States Parties to Promote Effective Action on Biosafety, Biosecurity, Oversight, Education, Awareness-raising and Codes of Conduct The Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) for 2008 will be held in the United Nations Office at Geneva from 1 to 5 December. Chaired…

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on the situation of human rights in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Friday, 28 November, in room XVII of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Special Session was called by France on behalf of Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina…

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Lithuania, Serbia, Kazakhstan, China, Montenegro, Belgium and Kenya The Committee against Torture today concluded its forty-first session, issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on reports from Lithuania, Serbia, Kazakhstan, China (…

Issues Conclusions on Reports of Nicaragua, Sweden, Kenya, the Philippines and Angola and on Situation in Kosovo on Basis of a Document Submitted by UNMIKC The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concluded its forty-first session today, after issuing its concluding observations and…

The Second Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) is being held on 10 and 11 November 2008 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Ambassador Edvardas Borisovas of Lithuania was designated by…

Issues Conclusions on Reports of Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Mongolia, Myanmar, Portugal, Slovenia and Uruguay The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon concluded its forty-second session and issued its concluding…

Negotiations to Focus on New Instrument on Cluster Munitions Negotiations on a new instrument on cluster munitions by a Group of Governmental Experts of the High Contracting Parties to the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be…

The United Nations Compensation Commission has made available today a total of $888,656,729 to three Governments for distribution to 16 successful claimants. Payment is being made in respect of 6 claims in category E (claims of corporations and public sector enterprises) and 10 claims in…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, under the presidency of Deputy Permanent Representative Brauwers (Belgium), and the vice-presidency of Ambassador Puja (Indonesia) today concluded its sixty-sixth session. Representatives of Kuwait and Iraq addressed the fifteen…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its sixty-sixth session from 21 to 22 October 2008 under the Presidency of Ambassador Van Meeuwen (Belgium) and Vice-Presidency of Ambassador Puja (Indonesia). During the session, the Governing Council will discuss…