States Parties to Promote Effective Action on Biosafety, Biosecurity, Oversight, Education, Awareness-raising and Codes of Conduct The Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) for 2008 will be held in the United Nations Office at Geneva from 1 to 5 December. Chaired…

The third session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group will be held in Geneva from 1 to 15 December during which 16 States will have their human rights records examined under this new mechanism. The third group of States to be reviewed under the Universal Periodic…

Strategies to Obtain Ratifications by Migrant-Receiving States Discussed United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay this morning told the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families that she realized that there had not been the…

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on the situation of human rights in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Friday, 28 November, in room XVII of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Special Session was called by France on behalf of Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina…

This afternoon the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families held an exchange of views with members of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, as well as with a representative of…

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 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the world Food Programme, the UN Refugee Agency…

The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families has considered the initial report of El Salvador on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.…

Hears from Representative of High Commissioner for Human Rights The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, which reviews the implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant…

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 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the UN Refugee Agency, the United Nations…

Issues Conclusions on Reports of Nicaragua, Sweden, Kenya, the Philippines and Angola and on Situation in Kosovo on Basis of a Document Submitted by UNMIKC The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concluded its forty-first session today, after issuing its concluding observations and…