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CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HOLDS PLENARY MEETING, FOLLOWED BY INFORMAL CONSULTATIONS ON ITS DRAFT ANNUAL REPORT
27 August 2019
Meeting Summaries
The Conference on Disarmament this morning discussed its draft annual report to the General Assembly, first in a plenary meeting, followed by informal consultations.
Ambassador Taonga Mushayavanhu of Zimbabwe, the President of the Conference on Disarmament, introducing the first draft of the annual report that had been sent to missions a week ago, said that since he had assumed the presidency, he had intensified consultations to seek views on the draft. He was convinced that it constituted a good basis for the Conference to reach…
1 year 11 months ago
TO FULFIL THE PROMISES OF THE 2030 AGENDA, WE NEED TO ACCELERATE OUR ACTION, INCLUDING ON DISABILITY ISSUES, HIGH COMMISSIONER BACHELET URGES AT THE OPENING OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN GENEVA
26 August 2019
Meeting Summaries
From 26 August to 20 September, the Committee will review the reports of Albania, Myanmar, Ecuador, India, Greece, Kuwait, Iraq, El Salvador and Australia
Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, today addressed the opening of the twenty-second session of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Geneva, highlighting the achievements and accomplishments since the…
1 year 11 months ago
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF SOMALIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA
26 August 2019
Presentation of Credentials
Ebyan Mahamed Salah, the new Permanent Representative of Somalia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Salah had been serving as Somalia’s Ambassador to India since December 2007. She was a policy analyst and gender advisor to the Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia from 2004 to 2007, also serving as senior focal point for the…
1 year 11 months ago
WHO Press conference (webcast live)
23 August 2019
Press Conference Announcement
Will be webcast live on http://webtv.un.org/ Dr Michael Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme
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WHO Press conference (webcast live)
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Update on WHO Ebola operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
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1 year 11 months ago
UNICEF Press conference (embargoed)
23 August 2019
Press Conference Announcement
EMBARGOED until 0800 GMT Friday, 23 August 2019Muzoon Almellehan, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director
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UNICEF Press conference (embargoed)
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Release of a UNICEF Child Alert “Education Under Threat in West and Central Africa”
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1 year 11 months ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
23 August 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 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the World Health Organization. Flooding in Sudan
Jens Laerke, for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), read out the following statement:
“Some 54 people have died as a consequence of heavy rains and flash floods that have hit Sudan since…
1 year 11 months ago
YOUNG SWISS CLIMATE CHAMPION RECEIVES A ‘GREEN TICKET’ TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FIRST-EVER YOUTH CLIMATE SUMMIT
23 August 2019
Press Release
GENEVA, 23 August 2019 - Marie-Claire Graf, a young Swiss activist who has launched the Sustainability Week Switzerland, the largest student action movement for sustainable development in the country, will be one of the 100 young climate champions selected from around the world by the UN to participate in the Youth Climate Summit, at UN Headquarters in New York on 21 September.
Marie-Claire started the climate strikes (Fridays For Future) in Switzerland after attending the COP24 in Katowice last December and meeting another youth…
1 year 11 months ago
CONVENTION ON CERTAIN CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS’ AMENDED PROTOCOL II GROUP OF EXPERTS MEETS ON 22 AUGUST AND PROTOCOL V GROUP OF EXPERTS MEETS ON 23 AUGUST
23 August 2019
Press Release
In the framework of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), the annual Amended Protocol II Group of Experts meeting took place on 22 August, and the Protocol V Meeting of Experts on 23 August 2019.
The CCW is a key instrument of international humanitarian law seeking to ban or restrict the use of specific types of weapons that have indiscriminate effects on civilians or cause unnecessary suffering for combatants. Amended Protocol II prohibits or regulates the use of mines, booby…
1 year 11 months ago
Press Conference at the request of the Permanent Mission of Latvia
22 August 2019
Press Conference Announcement
Ambassador Jānis Kārkliņš, President of the 5th Arms Trade Treaty Conference of States Parties Anna Macdonald, ATT Advisor
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Press Conference at the request of the Permanent Mission of Latvia
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Fifth Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) (thematic focus of the Presidency, gender and…
1 year 11 months ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
20 August 2019
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the World Health Organization.Libya
Jens Laerke, for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), thanked everyone for participating in the successful World Humanitarian Day event the previous day.
He then read the following statement:
“At least 90 civilians have been killed and more…
