The United Nations Compensation Commission today made available $250 million to the Government of the State of Kuwait towards the Commission’s remaining claim with an outstanding award balance. The United Nations Compensation Commission was established in 1991 in accordance with Security Council…

The Conference on Disarmament, the world's single multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold the first public plenary of its 2020 session on Tuesday, 21 January at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will open under the Presidency of Algeria. The Presidency of the…

Adopts Concluding Observations on the Reports of Cambodia, Colombia, Ireland, Israel and Uzbekistan The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon concluded its one hundredth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of…

Adopts Concluding Observations on the Reports of Burkina Faso, Cyprus, Latvia, Niger, Portugal and Uzbekistan The Committee against Torture this morning closed its sixty-eighth session after adopting concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Burkina Faso, Cyprus, Latvia,…

The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People was commemorated today at a Special Meeting held at the United Nations Office at Geneva. Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the meeting and read out the message of António Guterres,…

A Special Meeting will be held at the Palais des Nations on Friday, 29 November to mark the annual observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The Day traditionally provides an opportunity for the international community to focus its attention on the…

The United Nations Office at Geneva and a consortium of Italian and Swiss firms, called the Renovation Palais des Nations SA, have signed a contract for the largest and most complex part of the Strategic Heritage Plan renovation project at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The works are…

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concluded this morning its seventy-fourth session, during which it reviewed the reports of Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Lithuania and Seychelles on the implementation of the provisions of the…

Adopts Concluding Observations on the Reports of Belgium, Cabo Verde, Czech Republic, Mexico and Senegal The Human Rights Committee this afternoon closed its one hundred and twenty-seventh session after adopting concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Belgium, Cabo Verde…

At Thursday’s Humanitarian Task Force meeting in Geneva, Ms. Najat Rochdi and the UN senior humanitarian leadership in Damascus, Amman and Gaziantep briefed members of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) on the overall humanitarian situation in Syria and conducted advocacy on several…