Ebyan Mahamed Salah, the new Permanent Representative of Somalia 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. Salah had been serving as Somalia’s…

From 26 August to 20 September, the Committee will review the reports of Albania, Myanmar, Ecuador, India, Greece, Kuwait, Iraq, El Salvador and Australia Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, today addressed the opening of the twenty-second session of the…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations…

In the framework of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), the annual Amended Protocol II Group of Experts meeting took place on 22 August, and the Protocol V Meeting of Experts on 23 August 2019. The CCW is a key instrument of international humanitarian law seeking to ban or…

GENEVA, 23 August 2019 - Marie-Claire Graf, a young Swiss activist who has launched the Sustainability Week Switzerland, the largest student action movement for sustainable development in the country, will be one of the 100 young climate champions selected from around the world by the UN to…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the World…

Ambassador Taonga Mushayavanhu of Zimbabwe, during the first plenary of the Conference on Disarmament under the presidency of his country, outlined his vision and plans for this last presidency of the 2019 session, which he said would focus on the adoption of the annual report. Zimbabwe took the…

The 2019 United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament started on Monday, 19 August at the United Nations Office at Geneva with the participation of young diplomats and other government officials from 25 States. Officials from the following States are participating in the 2019 Disarmament…

Hate speech, anti-Semitism, and racial discrimination in sports were also discussed Roma’s access to education, employment, and adequate housing, as well as the emergence of new forms of extremism were among topics broached by Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, International Organization for Migration, United Nations Refugee Agency, World Food…