States Parties Agree on Common Understandings and to Promote Effective Action on Measures to Improve Biosafety and Biosecurity, Oversight, Education, Awareness Raising, and Codes of Conduct The Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention took place from 1 to 5 December 2008 in…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United…

The Human Rights Council today concluded its eighth special session on the situation of human rights in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adopted a resolution in which it condemned the acts of violence, human rights violations and abuses committed in Kivu, in particular sexual…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section 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 United Nations Children’s Fund, the UN…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Initial Report of El Salvador The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today concluded its ninth session after issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on the initial…

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 third session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group will be held in Geneva from 1 to 15 December during which 16 States will have their human rights records examined under this new mechanism. The third group of States to be reviewed under the Universal Periodic…

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…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section 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 UN Refugee Agency…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section 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 UN Refugee Agency, the United Nations…