13 years ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
12 August 2008
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and the Universal Postal Union. Representatives of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the World Health Organization were also present to respond to questions from…
13 years ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORTS OF SWEDEN
12 August 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the seventeenth and eighteenth periodic reports of Sweden on how that State party is fulfilling its obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Carl-Henrik Ehrenkrona, Director-General for Legal Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, introducing the report, said that, in Sweden, as in many other countries, racial discrimination remained an area of concern, despite attempts to counter it. Recently, some…
13 years ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE DISCUSSES STUDIES PREPARED BY THE SUB-COMMISSION ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
12 August 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this afternoon discussed the fate of pending studies prepared by the former Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.
Advisory Committee Experts wondered how they should proceed when submitting recommendations to the Council on this subject and discussed whether they should submit a recommendation to the Council during this session or wait until January to have more time to look into the status of each study. The Committee decided to meet…
13 years ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORTS OF SWITZERLAND
11 August 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the fourth to sixth periodic reports of Switzerland on how that State party is fulfilling its obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Christine Schraner Burgener, Ambassador, Assistant Director of the Directorate of Public International Law in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, introducing the report, highlighted that the increase of procedures against racism and discrimination, which had been…
13 years ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE DISCUSSES RIGHT TO FOOD AND RULES OF PROCEDURE
11 August 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this morning exchanged informal views with a representative from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the right to food. The Council also held a general debate on its rules of procedure.
Oldrich Andrysek, Chief of the Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section within the Division of International Protection Services of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said that UNHCR was increasingly concerned about the right to food of refugees. The difficulty now was to have the…
13 years ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE DISCUSSES ITS RULES OF PROCEDURE
11 August 2008
Meeting Summaries
Committee Sets Up Drafting Group to Work on Rules of Procedure
The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this afternoon discussed its rules of procedure and decided to establish a drafting group to work on preparing them.
During the discussion, Experts wondered whether they needed detailed rules of procedure or only general ones. One Expert thought that there was a need for detailed rules. These were necessary in order to ensure that during discussions of substance, they would not have to have discussions on rules of procedures and thus not waste any time. For…
13 years ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
08 August 2008
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons and representatives of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the International Organization for Migration. Representatives from the World Meteorological Organization and the International Telecommunication Union were…
13 years ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE DISCUSSES THE RIGHT TO FOOD
08 August 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this morning held an interactive dialogue with an Expert from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on how speculation on food prices was affecting the right to food before discussing organizational matters.
Heiner Flassbeck, Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, provided the Committee with an introduction to speculation and food prices. He said that there were clearly speculative forces behind the high prices. The…
13 years ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORTS OF AUSTRIA
08 August 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the fifteenth to seventeenth periodic reports of Austria, submitted in one document, on how that State party is fulfilling its obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Brigitte Ohms, Deputy Head of the Division for International Affairs and General Administrative Affairs in the Federal Chancellery of Austria, introducing the report, said that a tolerant social climate was highly influenced by public figures, including…
13 years ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE DISCUSSES PROMOTION OF A DEMOCRATIC AND EQUITABLE INTERNATIONAL ORDER AND MISSING PERSONS
07 August 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this morning discussed requests from the Human Rights Council to the Committee concerning the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order and the issue of missing persons.
Susan Mathews of the Research and Right to Development Division of the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights noted that the Human Rights Council in a resolution had affirmed that people had the right to a democratic and equitable international order, which also required the…
