The 2017 Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) will be held at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 4 to 8 December 2017. This is the first such meeting in the new 2017-2020 intersessional process that was mandated by the Eighth BWC Review Conference in 2016…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon held a thematic discussion on racial discrimination in today’s world: racial profiling, ethnic cleansing and current global issues and challenges. In her opening statement, Anastasia Crickley, Committee Chairperson,…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined eleventh and twelfth periodic reports of Slovakia on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the World Food Programme, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological…

The Human Rights Council will hold a special session on "the human rights situation of the minority Rohingya Muslim population and other minorities in the Rakhine State of Myanmar" on Tuesday, 5 December starting at 10 a.m. in Room XX of the Palais des Nations. The special session is being convened…

51st meeting of Gali Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism Russian Version On 28 November 2017, the 51st meeting of the joint Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) was held in Gali town under the United Nations chairmanship with the participation of Georgian, Russian, Abkhaz…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the World Food Programme, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined eighteenth to twentieth periodic report of Australia on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.…

The Committee against Torture this afternoon discussed follow-up to concluding observations and recommendations under Article 19, and follow-up to individual communications under Article 22 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.…