Discusses Situation in Gambia under its Review Procedure The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today completed its consideration, begun yesterday afternoon, of the combined eleventh and twelfth periodic report of Suriname on its implementation of the provisions of the…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was attended by Spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the Office for the Coordination of…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined initial, second and third periodic report of Turkey on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, Hasan…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning decided, at the request of the Russia Federation, to exceptionally hold a public plenary meeting on Saturday, 7 March to hear an address by the Russian Foreign Minister. Ambassador Valery Loschinin of the Russian Federation said that the President’s…

Council Concludes Tenth Special Session The Human Rights Council this morning concluded its tenth Special Session after adopting a resolution on the impact of the global economic and financial crises on the universal realization and effective enjoyment of human rights which expressed deep concern…

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this morning held the first meeting of its first session, during which it heard a statement by the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, after which the members of the Committee made a solemn declaration and discussed their agenda for…

Moses Benjamin Jallow, the new Permanent Representative of Gambia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Jallow had been serving as…

The Human Rights Council concluded it tenth Special Session today after adopting a resolution on the impact of the global economic and financial crises on the universal realization and effective enjoyment of human rights in which it stressed that global economic and financial crises did not…

The First 2009 Session of the Group of Governmental Experts of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) took place this week from 16 to 20 February at the Palais des Nations, Geneva. The Group was mandated by the CCW States parties to continue its negotiations to address urgently the…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the International Labour Organization, the Office of the High…