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COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF IRAQ
20 August 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today completed its consideration of the combined fifteenth to twenty-first periodic report of Iraq on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Presenting the report, Abdulkareem Al-Janabi, Deputy Minister of Human Rights of Iraq, said since Iraq became one of the first countries to sign the Convention it had undergone great changes from dictatorial regime to republican, parliamentarian and democratic regime. Today Iraq was…
7 years ago
World Humanitarian Day 2014 – Plaque Unveiling Ceremony
19 August 2014
| Michael Møller
Speech
19 août 2014World Humanitarian Day 2014 – Plaque Unveiling Ceremony
Remarks by Mr. Michael Møller
United Nations Under-Secretary-General
Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
World Humanitarian Day 2014 – Plaque Unveiling CeremonyTuesday, 19 August 2014 at 17:00
Palais des Nations, in front of Room XXDear Families and Friends of the Colleagues Lost in Humanitarian
Service and Survivors of those Tragic Events
Ms. Djeddou
Distinguished Ambassadors
Dear Colleagues:
Thank you for joining this tribute to the brave colleagues who have given…
7 years ago
UN GENEVA AND HUMANITARIAN PARTNERS COMMEMORATE WORLD HUMANITARIAN DAY WITH HIGH-LEVEL DEBATE AND PLAQUE UNVEILING CEREMONY
19 August 2014
Press Conferences
2013 Set New Record for Violence against Aid Groups with Attacks on 460 Aid Workers, including 155 Killed
As the United Nations Office at Geneva, together with Geneva-based humanitarian partners, commemorate World Humanitarian Day today, new figures show that the number of aid workers killed, kidnapped and seriously wounded has reached the highest number ever recorded.
“All too often our humanitarian colleagues have paid with their lives for seeking to help those in need of assistance, targeted by terrorists trying…
7 years ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
19 August 2014
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the Geneva United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization and the International Organization for Migration.Iraq and North East Syria
Adrian Edwards of the United Nations Refugees Agency (UNHCR) said that in response to the deteriorating situation in Iraq, UNHCR was launching…
7 years ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF CAMEROON
19 August 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today completed its consideration of the combined nineteenth to twenty-first periodic report of Cameroon on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The Committee also heard a statement from its Chairperson to mark World Humanitarian Day and held a minute of applause in tribute to United Nations humanitarian workers who had lost their lives doing their jobs.
Presenting the report, Paul Batibonak, Chargé d’affairs of the Permanent…
7 years ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HEARS STATEMENTS BY ITS PRESIDENT AND EIGHT COUNTRIES
19 August 2014
Meeting Summaries
Japan and Japanese Youth Communicator for a World without Nuclear Weapons Speak on Sixty-Ninth Anniversary of Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard an address by its incoming President and statements by Japan and the Japanese Youth Communicator for a World without Nuclear Weapons, Australia, Myanmar on behalf of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), United States, Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Indonesia and the United Kingdom.
Ambassador Dato Mazlan Muhammad of Malaysia, incoming President of the…
7 years ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION DISCUSSES SITUATION IN IRAQ, CAMEROON AND JAPAN WITH NGOS
18 August 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning heard from representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from Iraq, Cameroon and Japan, ahead of its review of their country reports this week.
On Iraq, representatives of NGOs spoke about the current crisis and violent discrimination towards Yezidi, or Iraq’s indigenous Assyrian Christian population, by the Islamic State since June 2014, and the resulting humanitarian situation. The dire fate of Assyrians who were unable to flee the Islamic State…
7 years ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF PERU
15 August 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today completed its consideration of the combined eighteenth to twenty-first periodic report of Peru on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Presenting the report, Jose Avila Herrera, Vice Minister of Human Rights and Access to Justice of Peru, said that Peru was committed to stamping out the evil of racial discrimination. Racism and intolerance destroyed lives and tore apart communities, regardless of the form they took. A huge…
7 years ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
15 August 2014
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by spokespersons for the International Labour Office, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration.Iraq
Tarik Jasarevic, for the World Health Organization (WHO) briefed journalists on WHO’s latest response in Iraq. WHO had managed to deliver two trucks of medicines to the Department of Health in Dohuk which was enough for 30,000 internally displaced persons…
7 years ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE CONCLUDES THIRTEENTH SESSION
15 August 2014
Press Release
The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee today concluded its thirteenth session, which was held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 11 to 15 August 2014.
The Advisory Committee, a body of 18 independent experts serving as a think-tank to the United Nations Human Rights Council, adopted recommendations to the Human Rights Council to entrust it with the drafting of final reports on promoting human rights through sport and the Olympic ideal, on local government and human rights, and on human rights and unilateral coercive measures.
The Committee also decided to…
