The Committee on the Rights of the Child opened its seventy-second session at the Palais Wilson this morning, hearing an address by Ibrahim Salama, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee also adopted its agenda and programme…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director, a.i., United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the World Health Organization and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.Geneva activities Committees The Conference on Disarmament was holding the first…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning opened the second part of its 2016 session by hearing statements by Syed Tariq Fatemi, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, and Lassina Zerbo, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty…

Meeting in Vienna on May 17, 2016, as the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), the Arab League, Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, the European Union, France, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, The Netherlands, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi…

The Committee against Torture this morning concluded its fifty-seventh session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of France, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the Philippines and Israel on their implementation of the provisions of the Convention against…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director, a.i., United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the World Meteorological Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency,…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its eighty-ninth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Spain, Oman, Rwanda, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Namibia on their implementation of the provisions of the International…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director, a.i., United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Refugee Agency.UN…

The Committee against Torture this afternoon discussed the issue of follow-up to concluding observations and recommendations and to individual communications, hearing from Committee members Jens Modvig, Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations, and Sapana Pradhan-Malla, Rapporteur on…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the United Nations Children’s Fund. UN Secretary-General Mr. LeBlanc said…