Following is the statement made this morning by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, at the opening of the Special Session of the World Health Assembly, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva: "It is a distinct honour…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the Information Service of the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons for and Representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Relief and…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, meeting under the Presidency of Ambassador Tassos Kriekoukis (Greece), today concluded its sixty-first session. Representatives of Kuwait, Iraq, and India addressed the fifteen-member Governing Council at its opening plenary…

Adopts Final Conclusions and Recommendations on Reports of Honduras, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine and Republic of Korea The Human Rights Committee concluded today its eighty-eighth session, during which it considered and adopted concluding observations and recommendations on the reports…

Adopts Observations and Recommendations on Initial Report of Mexico The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today presented its concluding observations and recommendations on the initial report of Mexico, which it considered during this…

Marie Heuzé, Director of the Information Service of the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Meteorological…

The Eighth Annual Conference of the States Parties to the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices (Amended Protocol II), annexed to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be…

Conference to celebrate entry into force of Protocol on explosive remnants of war The Third Review Conference of States Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate…

Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), and Theodor Winkler, the Director of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), co-chaired on 31 October 2006 a joint seminar entitled “Security Sector Reform in Post-Conflict…

Marie Heuzé, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which also heard from Spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Development Fund, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United…