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 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health…

Committee Also Adopts Report and Concludes Third Session The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this afternoon adopted a recommendation on the human rights of elderly people as a new priority within the framework of its agenda and annual programme of work, adopted its report ad referendum…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this afternoon concluded its third session during which it adopted six recommendations and its report to the Human Rights Council. Among the recommendations adopted, the Advisory Committee submitted for the consideration of the Human Rights Council a…

The Conference on Disarmament today marked the sixty-fourth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The President of the Conference, Ambassador Caroline Millar of Australia, drew attention to the fact that today was the sixty-fourth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic…

Discusses New Priorities, including the Human Rights of Elderly People The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this morning adopted its rules of procedure and methods of work, closed its debate on the right to food, and began its consideration of new priorities, including on the human rights…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined seventeenth to nineteenth reports of Poland (CERD/C/POL/19) on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report,…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined twelfth to sixteenth reports of the United Arab Emirates (CERD/C/ARE/12-17) on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination.…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this morning discussed the right to food. Introducing the work of the Working Group on the right to food and background papers on the Noma disease and peasants, within the framework of anti-discrimination, Advisory Committee Expert Jean Zeigler said the…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this afternoon took up the issue of missing persons, after which it continued its consideration of its draft rules of procedure and methods of work. Wolfgang Stefan Heinz, Advisory Committee Expert, in a statement on the work of the Drafting Group on the…

Eight States Address the Conference The President of the Conference on Disarmament, Ambassador Caroline Millar of Australia, this morning presented members with an amalgamated and updated draft decision on the implementation of the Conference’s programme of work, the result of extensive and wide-…