The United Nations Compensation Commission has made available today a total of $ 391,203,000.00 to four Governments for distribution to 37 successful claimants. Payment is being made in respect of 10 claims in category E (claims of corporations, other private legal entities and public sector…

Following agreement to promote universal adherence to the ban on biological weapons, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, and Trinidad and Tobago join treaty regime Current efforts to expand the membership of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), described as a cornerstone of international peace and…

Le Groupe d'experts gouvernementaux des États parties à la Convention sur l'interdiction ou la limitation de l'emploi de certaines armes classiques qui peuvent être considérées comme produisant des effets traumatiques excessifs ou comme frappant sans discrimination (également connue sous le nom de…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, under the Presidency of Ambassador Alex Van Meeuwen (Belgium), concluded on 22 June its sixty-third session. Representatives of Kuwait, Bangladesh, India and Jordan addressed the fifteen-member Governing Council at its opening…

Le Conseil des droits de l'homme a terminé le 18 juin les travaux de sa cinquième session, qui se tenait au Palais des Nations à Genève depuis le 11 juin. Présidés par l'Ambassadeur Luis Alfonso de Alba du Mexique, les travaux ont porté en particulier sur les mécanismes institutionnels du…

The Preparatory Committee for the first Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War, annexed to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) concluded its work on 18 June 2007 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The one-day meeting organized…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its sixty-third session from 20 to 22 June 2007 under the Presidency of Ambassador Alex Van Meeuwen (Belgium). During the session, the Governing Council will discuss various issues relating to the work of the…

The Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) of the States Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW) will meet from 19 to 22 June 2007 at the Palais des…

The Preparatory Committee for the first Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War, annexed to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), will be held on 18 June 2007 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, pursuant to the decision of the Third…

Il adopte des observations finales sur les rapports soumis par onze pays en vertu de la Convention ou de ses Protocoles facultatifs Le Comité des droits de l'enfant a clos, ce matin, au Palais Wilson à Genève, les travaux de sa quarante-cinquième session en présentant ses observations finales sur…