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UNCTAD Press Conference
04 June 2012
Press Conference Announcement
Trade and Development: a Central Issue for Rio +20 Publication of "The Road to Rio+20: For a development-led green economy" - 3rd report in a series Guillermo Valles - UNCTAD - Director - International Trade Division Lucas Assunçao - UNCTAD - Chief, Trade, Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Branch, UNCTAD - International Trade Division
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9 years 2 months ago
ILO Press Conference
04 June 2012
Press Conference Announcement
Launch of the annual ILO report on the situation of workers in the Occupied Arab Territories. - Kari Tapiola, Head of the ILO mission - Nada al Nashif, ILO Regional Director for the Arab States
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ILO Press Conference
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9 years 2 months ago
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF AFGHANISTAN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA
04 June 2012
Presentation of Credentials
Nanguyalai Tarzi, the new Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Tarzi had been serving as Ambassador of Afghanistan to India, and concurrently as non-resident Ambassador of Afghanistan to Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives and Bhutan, since June 2010. He was the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations…
9 years 2 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL OPENS FOURTH SPECIAL SESSION ON SYRIA
01 June 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this morning opened a Special Session to examine the deteriorating human rights situation in Syria and the recent killings in El Houleh.
The session was convened after the Council received a request from Qatar, Turkey, United States, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Denmark and the European Union, backed by 17 other Member States and supported by 33 observer States. This is the fourth Special Session the Council has convened on the situation in Syria in the past 14 months. The Council held the first Special Session on the human rights situation in Syria on 29 April…
9 years 2 months ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
01 June 2012
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Labour Organization, the Human Rights Council, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the International Organization for Migration, the UN Refugee Agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the World Health Organization.Human Rights Council Special Session on Syria
Rolando Gomez of the Human Rights Council said the Council was currently in session to adopt the UPR reports on the…
9 years 2 months ago
COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE CONCLUDES FORTY-EIGHTH SESSION
01 June 2012
Press Release
Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Albania, Armenia, Canada, Cuba, Czech Republic, Greece and Rwanda, and in Absence of a Special Report on Syria
The Committee against Torture concluded its forty-eighth session today, issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on reports from Albania, Armenia, Canada, Cuba, Czech Republic, Greece and Rwanda which it reviewed during the session, and also on the situation in Syria in the absence of a special report by Syria.
The Committee against Torture considered the implementation of the Convention in Syria in the absence of the…
9 years 2 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD REVIEWS REPORT OF TURKEY
01 June 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the combined second and third periodic report of Turkey on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Introducing the report, Fatma Sahin, Minister of Family and Social Policies of Turkey, said that constitutional and legal amendments in 2008 and in 2010 had identified the obligations of the State concerning the rights of the child and the protection of the family and had strengthened the constitutional infrastructure in this regard. Turkey had established the National Child Strategy…
9 years 2 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL REQUESTS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY TO CONDUCT A SPECIAL INQUIRY IN THE EVENTS IN EL HOULEH
01 June 2012
Meeting Summaries
Concludes Special Session after Condemning in the Strongest Possible Terms the Outrageous Use of Force against Civilians in Syria
The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its Special Session on the deteriorating human rights situation in Syria and the recent killings in El Houleh after adopting a resolution in which it deplored the recent killings in El Houleh and emphasized the continued failure of the Syrian authorities to protect and promote the rights of all Syrians. The Council requested the Commission of Inquiry to…
9 years 2 months ago
COUNCIL CONCLUDES SPECIAL SESSION ON DETERIORATING HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN SYRIA AND THE RECENT KILLINGS IN EL HOULEH
01 June 2012
Press Release
Requests Commission of Inquiry to Urgently Conduct a Special Inquiry into the Events in El Houleh and Condemns in the Harshest Terms the Killings
The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded a Special Session to examine the deteriorating human rights situation in Syria and the recent killings in El Houleh in which it adopted a resolution condemning the violence and ongoing human rights violations in Syria; requesting the Commission of Inquiry to hold a special inquiry into the events in El Houleh; and inviting the Joint…
9 years 2 months ago
Press Conference
01 June 2012
Press Conference Announcement
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