The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, under the presidency of Ambassador Van Meeuwen (Belgium), and the vice-presidency of Ambassador Puja (Indonesia) has today concluded its sixty-fifth session. At this session, the Council elected Ambassador Thompson (Costa Rica)…

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 addressed by Spokespersons for the World Food Programme, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its sixty-fifth session from 8 to 9 April 2008 under the Presidency of Ambassador Alex Van Meeuwen (Belgium). During the session, the Governing Council will discuss various issues relating to the work of the…

The Second 2008 Session of the Group of Governmental Experts of the High Contracting Parties to the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW) will convene from 7…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Conference on…

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CHILE PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOGCarlos Portales Cifuentes, the new Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations…

Carlos Robelo Raffone, the new Permanent Representative of Nicaragua 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, since May 2007, Mr. Robelo Raffone…

Yusuf Mohamed Ismail, the new Permanent Representative of Somalia 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 by the Government of Somalia, he had been…

The Human Rights Committee, the United Nations expert body that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, concluded its three-week session at Headquarters in New York today, having taken up the compliance reports of Tunisia, Botswana, the former…

First 16 Countries to be Reviewed During Inaugural UPR Session from 7 to 18 April The first session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 7 to 18 April during which 16 States will have their human rights records examined under this…