GENEVA – The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Friday expressed deep regret at the insistence of authorities in the United Kingdom to proceed with the eviction of Gypsy and Traveller families at the Dale Farm in Essex before providing culturally appropriate…

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Paraguay, the Maldives, Kenya, Georgia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Albania, the United Kingdom and Malta The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its four-week seventy-ninth session and released its concluding…

Raimonds Jansons, the new Permanent Representative of Latvia 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. Jansons served as Ambassador of Latvia…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the UN Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Trade Organization.…

Abdelrahman Mohamed Abdalla Dhirar, the new Permanent Representative of Sudan 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. Dhirar had served as…

The Conference on Disarmament held a plenary meeting this morning in which it discussed the way forward and the annual report to be submitted to the United Nations General Assembly. During the discussion, a speaker reaffirmed that the total elimination of nuclear weapons was the only absolute…

Steffen Kongstad, the new Permanent Representative of Norway 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. Kongstad had been serving since 2008 as…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the International Organization for Migration, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the World Trade Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the International…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has concluded consideration of the fifteenth through twentieth reports of Malta on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. The report of Malta was…