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CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HEARS WIDE-SPREAD CONDEMNATION OF NUCLEAR TEST BY DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
05 September 2017
Meeting Summaries
Ahmed Uzumco, Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Addresses the Conference
The Conference on Disarmament today was addressed by Ahmed Uzumco, Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, who spoke on the twentieth anniversary of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which was negotiated in the Conference on Disarmament. The Conference also heard wide-spread condemnation of the 3 September nuclear test by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Mr…
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REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
05 September 2017
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the United Nations Development Programme.Bangladesh
Leonard Doyle, for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), said that the IOM…
3 years 11 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES CONSIDERS REPORT OF LITHUANIA
05 September 2017
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Enforced Disappearances today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Lithuania on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
Introducing the report, Paulius Griciûnas, Vice-Minister of Justice of Lithuania, said that the Convention remained important for the protection of human rights and the prevention of torture and other heinous crimes in all countries and that in Lithuania, this landmark human rights instrument complemented and strengthened…
3 years 11 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF MIGRANT WORKERS CONSIDERS THE REPORT OF ECUADOR
05 September 2017
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today concluded its consideration of the third periodic report of Ecuador on its implementation of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
Introducing the report, José Luis Jácome, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador, noted that Ecuador promoted the right to human mobility in all international fora. Ecuador’s Human Mobility Act of February 2017 had been…
3 years 11 months ago
Press conference of Ms. Catherine Marchi-Uhel, Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian
05 September 2017
Press Conferences
Mesdames et messieurs de la presse,
C’est aujourd’hui ma première occasion de m’entretenir avec vous depuis ma nomination par le Secrétaire général le 3 juillet dernier à la tête du Mécanisme international, impartial et indépendant chargé de faciliter les enquêtes sur les violations les plus graves du droit international commises en République arabe syrienne depuis mars 2011 et d’aider…
3 years 11 months ago
OHCHR Press Conference
05 September 2017
Press Conference Announcement
Mohammad Ali Alnsour, Chief of the Middle East and North Africa Section, UN Human Rights Office
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OHCHR Press Conference
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Human rights situation in Yemen, including violations and abuses since September 2014 - Report to the UN Human Rights Council
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International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism Press Conference
05 September 2017
Press Conference Announcement
Ms. Catherine Marchi-Uhel, Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism
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International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism Press Conference
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Meeting with Head, International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism
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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF MALI PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA
05 September 2017
Presentation of Credentials
Mamadou Henri Konate, the new Permanent Representative of Mali to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Konate had been serving as a Special Adviser to the President of Mali since 2011. He served as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Presidency of Mali from 2004 until 2011. Between July and December 2003, he worked as the President of the National Committee…
3 years 11 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES OPENS THIRTEENTH SESSION IN GENEVA
04 September 2017
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this morning opened its thirteenth session at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, during which it will examine the initial reports of Lithuania and Gabon on their implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
The Committee listened to an address by Georgette Gagnon, Director of the Field Operations and Technical Division, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, heard solemn declarations by five newly elected members of the…
3 years 11 months ago
COMMITTEE ON PROTECTION OF RIGHTS OF MIGRANT WORKERS OPENS TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION
04 September 2017
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families this morning opened its twenty-seventh session, hearing statements by a representative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, members of the Committee, and civil society on the situation of migrant workers in Ecuador, Indonesia and Mexico, whose reports will be reviewed this week.
Opening the meeting, Adam Abdelmoula, Director of the Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human…
