Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the United Nations…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the High Commissioner for Refugees, the World Food Programme, the International Labour Organization, the World Health Organization and the…

Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Paraguay, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, Angola, Macao Special Administrative Region of China and Peru The Human Rights Committee today concluded its one hundredth and seventh session after adopting its concluding observations and…

The Co-Chairs of the Geneva International Discussions gave a press conference this afternoon at the end of the twenty-third round of the Discussions. PHILIPPE LEFORT, European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus and for the crisis in Georgia, reading out the joint press communiqué,…

The Human Rights Committee this morning continued its first reading, paragraph by paragraph, of a draft General Comment on Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the right of everyone to liberty and security of person. The Human Rights Committee publishes its…

Concludes First Part of its 2013 Session The Conference on Disarmament this morning held a thematic discussion on effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons, namely negative security assurances. Ambassador Triyono…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the High Commissioner for Refugees, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health…

Sammie Pesky Eddico, the new Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Eddico had been serving as Chief of…

The Human Rights Committee today discussed progress reports by the Special Rapporteurs on follow-up to concluding observations and follow-up to views as well as its annual report. The follow-up to concluding observations procedure consists of identifying a limited number of recommendations from the…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the High Commissioner for Refugees, the Economic Commission on Europe, the United…