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 United Nations Children’s Fund, the World…

Le Comité pour l'élimination de la discrimination à l'égard des femmes a examiné aujourd'hui le quatrième rapport périodique de la Slovénie sur les mesures prises par ce pays pour se conformer aux dispositions de la Convention sur l'élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination à l'égard des…

The Human Rights Committee this afternoon discussed a document drawn up by its Experts Christine Chanet and Ruth Wedgwood entitled “preliminary thoughts on the Committee’s relationship with the Human Rights Council”. The aim of the document was to draw the Committee’s attention to the Universal…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has considered the fifth, sixth and seventh periodic reports of Mongolia on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Ochir Baigalmaa, State…

Le Comité pour l'élimination de la discrimination à l'égard des femmes a examiné aujourd'hui le rapport périodique de l'Uruguay sur les mesures prises par ce pays pour se conformer aux dispositions de la Convention sur l'élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination à l'égard des femmes. Le…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has considered the third periodic report of Kyrgyzstan on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Introducing the report, Orzubek Nazarov,…

The Human Rights Committee this afternoon adopted a strategic approach to public relations, including relations with the media. The goal of the strategic approach is to make the Committee’s work more widely known. The recommendations made in the strategic approach (CCPR7C/94/CRP.2) include that…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has considered the combined sixth and seventh periodic reports of Ecuador on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Ximena Abarca, of the…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has considered the combined sixth and seventh periodic reports of Canada on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Clare Beckton, Deputy Head…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, under the presidency of Deputy Permanent Representative Brauwers (Belgium), and the vice-presidency of Ambassador Puja (Indonesia) today concluded its sixty-sixth session. Representatives of Kuwait and Iraq addressed the fifteen…