Le Thi Tuyet Mai, the new Permanent Representative of Viet Nam to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Le had been serving as Director-General of…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon met with representatives of civil society organizations from Latvia, Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Eritrea, whose reports on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its seventy-fifth session, hearing a statement by Ibrahim Salama, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and adopting its agenda and programme of work. Mr…

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 Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the…

Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Austria, Belarus, Costa Rica, Hungary, Rwanda and the State of Palestine The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon closed its eighty-third session after adopting concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Austria,…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon held its twelfth informal meeting with States, during which it discussed a range of issues, including the Committee’s upcoming special session in Samoa, its general comment on children’s rights in the digital environment, and the day of…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard a statement by France, and then held informal talks on the non-paper presented by the President of the Conference on a draft programme of work. In his opening remarks, Ambassador Rachid Belbaki of Algeria, President of the Conference on Disarmament…

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 Office of the Special Envoy for Syria (OSE), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard statements by Poland and Brazil and held informal talks on the non-paper presented by the President of the Conference on a draft programme of work. At the beginning of the meeting, Ambassador Rachid Belbaki of Algeria, President of the Conference on…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the World Food Programme (WFP), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and the United…