing to the Council since the…

The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in Jableh and Tartous, Syria, on 23 May, for which Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as Da’esh) claimed responsibility, during which more than a hundred people were killed and injured.…