Amadeu Paulo Samuel Da Conceição, the new Permanent Representative of Mozambique 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. Da Conceição served as…

Adriana del Rosario Mendoza Agudelo, the new Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Mendoza Agudelo had been…

The Human Rights Committee today finished the second reading of its draft General Comment no. 36 on article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the right to life, after adopting paragraphs 67 to 71. Yuval Shany, Committee Chairperson and Rapporteur for the draft…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the seventh periodic report of the Republic of the Congo on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Inès Nefer Bertille Ingani, Minister…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the sixth periodic report of Nepal on measures taken to implement the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Tham Maya Thapa, Minister for Women, Children and…

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

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

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon met with representatives of the civil society from Nepal, the Republic of the Congo, the Bahamas, and Samoa, whose reports will be reviewed this week. Speakers from Nepal said that due to the absence of a definition of…

The Human Rights Committee this morning discussed an update by the Rapporteur on the Follow-Up to Concluding Observations, and endorsed the document titled “Possible elements of a common aligned procedure for follow-up to concluding observations, decisions and views for all treaty bodies”, which…

The Human Rights Committee today continued the second reading of its draft General Comment no. 36 on article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the right to life. The Committee adopted paragraphs 65 and 66, and began discussing paragraph 67 of the fifth part of the…