Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the World Trade Organization.Syria Ms. Vellucci said…

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Armenia on its implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Vigen Kocharyan, Deputy Minister of Justice of Armenia, introducing the report…

Michelle Bachelet, the President of Chile, this morning addressed a special meeting of the Human Rights Council, saying that Chile had made a commitment to head an initiative against torture that brought together countries from every continent for the purpose of preventing this crime…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Bangladesh, Serbia, Turkmenistan, Italy, Thailand, and Bosnia and Herzegovina The Human Rights Committee this morning held a public meeting in which it discussed its methods of work, after which the Committee closed its one hundred and…

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Jordan on its implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Mired Ra'ad Zeid Al Hussein, President of the Higher Council for Affairs of…

The thirty-ninth round of the Geneva International Discussions was held today. The Co-Chairs welcomed the overall business-like atmosphere in which it took place. In Working Group I dealing with security issues, the participants assessed the security situation as relatively calm and stable. There…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human…

The Human Rights Council will convene a special meeting as a matter of courtesy on Wednesday, 29 March 2017 on the occasion of the visit of Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile. The special meeting will start at 11.30am in Room XX. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the United Nations High…

United States Rejects Claims, a Number of States Condemn the Latest Ballistic Missile Launch by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard presentations by experts from the Russian Federation and China on the capabilities of the United States’ anti-…

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Bosnia and Herzegovina on its implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In the presentation of the report, Saliha Djuderija, Assistant…