Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the Spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, United Nations Children’s Fund, International Organization for Migration, Office for the Coordination of…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Belize and Ghana The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today concluded its twenty-first session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on Belize and Ghana.…

GENEVA (4 September 2014) – How children use, benefit from and can also be harmed by digital media will be the focus of discussions organised by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva on Friday 12 September. The Day of General Discussion on “Digital media and children’s…

Council to hear presentation of latest report from Commission of Inquiry on Syria, updates on the situations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Iraq, and hold ten panel discussions on a variety of issues The Human Rights Council will hold its twenty-seventh regular session from 8 to 26…

Houssam El dine Alaa, the new Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Vladimir Gratchev, Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Alaa had been serving as Deputy Minister of…

The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families today completed its consideration of the initial report of Ghana on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of All Migrant Workers and Members of their…

The Conference on Disarmament today heard an update by its President and statements by Kazakhstan, Cuba on behalf of the Group of 21 and India on the issue of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. The President of the Conference, Ambassador Mazlan Muhammad of Malaysia, said it was clear to him…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Programme, World Food…

The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families this morning considered Belize’s implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families in the absence of a report and…

The new Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations Office at Geneva, Amr Ahmed Ramadan, today presented his credentials to Vladimir Gratchev, Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Ramadan had been serving as Egypt’s…