The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined thirteenth to fifteenth periodic report of Namibia on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Lidwina…

Mustafa Osman Ismail Elamin, the new Permanent Representative of Sudan 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. Elamin had been Minister of…

A long standing party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), on 25 April 2016 Lesotho joined Protocol IV on Blinding Laser Weapons and Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War. Lesotho also joined the amendment to Article 1 of the Convention, which ensures that the CCW and its…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined seventh to ninth periodic report of Azerbaijan on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the…

The Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its consideration of the fifth periodic report of Israel on the measures taken to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture. Eviatar Manor, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said Israel…

Michele Zaccheo, Chief, Radio and Television Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the International Organization for Migration. Geneva activities Committees The Committee…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined sixth to eighth periodic report of Georgia on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Introducing the…

States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) met in Geneva, Switzerland from 26 to 27 April 2016 for the Preparatory Committee of the Eighth Review Conference. The Preparatory Committee meeting marked the beginning of a process during which the 174 States Parties to the BWC will review…

Arabic ملاحظة للمراسلين بيان لمكتب المبعوث الخاص للأمم المتحدة لسوريا، السيد ستيفان دي مستورا، عقب الاجتماعات مع وزير الخارجية الأمريكية ووزير خارجية المملكة العربية السعودية جنيف، 2 مايو 2016 التقى المبعوث الخاص للأمم المتحدة لسوريا، ستيفان دي مستورا اليوم بوزير الخارجية الأمريكي السيد جون كيري…

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