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

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning heard from representatives of a non-governmental organization from Suriname, ahead of its review of its report later today. A representative of the Forest Peoples Programme said that in Suriname, indigenous and tribal people…

Mame Baba Cisse, the new Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Cisse served as the Ambassador of Senegal to…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined fifteenth to twenty-first reports of Niger on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Maiga Zeinabou Labo, General…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director a.i. of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, International Organization for Migration, United Nations Refugee Agency and the World Health…

The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Meeting of Experts in 2015 will take place at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 10 to 14 August 2015. Formally known as the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined nineteenth to twenty-second periodic reports of Costa Rica on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Introducing the…

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children have condemned the execution in Pakistan of Shafqat Hussein, who was reportedly 14 years old when he was convicted of murder. “The execution of Shafqat…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined fifteenth to sixteenth reports of Colombia on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Introducing the reports, Carmen…

Japan makes statement on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki The Conference on Disarmament resumed its work in a formal plenary today, the first of the third and final part of its 2015 session It was addressed by the Permanent Representative of Japan on the…