Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health…

Decides to Dispatch a Team of International Experts to the Kasaï region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Creates new Mandate on Persons Affected by Leprosy, Renews 10 Mandates including on Eritrea, Belarus and Extrajudicial Executions, and Appoints Four Special Procedures Mandate Holders…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Australia, Uruguay, the Netherlands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka and Pakistan The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights closed its sixty-first session this morning, after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on…

The participants in the 40th round of the Geneva International Discussions (GID) just completed their work. In both working groups, wide-ranging and useful discussions took place. In Working Group I dealing with security issues, the situation on the ground was assessed as relatively calm and stable…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s…

Francisco A. Caraballo, the new Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Caraballo…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the…

George C. Kasoulides, the new Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Kasoulides had been serving as the…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Telecommunications Union, the Human Rights Council, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service at the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Office of the…