The Committee against Torture this morning heard the response of El Salvador 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 or…

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has considered the fifth periodic report of Poland on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Introducing the report, Radoslaw Mleczko, Undersecretary of State, Ministry…

The Committee against Torture this morning began its consideration of the second periodic report of El Salvador 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. Introducing the report,…

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today considered the combined initial to third periodic report of Chad, on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in the absence of a delegation. Marchan Romero,…

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has considered the combined second to fifth periodic report of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Introducing the report Upio…

The Committee against Torture this afternoon heard the response of Slovakia 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 or Punishment…

The Third Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) will be held on 9 and 10 November 2009 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Conference this year will continue to focus on efforts to…

The Eleventh Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to CCW Amended Protocol II will commence its work on 11 November 2009 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The one-day Conference will be chaired by Ambassador Jânis Maþeiks of Latvia as President, who will be assisted by three vice-…

The Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW), which will be chaired by Ambassador Babacar Carlos M’baye of Senegal,…

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 International Labour Office, the World Health Organization, the UN Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration and…