The Conference on Disarmament this afternoon was addressed by Bogdan Aurescu, State Secretary for Strategic Affairs of Romania, who said that the world was witnessing a positive approach for disarmament and non-proliferation multilateral efforts and that the Conference on Disarmament should take…

Yafei He, the new Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, since 2008, Mr. He had been serving as Vice-…

Opens General Segment, Hearing from 30 Countries And 2 International Organizations This afternoon the Human Rights Council concluded its High-Level Segment, hearing addresses by dignitaries from Germany, Zimbabwe, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cuba and Mozambique, who underscored the…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the…

Conference Authorizes Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom To Read Out a Statement to the Conference on the Occasion of International Women’s Day The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard an address by Cho Hyun, Deputy Minister for Multilateral and Global Affairs of the…

Dignitaries from Philippines, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Viet Nam, Republic of Korea and Serbia address the Human Rights Council under the High-Level Segment The Human Rights Council this morning heard statements from dignitaries from the Philippines, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Viet Nam,…

The Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined fifteenth to twentieth periodic reports of Panama on how that country implements the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Jorge Ricardo Rabrega, Deputy Minister of…

The Conference on Disarmament this afternoon heard from the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin, who laid out Ireland’s vision of the way forward in a number of disarmament areas, including the upcoming Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) Review Conference, and…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon continued its high-level segment, hearing from 14 dignitaries, who raised a number of issues, such as the 2011 review of the Council and its mechanisms and what it should focus on, and the lack of progress on the elimination of racism around the world, and…

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and 17 High-Level Dignitaries Address the Council The Human Rights Council this morning opened its thirteenth session, hearing from 17 high-level dignitaries and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, who said the…