3 years 9 months ago
20th anniversary of the Swiss Forum for InternationalAffairs - Panel « Le multilatéralisme en question : quelles conséquences pour la Genève internationale ? »
01 November 2017
| Michael Møller
Speech
1 novembre 201720e anniversaire du Forum suisse de politique internationale - Panel « Le multilatéralisme en question : quelles conséquences pour la Genève internationale ? »
Allocution de Monsieur Michael Møller
Secrétaire général adjoint
Directeur général de l’Office des Nations Unies à Genève
20e anniversaire du Forum suisse de politique internationale
Panel « Le multilatéralisme en question :
quelles conséquences pour la Genève internationale ? »
Mercredi 1er…
3 years 9 months ago
Exhibition «Entre Deux Rives»
01 November 2017
| Michael Møller
Speech
1 novembre 2017Exposition «Entre Deux Rives»
Allocution de M. Michael Møller
Secrétaire général adjoint des Nations Unies
Directeur général de l’Office des Nations Unies à Genève
Exposition «Entre Deux Rives»
Mercredi 1er novembre 2017, 12.30
Mezzanine, E Building, 2nd Floor - Door 40, Palais des Nations
Monsieur l’Ambassadeur,
Excellences,
Mesdames et Messieurs:
Je suis ravi d’être avec vous aujourd’hui à l’occasion de l’inauguration de l’exposition «Entre Deux Rives». Tout d’abord, je souhaite adresser mes plus sincères remerciements à Monsieur l’Ambassadeur Doudech et à la Mission…
3 years 9 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE HOLDS INFORMAL MEETING WITH STATES
01 November 2017
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee this afternoon held an informal meeting with States, discussing the lack of human resources which continued to hamper the Committee’s ability to address the current backlog of some 650 individual communications, as well as the late presentation of periodic reports by States parties.
In his opening remarks, Yuji Iwasawa, Chairperson of the Committee, regretted that 70 States parties had delays in presenting their reports to the Committee, of which 15 had never submitted their initial reports and 25 were overdue by more than 10 years. Mr. Iwasawa…
3 years 9 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN REVIEWS THE SITUATION OF WOMEN IN KUWAIT
01 November 2017
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the fifth periodic report of Kuwait on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Introducing the report, Jamal Alghunaim, Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said that Kuwait was committed to reviewing and modernizing legislation relevant to women’s affairs in order to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women; to promoting…
3 years 9 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW WORKING GROUP TO HOLD TWENTY-EIGHTH SESSION IN GENEVA FROM 6 TO 17 NOVEMBER 2017
01 November 2017
Press Release
Working Group to Review the Human Rights Records in 14 States
The twenty-eighth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 6 to 17 November during which the next group of 14 States are scheduled to have their human rights records examined under this mechanism.
The group of States to be reviewed by the Universal Periodic Review Working Group during this session are (in order of scheduled review): Czechia, Argentina, Gabon, Ghana, Peru, Guatemala…
3 years 9 months ago
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF MEXICO PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA
01 November 2017
Presentation of Credentials
María del Socorro Flores Liera, the new Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Flores Liera was Undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico since September 2015.
In the Foreign Ministry, she has served as Director General of American Regional Organizations and…
3 years 9 months ago
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF ICELAND PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA
01 November 2017
Presentation of Credentials
Harald Aspelund, the new Permanent Representative of Iceland 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. Aspelund served as Director General for Administration and Consular Affairs at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland from 2013 to 2017. He was a Director at the Directorate for External Trade and Economic Affairs at the Ministry from 2009 to…
