The Conference on Disarmament, the world's single multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, today concluded its 2021 session after adopting its annual report to the General Assembly. The Conference formally adopted the annual report CD/WP.636/Rev.3 as orally amended following last-…

  The Human Rights Council will hold its regular forty-eighth session from 13 September to 8 October at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan of Fiji, President of the Human Rights Council, will open the hybrid session at 10 a.m. on Monday, 13 September in room XX…

  The Conference on Disarmament today continued to seek agreement on its draft annual report to the General Assembly under the Presidency of Ambassador Frank Tressler of Chile. At the beginning of the morning meeting, Ambassador Tressler welcomed members of the United Nations Disarmament…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Health…

  Des changements de modèles s’imposent dans plusieurs domaines pour faire en sorte que tous les droits des enfants soient défendus en République tchèque. La loi tchèque sur la protection des enfants est toujours fragmentaire et une meilleure coordination entre les ministères concernés par…

  The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning opened its eighty-eighth session in Geneva. The Committee adopted its agenda and programme of work for the session, during which it will review the reports of the Czech Republic, Eswatini, Poland, and Switzerland under the Convention on…

Michele Zaccheo, Chief of the TV and Radio Section of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Refugee Agency. WMO: new “Air…

  Dušan Matulay, the new Permanent Representative of Slovakia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.   Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Matulay had been serving as Director…

  M. Jérôme Bonnafont a présenté aujourd'hui à Mme Tatiana Valovaya, Directrice générale de l’Office des Nations Unies à Genève, les pouvoirs l'accréditant comme Représentant permanent de la France auprès de l'Office. Avant sa nomination à Genève, M. Bonnafont était, depuis septembre 2020,…

  Tovar da Silva Nunes, the new Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. da Silva Nunes had been serving as…