Issues Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Costa Rica, Ukraine, San Marino, Belgium and Paraguay The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today concluded its thirty-ninth session and issued its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports presented…

Marie Heuzé, the 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, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Group of Earth Observers, the…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which provided information about the Secretary-General's activities, the human rights situations in Myanmar and Pakistan, the effects of Super Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh, and the upcoming release of…

The Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the 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), chaired by Ambassador Fransiscos Verros of Greece, concluded on 13…

Following is the message of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the 2007 Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. It was delivered on his behalf by Sergio Duarte, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, on 7 November 2007 at the…

Following is the message of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the Ninth Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. It was delivered on his behalf by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Under-Secretary-General and the…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which heard statements from spokespersons and representatives from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Refugee Agency, the…

Debapriya Bhattacharya, the new Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Concurrently with his new post in Geneva, Mr. Bhattacharya has been…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which provided information about the situation in Myanmar, meetings this week of the Committee against Torture and of the Committee on Economic,…

Following is the message of the UN Secretary-General to the first Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons’ Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War, which was delivered by Timothy Caughley, Deputy Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament…