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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CONCLUDES FOURTH SESSION

18 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CONCLUDES FOURTH SESSION 30 March 2007 Press Release Adopts Eleven Resolutions and Four Decisions, Including on Follow-up to Missions to Darfur and Occupied Palestinian Territory The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its fourth regular session, having considered a large number of reports from its Special Procedures, on the high-level missions mandated during earlier special sessions, and…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

18 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 30 March 2007 UN Geneva Press Briefing Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, chaired the briefing, which provided information on the Secretary-General's trip to the Middle East, the activities of the Human Rights Council and the Conference on Disarmament, the opening for signature of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, El Niño/La Niña, the situation of displaced…

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES MARCH SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS

18 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES MARCH SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS 30 March 2007 Press Release (New York) - The Human Rights Committee, which monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, concluded its three-week session at Headquarters in New York today and, heading into its July session in Geneva, during which it will consider the human rights situation in the Czech Republic, Grenada, Sudan and Zambia, the Committee Chairman,…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

18 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 27 March 2007 UN Geneva Press Briefing Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, chaired the briefing which also heard from the Spokespersons for the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization and the International Organization for Migration.Activities of the Secretary-General Ms.…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

18 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 23 March 2007 UN Geneva Press Briefing Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also addressed by Spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration, the World Meteorological Organization, the UN Environment Programme, the World Food Programme, the UN Conference on Trade and…

REMARKS OF UNOG DIRECTOR-GENERAL AT EXHIBITION MARKING TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR-TEST-BAN TREATY

18 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home REMARKS OF UNOG DIRECTOR-GENERAL AT EXHIBITION MARKING TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR-TEST-BAN TREATY 20 March 2007 Press Conferences Following are the opening remarks made today by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva and Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament, on the occasion of the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and the opening of the exhibition, “…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

18 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 20 March 2007 UN Geneva Press Briefing Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also addressed by Spokespersons for the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration. Spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Office for the…

UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS INDEPENDENT EXPERT REITERATES CONCERNS ABOUT DEATH SENTENCE ON FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF IRAQ

18 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS INDEPENDENT EXPERT REITERATES CONCERNS ABOUT DEATH SENTENCE ON FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF IRAQ 16 March 2007 Press Release The Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Leandro Despouy, issued the following statement today: “Following the recent dismissal of the appeal by Taha Yassin Ramadan against the death sentence imposed by the Iraqi High Tribunal, the Special Rapporteur…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

18 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 16 March 2007 UN Geneva Press Briefing Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also addressed by Spokespersons for the World Health Organization, The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Trade Organization and the…

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF NIGERIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

18 years 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF NIGERIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG 15 March 2007 Presentation of Credentials Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi, the new Permanent Representative of Nigeria 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. Uhomoibhi had been serving as the acting Director of the Office of the…