The Conference on Disarmament, the world's single multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold the first public plenary of its 2013 session on Tuesday, 22 January at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will open under the presidency of Hungary. The presidency of the…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the second periodic report of Malta on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Frans Borg, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice, Dialogue and the Family of Malta, said that Malta had ratified the…

John Paul Grech, the new Permanent Representative of Malta 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. Grech had been serving as Special Envoy…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the second periodic report of the United States on its implementation of the provisions of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and the second…

The fifteenth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review Working Group will be held in Geneva from 21 January to 1 February during which the next group of 14 States are scheduled to have their human rights records examined under this mechanism. The group of States to be…

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 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Children’s…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the combined second to fourth periodic report of Guyana on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Jennifer Webster, Minister of Human Services and Social Security of Guyana, said that the steady…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning opened its sixty-second session, adopting its agenda and hearing an address by Ibrahim Salama, Director of the Human Rights Treaty Division at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. In his address…

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 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United…

Israhyananda Dhalladoo, the new Permanent Representative of Mauritius 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. Dhalladoo had been serving as…