15 years ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
15 August 2006
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which also heard from Spokespersons for the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.Geneva Activities Marie Heuzé said the Committee on the Elimination of Racial…
15 years ago
COMMITTEE AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS SITUATION IN SAINT LUCIA AND NAMIBIA UNDER REVIEW PROCEDURE
15 August 2006
Meeting Summaries
Discusses Early Warning and Emergency Action Procedure
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon considered the situation in Saint Lucia and Namibia under its review procedure for countries whose reports are seriously overdue. It also discussed its early warning and emergency action procedure.
Reporting on the situation in Saint Lucia, whose initial to eighth periodic reports were overdue, Committee Expert Fatimata-Binta Victoire Dah said there were no new elements to report. Still of concern were…
15 years ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF UKRAINE
14 August 2006
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the seventeenth and eighteenth periodic reports of Ukraine on the country’s implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Presenting the report, Sergii Rudyk, Head of the State Committee on National Citizenship of Ukraine, said that in March 2006, democratic national and local elections had been held, which had been confirmed to be free and fair by independent international monitors. As a result of political…
15 years ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
11 August 2006
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which also heard from Spokespersons for the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the World Meteorological Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian…
15 years ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF NORWAY
11 August 2006
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the seventeenth and eighteenth periodic reports of Norway on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Presenting the report, Petter Wille, Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway, said that a large step towards more comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation had been made in June 2005 when Parliament approved the Act Prohibiting Discrimination based on ethnicity and religion…
15 years ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ADOPTS STATEMENT ON LEBANON
11 August 2006
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon adopted a statement on the situation in Lebanon in which it said that having held a debate on the situation in Lebanon on 3 August 2006, the Committee was deeply concerned that the continuation of the conflict may intensify racial discrimination and hatred in the region and the wider world. The Committee expressed fully its support for the statement made by the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights in this regard.
The statement was adopted by a roll call vote of 9…
15 years ago
SECOND SPECIAL SESSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DECIDES TO ESTABLISH HIGH-LEVEL INQUIRY COMMISSION FOR LEBANON
11 August 2006
Meeting Summaries
Council Strongly Condemns Grave Israeli Violations of Human Rights in Lebanon
The second special session of the Human Rights Council today strongly condemned the grave Israeli violations of human rights and breaches of international humanitarian law in Lebanon and decided to urgently establish and immediately dispatch a high-level inquiry commission to the region.
In a resolution, adopted after a roll-call vote of 27 in favour, 11 against, and 8 abstentions, the Council said the high-level commission should comprise of eminent…
15 years ago
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF ECUADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG
11 August 2006
Presentation of Credentials
Mauricio Montalvo Samaniego, the new Permanent Representative of Ecuador 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, Mr. Montalvo Samaniego had been serving since 2005 as the Under-Secretary for Multilateral Relations at the Ministry for External Affairs of Ecuador. In 2005, he was also General Coordinator and Coordinator in Charge of Summits within the Ministry, after serving, the previous…
15 years ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT DISCUSSES ISSUES RELATED TO A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAMME OF DISARMAMENT
10 August 2006
Meeting Summaries
Concludes Debate on Negative Security Assurances
The Conference on Disarmament this morning took up the issue of a comprehensive programme of disarmament, item 6 on its agenda, after concluding its discussion on negative security assurances, item 4 on the agenda.
On points raised under the issue of the comprehensive programme of disarmament, speakers said adopting fair and just disarmament principles and effective disarmament measures in order to achieve the goal of advancing the multilateral disarmament process, preserving world peace and…
15 years ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF DENMARK
10 August 2006
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the sixteenth and seventeenth periodic reports of Denmark on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Presenting the report, Kim Vinthen, Head of the Human Rights Unit of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Denmark, said that the Government had decided to establish a new reporting system with regard to criminal acts and incidents on a presumed racist background and had also taken steps to set up a…
