The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard from seven States and its President who highlighted the need for rapid efforts to operationalize the decision taken last week to set up five subsidiary bodies on agenda items to advance substantive work in the Conference. Ambassador Veronika…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon met with civil society representatives from Malaysia, Chile, Republic of Korea and Fiji, whose reports on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women will be…

Dieudonné W. Désiré Sougouri, the new Permanent Representative of Burkina Faso 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. Sougouri had served as…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its sixty-ninth session, hearing a statement by Adam Abdelmoula, Director of the Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, the World Meteorological Organization and the Office of the High…

The Conference on Disarmament today adopted a decision to establish five subsidiary bodies to discuss the agenda items with a view to progressively advance the substantive work of the Conference.The President of the Conference, Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha of Sri Lanka presented the first…

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded the consideration via video conference of the initial report of Haiti on its implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Presenting the report in Geneva, Pierre André Dunbar, Permanent…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee will hold its twentieth session from 19 to 23 February 2018 in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Chamber (Room XX) at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. During the session, the Committee will continue its discussions on the integration of…

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this afternoon opened its nineteenth session, during which it will review measures taken by Haiti, Nepal, Oman, Sudan, Slovenia, Seychelles, and Russia to implement the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities…

Gennady Gatilov, the new Permanent Representative of Russia 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. Gatilov had been serving as Deputy Minister…