The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the third periodic report of Sweden on that country’s efforts to implement the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing the report, Elisabeth Borsiin Bonnier, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United…

Hears Statement by Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights; Observes Minute of Silence in Memory of Victims of Tsunami The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning opened its winter session by hearing an address by the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Mehr Khan…

It has come to the attention of the secretariat of the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) that, for reasons unknown to the UNCC, the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) has made available to the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) internal audit reports on the UNCC dated between…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which dealt mainly with the tsunami relief efforts. Participating in the briefing were Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of…

Wegger Christian Strommen, the new Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva and other international organizations in Geneva. Prior to his…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, chaired the briefing which concentrated on the latest developments concerning the tsunami aid efforts. Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the United…