45th meeting of Gali Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism On 25 April 2017, the 45th meeting of the joint Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) was held in Gali town under the aegis of the United Nations, with the participation of Georgian, Russian, Abkhaz and EUMM (European…

Hasan Kleib, the new Permanent Representative of Indonesia 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. Kleib had been serving as Deputy…

The twenty-seventh session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 1 to 12 May marking the beginning of the third UPR cycle during which all 193 UN member States will undergo successive reviews spelling out steps they have…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the representatives of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations…

GENEVA (20 April 2017) – The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called for accountability for the reprehensible acts being committed against children in Syria. “Yet again, children are bearing the brunt of horrific attacks in Syria,” said Committee Chair Benyam Dawit Mezmur,…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Situation in Bangladesh, Jamaica and Nigeria The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families concluded this afternoon its twenty-sixth session after adopting its concluding observations and…

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this afternoon closed its seventeenth session after adopting concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Cyprus, Honduras, Iran, Jordan and the Republic of Moldova on how they…

On 5 April 2017, Lebanon joined the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) and its Protocol I on Non-detectable Fragments, Amended Protocol II on Mines, Booby-traps and Other Devices, and Protocol III on Incendiary Weapons. Lebanon also joined the Amendment to Article 1 of the Convention…