The Committee against Torture this afternoon heard the response of Uzbekistan to questions raised by Committee Experts on the third periodic report of that country on how it is implementing the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or…

The Committee against Torture this morning began its consideration of the third periodic report of Uzbekistan on the efforts of that country to give effect to the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Esemurat Kanyazov, Deputy…

Debapriya Bhattacharya, the new Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Concurrently with his new post in Geneva, Mr. Bhattacharya has been…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which provided information about the situation in Myanmar, meetings this week of the Committee against Torture and of the Committee on Economic,…

The Committee against Torture this afternoon heard the response of Latvia to questions raised by Committee Experts on the second periodic report of that country on how it is implementing the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.…

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has considered the initial to fourth periodic reports of San Marino on how that country is implementing the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Introducing the report, Dario Galassi, Permanent…

Following is the message of the UN Secretary-General to the first Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons’ Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War, which was delivered by Timothy Caughley, Deputy Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament…

On 5 November 2007, the first Conference of the States Parties to Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War annexed to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) successfully concluded its meeting in Geneva. Under the presidency of Ambassador Johannes C. Landman of the Netherlands, the…

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has considered the fifth periodic report of Ukraine on how that country is implementing the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Introducing the report, Lydia Drozdova, First Deputy Minister at the…

The Committee against Torture this afternoon began its consideration of the second periodic report of Latvia on the efforts of that country to give effect to the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Introducing the report, Inga…