KINSHASA/GENEVA, 8 December 2015: A United Nations report published Tuesday highlights a worrying clampdown on opposition, media and civil society in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the beginning of the year and stresses the need to guarantee political and civil rights ahead of key…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director a.i. of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by Spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, International Organization for Migration, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and the World Health…

Geneva, 7 December 2015 -- The Human Rights Council this afternoon elected its new bureau for 2016 at an organizational meeting appointing Ambassador Choi Kyong-lim, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations Office at Geneva, to serve as its President for a term…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning concluded its consideration of the combined fourth to sixth periodic report of Turkey on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Hasan Ulusoy, Director…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director a.i. of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Mine Action Service, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning concluded its consideration of the combined nineteenth to twenty-second periodic report of Mongolia on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined eighth to eleventh periodic report of Slovenia on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report,…

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

Ahmad Fawzi, Director a.i. of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Children Fund, United…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined seventeenth to twenty-second periodic report of Egypt on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report…