The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined seventh and eighth periodic report of Hungary on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Introducing the report…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined seventh and eighth periodic report of Austria on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Introducing the report,…

Conference Unable to Reach Consensus on Draft Programme of Work The Conference on Disarmament this morning held a public plenary in which many States condemned today’s nuclear test by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The draft programme of work presented by the President of the…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the fourth periodic report of Pakistan on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Introducing the report of Pakistan, Khawar…

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

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with non-governmental organizations about the situation in the Russian Federation, Algeria, and the Dominican Republic. The reports of those three countries will be reviewed by the Committee during…

Luis Enrique Chavez Basagoitia, the new Permanent Representative of Peru 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. Chavez Basagoitia had been…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission held a special session today for the purpose of electing a new president and one of the two vice-presidents of the Council. The Permanent Representative of Morocco (the current vice-president of the Council), Ambassador Omar Hilale…

Elects Nicole Ameline of France as New Chairperson The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its fifty-four session, hearing a statement from Jacob Schneider of the Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights,…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination opened its eighty-second session this morning, hearing an address by Simon Walker, Chief of the Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section, Human Rights Treaties Division, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights…