The 2012 Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East opened today at the International Geneva Conference Centre in Geneva, Switzerland. The Seminar will focus on the role of the media in covering different aspects of recent events in the Middle East, especially the Arab Spring, and how they relate…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the World Trade Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Food Programme, the UN…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the combined third and fourth periodic report of Algeria on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Boudjemaa Delmi, Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said…

The three Co-chairs of the Geneva International Discussions, Philippe Lefort, European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus and for the crisis in Georgia; Antti Turunen, United Nations Representative to the Geneva International Discussions and the Joint Incident Prevention and…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the reports of Greece on how that country is implementing the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and on children involved in armed conflict. The…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the combined second and third periodic report of Greece on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ioannis Georgakopoulos, General Director for European and International Educational Affairs,…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the International Labour Organization, the International Organization for Migration and the UN Refugee Agency.…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning concluded its review of the fourth periodic report of Australia on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing the report, Peter Woolcott, Permanent Representative of Australia to the United…

The Conference on Disarmament today continued with its schedule of activities to discuss the core issues on its agenda and held a thematic discussion on the prevention of an arms race in outer space. Ambassador Kari Kahiluoto of Finland, President of the Conference on Disarmament, read out a…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the reports of Australia on how that country is implementing the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and on children involved in armed conflict.…