The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its fifty-fifth session from 8 to10 March 2005 under the Presidency of Ambassador Tassos Kriekoukis (Greece). During the session, the Council will consider five reports and recommendations of panels of Commissioners…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the report of Bahrain on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report was Majeed Bin Muhsen Al Alawi, Minister of Labour…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which provided information on the official visit by the King and Queen of Spain to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva, the International Meeting on the Question…

The Tenth Session of the Group of Governmental Experts of the 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 Effects (CCW), established by the Second Review…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the report of Ireland on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report was Frank Fahey, Minister of State at the…

The Conference on Disarmament today heard 13 speakers commemorate the sixth anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction. The speakers underlined the progress made so far…

Kadija Rachida Masri, the new Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva, today presented her letter of nomination to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to her…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the report of Australia on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report was Mike Smith, Ambassador and Permanent…

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 on the Secretary-General's visit to London, new statements by the Secretary-General, the Deputy-Secretary-General's visit…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has held a thematic discussion on the prevention of genocide during which Representatives of States parties, United Nations entities and non-governmental organizations expressed their views about actions needed to thwart genocide.…