5 years ago
BURUNDI TORTURE REVIEW: UNITED NATIONS EXPERTS CONCERNED AT REPORTED REPRISALS
08 August 2016
Meeting Summaries
Geneva (8 August 2016) – The United Nations Committee against Torture has voiced grave concern about reported reprisals against four Burundian lawyers who provided information to it for a special review of Burundi.
The Committee has sent a letter to the Burundian ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, seeking urgent reassurances that no member of Burundian civil society would be subject to reprisals for cooperating with the Committee.
The four lawyers - Armel Niyongere, Lambert Nigarura, Dieudonné Bashirahishize and Vital Nshimirimana - contributed to an…
5 years ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
05 August 2016
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Michele Zaccheo, Chief of the UN TV and Radio Section, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the International Organization for Migration.South SudanChristophe Boulierac, for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said that the situation in South Sudan was catastrophic, and even more so for children. UNICEF was responding to the growing food security emergency which was affecting children in both rural and urban areas. In 2016 so far, UNICEF had treated 120,000 children under 5 for severe…
5 years ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS THE REPORT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
05 August 2016
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twenty-first to twenty-third periodic report of the United Kingdom on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Paul Downie, Department for Communities and Local Government of the United Kingdom, introducing the report, said that the United Kingdom was a multi-ethnic and multi-faith country, with a very diverse society in which 13 per cent of the…
5 years ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE HOLDS SEVENTEENTH SESSION FROM 8 TO 12 AUGUST IN GENEVA
04 August 2016
Press Release
The seventeenth session of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee will take place from 8 to 12 August 2016 in Room XX at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
During the session, the Committee will continue its discussions on thematic studies requested by the Council, including on unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents (Human Rights Council resolution 29/12); the elimination of discrimination against persons with leprosy and their family members (Human Rights Council resolution 29/5); the impact of the flow of funds of illicit origin and…
5 years ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HEARS FROM RUSSIA ON DRAFT CONVENTION FOR SUPPRESSION OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL TERRORISM
04 August 2016
Meeting Summaries
Also Hears Statements by Japan, China, Republic of Korea, United States, India, Belarus, Iran, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Australia
The Conference on Disarmament this morning held a public plenary in which it received further details from the Russian Federation on the draft Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Chemical and Biological Terrorism, and heard from a number of delegations.
The Russian Federation provided an update to its March proposal on the draft Convention, calling it a comprehensive…
5 years ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION EXAMINES THE REPORT OF GREECE
04 August 2016
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twentieth to twenty-second periodic report of Greece on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Introducing the report, Kostis Papaioannou, Secretary General for Transparency and Human Rights, Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights of Greece, said that more than one million refugees and irregular migrants had arrived in Greece since the beginning of 2015…
5 years ago
Near verbatim transcript of stakeout by Mr. Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, United Nations Deputy 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
04 August 2016
Press Conferences
RER. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I will give a general overview of the situation with a particular emphasis on the political process, then Jan Egeland will get into more details about the humanitarian situation, as discussed today during the taskforce.
Last week, Special Envoy de Mistura informed you of his intention to hold the intra-Syrian talks towards the end of August. We are…
5 years ago
Press Stakeout by the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria
04 August 2016
Press Conference Announcement
The meeting will be followed by a press stakeout with the Senior Advisor to the Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Jan Egeland and the Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy. The press stakeout will be webcast live on webtv.un.org.
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Press Stakeout by the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria
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5 years ago
COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON SYRIA MARKS SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF 3 AUGUST 2014 ATTACK BY ISIS AND THE START OF ITS ON-GOING GENOCIDE OF THE YAZIDIS
03 August 2016
Press Release
Statement by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic
GENEVA, 3 August 2016 -- Two years ago today, in the early hours of 3 August 2014, ISIS fighters left their bases and brutally attacked the Yazidis of Sinjar, a distinct religious group whose beliefs and practice span thousands of years.
In our report, “They Came to Destroy: ISIS Crimes Against the Yazidis”, released on 16 June 2016, we determined that ISIS has committed the crime of genocide, as well as…
5 years ago
CIVIL SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVES BRIEF COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ON SITUATION IN GREECE AND UNITED KINGDOM
03 August 2016
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning heard from civil society representatives about the situation in Greece and the United Kingdom, ahead of the Committee’s review of the reports of these countries this week.
In Greece, civil society organizations were concerned about the 2013 blanket amnesty for crimes, including racist speech, and about the complete abolition of Article 2 of the Law 979/79 in 2014 which had effectively decriminalized hate speech. They said that anti-…
