The States Parties to CCW Amended Protocol II concluded their Eleventh Annual Conference on 11 November 2009 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva with a decision to continue to explore the issue on improvised explosive devices in all its aspects by an expert group next year. The open-ended Group of…

The High Contracting Parties to Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) concluded their two-day Third Conference on 10 November 2009 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Conference ended with significant progress under the…

Kshenuka Senewiratne, the new Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Senewiratne had been serving as…

Ms. Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Officer-in-charge of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was attended by Spokespersons and representatives for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNAIDS, the Office for the Coordination of…

Also Discusses Issue of Torture and Ill-Treatment with Regard To Persons with Disabilities The Committee against Torture this afternoon held its third meeting with the Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture and discussed areas of collaboration between the two bodies. It also held a joint…

The Committee against Torture this morning considered follow-up to its concluding observations on country reports and to communications by individuals alleging their rights under the Convention against Torture had been violated, hearing presentations by Committee members on each topic. Committee…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the United Nations Environmental Programme, the Economic Commission for Europe, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs…

The Committee against Torture this morning concluded its consideration of the fifth periodic report of Spain on the efforts of that country to give effect to the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Javier Garrigues, Permanent…

The Committee against Torture this morning heard the response of the Republic of Moldova to questions raised by Committee Experts on the second periodic report of that country on how it is implementing the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, under the Presidency of Ambassador Christian Strohal (Austria), has today concluded its sixty-eighth session. Representatives of Kuwait and Iraq addressed the fifteen-member Governing Council at its opening plenary meeting. At…