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COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES OPENS ITS SIXTEENTH SESSION
15 August 2016
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this morning opened its sixteenth session, hearing an address by a representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee adopted its agenda and programme of work for the session, which includes the consideration of seven reports: Uruguay, Ethiopia, Bolivia, United Arab Emirates, Guatemala, Colombia and Italy. It also heard statements from other United Nations bodies, specialized agencies, non-governmental organizations and organizations representing persons with disabilities.
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WIPO Press Conference
15 August 2016
Press Conference Announcement
Co-published by WIPO,Cornell University and INSEAD, the report provides an annual ranking of the innovation capabilities and performance of economies around the world. In its ninth edition, the GII has established itself as a leading reference on innovation and a valuable bench-marking tool for decision-makers around the world. Innovation plays a key role as a driver of economic growth and prosperity. The GII seeks to improve the way innovation is measured and understood. It recognizes the need for a broad vision of innovation, applicable to developed and emerging economies alike, and includes indicators…
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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF BULGARIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA
15 August 2016
Presentation of Credentials
Deyana Kostadinova, the new Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Kostadinova had been serving as Chief of Cabinet of the President of Bulgaria since December 2015. In 2013, she served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labour and Social Policy in the caretaker government of Bulgaria. She was appointed as Secretary of…
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE CONCLUDES SEVENTEENTH SESSION
12 August 2016
Press Release
The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee today concluded its seventeenth session, which was held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 8 to 12 August 2016.
At the closing meeting, the Advisory Committee, a body of 18 independent experts serving as a think-tank to the United Nations Human Rights Council, took action on the four thematic issues that it had been considering: unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents; the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy; the negative impact of the non-repatriation of funds of illicit origin on the…
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REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
12 August 2016
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, and the World Intellectual Property Organization.Polio in Nigeria
Tarik Jašareviæ, for the World Health Organization (WHO), said that two cases of polio had been confirmed in Nigeria this week.
Michel Zaffran, Director, Polio Eradication at the…
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COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS THE REPORT OF UKRAINE
12 August 2016
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twenty-second and twenty-third periodic report of Ukraine on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Tamara Mazur, Deputy Minister of Culture of Ukraine, said that Ukraine was at a very important stage of the reforms in the area of human rights and its most important mission was the proper implementation of the relevant legislation, in…
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COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE CONCLUDES FIFTY-EIGHTH SESSION
12 August 2016
Press Release
Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Kuwait, Honduras, Burundi and Mongolia
The Committee against Torture today concluded its fifty-eighth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Kuwait, Honduras, Burundi and Mongolia on their implementation of the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
The Committee’s concluding observations and recommendations on the reviewed country reports will be available after 1 p.m. Geneva time on the Committee’s…
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OHCHR Press Conference (Committee against Torture)
12 August 2016
Press Conference Announcement
Jens Modvig (Chair) Sébastien Touzé Claude Heller Alessio Bruni
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OHCHR Press Conference (Committee against Torture)
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Concluding Observations of the Committee against Torture on Kuwait, Honduras, Burundi and Mongolia
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COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS THE REPORT OF LEBANON
11 August 2016
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined eighteenth to twenty-second periodic report of Lebanon on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Najla Assaker, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations Office at Geneva, introducing the report, said that following the outbreak of bloody events in Syria in 2011, Lebanon, a country of four million people, had opened its doors to 1.6…
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Transcript (including a corrigendum) of stakeout by Mr. Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, and Mr. Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the Special Envoy for Syria following the meeting of meeting of the ISSG Humanitarian Taskforce
11 August 2016
Press Conferences
SdeM: Good afternoon. Much is happening, and it has been a long meeting on the humanitarian taskforce for obvious reasons. There have been a lot of new developments this week in terms of military activities and militarization of the conflict and that the so called “battle for Aleppo” is becoming again one major issue which is drawing attention from the political but also from the humanitarian…
