During the Press Conference, which was held, subsequent to the end of the fifty-eighth and final session of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, the Chairperson of the session, Marc Bossuyt, said the Human Rights Council had decided that the Sub-Commission would have…

The new Ambassador of the Netherlands, Boudewijn J. van Eenennaam, this afternoon presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikdze, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. van Eedennaam was Ambassador of The Netherlands to the United States…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons for United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, World Food Programme, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which also heard from Spokespersons for the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the International…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which also heard from Spokespersons for the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the International…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which also heard from Spokespersons for the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the International…

Mauricio Montalvo Samaniego, the new Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Montalvo Samaniego had been…

Addressing a press conference at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, the United Nations' top humanitarian official said "the civilian population in Lebanon and in northern Israel have been the biggest losers in this senseless cycle of violence that is now exactly one month old". Under-Secretary-…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations High Commissioner for…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which also heard from Spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the UN Refugee…