The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities released its concluding observations and recommendations on the report of Spain today after concluding its one-week sixth session on 23 September 2011. The Committee commended the State party for the written…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the International Labour Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the High…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Labour Organization, the Human Rights Council, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the UN Refugee Agency, the…

Jorge Correia, the new Permanent Representative of the Republic of Angola to the United Nations Office at Geneva, presented his credentials today to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Correia had been the…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for World Health Organization, the Human Rights Council, the Economic Commission for Europe, the World Trade Organization, the World Meteorological…

Katerina Sequensova, the new Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the United Nations Office at Geneva, presented her credentials today to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. . Ms. Sequensova joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the…

Article on the 50th Anniversary of the death of Dag Hammarskjöld by Director-General Kassym-Jomart Tokayev 50th Anniversary of the death of Dag HammarskjöldDag Hammarskjöld – a man of honour and dignity Fifty years ago, on 18 September 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld died in a plane crash while on a peace…

The Conference on Disarmament, the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community, concludes its 2011 session this week. The first plenary session began on 25 January and it officially ends on Friday 16 September. Addressing the Conference on 26 January, the…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for and Representatives of the UN Refugee Agency, the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the International Telecommunication Union, the World Health…

The President of the Human Rights Council, Laura Dupuy Lasserre today appointed three high-level experts as members of the Commission of Inquiry to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law since March 2011 in the Syrian Arab Republic, as mandated by the Human Rights…