Experts to Discuss Biosafety and Biosecurity, as well as Oversight, Education, Awareness Raising, and Codes of Conduct The 2008 Meeting of Experts from States parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) will be held in Geneva from 18 to 22 August 2008. The Meeting of Experts is part of a…

This afternoon the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination discussed reports presented by Committee Members on follow-up to the Committee’s concluding observations concerning the four countries for which replies had been received: Guatemala, Guyana, Liechtenstein and Turkmenistan.…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this afternoon adopted eight recommendations to be submitted to the Human Rights Council on a drafting group on human rights education and training; on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order; on missing persons; on integrating the…

Forms a Drafting Group on Communications The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this morning discussed its agenda and programme of work, including new priorities. It also appointed the members of the Working Group on Communications of the Human Rights Council Complaint Procedure. In the…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this morning discussed how to proceed with studies that had been started by the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. In the discussion, several Experts stressed the importance of not wasting the work that had already been done…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Committee of the Red…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the seventeenth and eighteenth periodic reports of Sweden on how that State party is fulfilling its obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Carl-Henrik…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this afternoon discussed the fate of pending studies prepared by the former Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. Advisory Committee Experts wondered how they should proceed when submitting recommendations to the Council on this…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the fourth to sixth periodic reports of Switzerland on how that State party is fulfilling its obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Christine Schraner Burgener…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this morning exchanged informal views with a representative from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the right to food. The Council also held a general debate on its rules of procedure. Oldrich Andrysek, Chief of the Protection Policy and…