Adopts Concluding Observations and Reservations on Reports of Turkmenistan, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Togo and Chile The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today concluded its fifty-third session and adopted its concluding observations and recommendations on the…

The fourteenth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 22 October to 5 November during which the next group of 14 States will have their human rights records examined under this mechanism. The group of States to be…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the High Commissioner for Refugees, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Economic Commission for Europe, the United Nations…

The Co-Chairs of the Geneva International Discussions gave a press conference this afternoon at the end of the twenty-first round of the Discussions. PHILIPPE LEFORT, European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus and for the crisis in Georgia, reading out the press communiqué of the…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the High Commissioner for Refugees, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Liberia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Namibia, Austria, Albania and Canada The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning concluded its sixty-first session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on reports…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Economic Commission on Europe, the International…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration.Syria Adrian Edwards for…

High Commissioner for Human Rights Addresses the Committee The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its fifty-third session, hearing a statement from Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and adopting its agenda and programme…