The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee will hold its ninth session from 6 to 10 August in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilisations Chamber (Room XX), of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. During the session, the Committee, a body of 18 independent experts serving as…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for and Representatives of the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development, the International Labour Office, the World Meteorological…

The Conference on Disarmament today held a thematic discussion on the prevention of an arms race in outer space. Jean-Hugues Simon-Michel, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations Office at Geneva and President of the Conference on Disarmament, welcomed new colleagues to the…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for and Representatives of the World Health Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the Reports of Armenia, Iceland, Kenya, Lithuania and Maldives The Human Rights Committee concluded this afternoon its one hundred and fifth session, during which it considered and adopted concluding observations and recommendations on reports…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concluded its work today by adopting observations and recommendations arising from its consideration of eight country reports that it took up during its fifty-second session. Under consideration during the three-week session were…

The United Nations Compensation Commission today made available approximately $1.3 billion to the Government of the State of Kuwait. Payment is being made in respect of the remaining six claims with outstanding balances, all awarded to Kuwait and approved by the Governing Council between 1999 and…

Daw Penjo, the new Permanent Representative of Bhutan 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. Penjo had been serving as Foreign Secretary of…

The Human Rights Committee held a meeting this morning to hear the progress report of the Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations and of the Rapporteur on follow-up to individual communications. Christine Chanet, Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations, said that due to…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was attended by Spokespersons for and Representatives of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for…