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COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS MEETS WITH CIVIL SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVES FROM SWITZERLAND, ISRAEL AND ECUADOR
30 September 2019
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon heard from civil society organizations on the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Switzerland, Israel and Ecuador, whose reports the Committee will review this week.
Civil society organizations from Switzerland said the recommendations stemming from the Committee’s last review in 2010 had not been followed or applied. The local and federal authorities should establish a dialogue and a…
1 year 10 months ago
Press release from the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen
30 September 2019
Statements and Speeches
The United Nations is today releasing the agreed Terms of Reference and Core Rules of Procedure for a Syrian-led, Syrian-owned, credible, balanced and inclusive Constitutional Committee to be facilitated by the United Nations in Geneva.
They can be found here https://undocs.org/en/S/2019/775, in the authoritative English version and in translation into Arabic and all other official languages of the United Nations.
These were agreed by the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic and the Syrian Negotiations Commission with the facilitation…
1 year 10 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CLOSES FORTY-SECOND REGULAR SESSION, ADOPTS 38 TEXTS, ESTABLISHES A FACT-FINDING MISSION ON VENEZUELA AND AN EXPERT MECHANISM ON THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT
27 September 2019
Press Release
Renews Mandates on Yemen, Burundi, Somalia, Sudan, Central African Republic and Cambodia; Extends Eight Thematic Mandates
The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its forty-second regular session held in Geneva from 9 to 27 September after adopting 37 resolutions and a Presidential Statement. Among others, the Council established an independent international fact-finding mission to investigate extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary…
1 year 10 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD CONCLUDES EIGHTY-SECOND SESSION
27 September 2019
Press Release
Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mozambique, Portugal and the Republic of Korea under the Convention, and the Reports of Georgia and Panama under the Optional Protocols
The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon concluded its eighty-second session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mozambique, Portugal and the Republic of Korea under the Convention on the Rights of the Child; the report of Georgia under the Optional Protocol on…
1 year 10 months ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
27 September 2019
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Food Programme and the World Trade Organization.General Assembly update
Rhéal LeBlanc, for the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, said that the General Assembly of the…
1 year 10 months ago
OHCHR Press Conference
25 September 2019
Press Conference Announcement
Markus Schefer, CRPD Committee member Rosemary Kayess, CRPD Vice-Chair Jonas Ruskus, CRPD Vice-Chair
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1 year 10 months ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
24 September 2019
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, UN-Water, the World Health Organization and the International Organization for Migration.Climate issues
Daniella Bostrom Couffe, for UN-Water, said that UN-Water was releasing a new policy brief entitled “Climate Change and Water”. It was available on the UN-Water website, and a press release had also been issued. The brief was being released in connection with the Climate Action Summit 2019, which…
1 year 10 months ago
Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen’s remarks at the European Union event on Syria
24 September 2019
Statements and Speeches
Dear High Representative of the EU and Vice-President of the Commission Frederica Mogherini, Dear Ministers, Excellencies, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is good to see so many good friends here today.
Yesterday, for the first time in a long time, the Syrian people received some positive news.
I will speak about that in a moment.
But first let us not forget this: the Syrian people have endured more than 8 and a half years of conflict.
The extent of their suffering and their grim prospects for the future are of deep concern to all of us…
1 year 10 months ago
WMO Press Conference
23 September 2019
Press Conference Announcement
New WMO report on the state of the climate in 2015-2019, with details on global temperatures and other climate change indicators like ice melt and sea level rise. It forms part of United in Science synthesis report with the latest scientific findings to inform the UN Secretary-General's Climate Action Summit in New York. The synthesis report will be presented in New York at a science side event by WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas and other members of the Science Advisory Committee to the Climate Action summit. The report will be distributed to Geneva journalists in advance.Maxx Dilley, Director of…
1 year 10 months ago
Remarks by the Secretary-General to the press on Syria
23 September 2019
Press Release
I am pleased to announce the agreement of the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic and the Syrian Negotiations Commission for a credible, balanced and inclusive Constitutional Committee that will be facilitated by the United Nations in Geneva. I welcome the progress made by the Government and the opposition. My Special Envoy facilitated the agreement in accordance with Security Council resolution 2254 (2015) and will convene the Constitutional Committee in the coming weeks.
I strongly believe that the launch of the Syrian-owned and Syrian-led Constitutional Committee can and must be…
