The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon heard from representatives of civil society on the situation of women’s rights in Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Republic of Moldova and Kiribati, whose reports on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination…

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this morning opened its sixty-seventh session, hearing a statement by Ibrahim Salama, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and adopting its agenda and programme of work…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Food Programme (WFP), the International Organization for Migration (IOM…

Experts Raise Concerns about the Human Rights Violations in the Context of the Mandatory Conscription, Urge Eritrea to Defend the Rights of Women The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the sixth periodic report of Eritrea on its implementation of the…

Consultations on the Package Containing Draft Programme of Work for the 2020 Session to Continue The Conference on Disarmament today held its last plenary under the presidency of Algeria, in the presence of Tatyana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva and Secretary-…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the sixth periodic report of Zimbabwe on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The Experts called on Zimbabwe to, inter alia, improve…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the fifth periodic report of Pakistan on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The Experts stressed the need for the harmonization of gender…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning held a brief plenary meeting in the presence of Tatyana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva and Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament. Ambassador Rachid Belbaki of Algeria, President of the Conference on…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined fourth to seventh periodic reports of Latvia on how it implements the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Experts urged Latvia to adopt specific gender…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria (OSE), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the…