Felix Gaer Selected for Working Group on Treaty Body Reform; Fernando Mariño Menendez Named Focal Point for UN Refugee Agency The Committee against Torture this afternoon considered the issue of follow-up to the Fifth Inter-Committee Meeting, held from 19 to 21 June 2006, and the Eighteenth…

Adopts Final Conclusions and Recommendations on Reports of Honduras, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine and Republic of Korea The Human Rights Committee concluded today its eighty-eighth session, during which it considered and adopted concluding observations and recommendations on the reports…

Marie Heuzé, Director of the Information Service 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 UN Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Meteorological…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, meeting under the Presidency of Ambassador Tassos Kriekoukis (Greece), today concluded its sixty-first session. Representatives of Kuwait, Iraq, and India addressed the fifteen-member Governing Council at its opening plenary…

Adopts Observations and Recommendations on Initial Report of Mexico The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today presented its concluding observations and recommendations on the initial report of Mexico, which it considered during this…

The Eighth Annual Conference of the States Parties to the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices (Amended Protocol II), annexed to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be…

Conference to celebrate entry into force of Protocol on explosive remnants of war The Third Review Conference of States Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate…

Bids Goodbye to Four Committee Members The Human Rights Committee this morning discussed the progress reports of the Special Rapporteur for Follow-up to Views and the Special Rapporteur for Follow-up to Concluding Observations. Ivan Shearer, Committee Expert and Special Rapporteur for Follow-up…

The Committee on the Protection of Migrant Workers this afternoon discussed ways to promote the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families and the status of reporting by States parties. Introducing the discussion,…

Marie Heuzé, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which also heard from Spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Development Fund, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United…