The Human Rights Council will hold a special session on Friday, 17 December, to address the “grave human rights situation in Ethiopia”. The special session is being convened following an official request submitted on 13 December by the European Union. In order for a special session to be…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, the Human Rights Council, the UN Refugee Agency, the Food and Agriculture…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the World Food Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the…

  Le Comité pour l'élimination de la discrimination raciale a clos cet après-midi les travaux de sa cent cinquième session, qui s’était ouverte le 15 novembre dernier à Genève et s’est déroulée en présentiel sous la présidence de Mme Yanduan Li, de la Chine. Lors de la séance de clôture cet…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Situation in…

  The Committee against Torture this morning closed its seventy-second session after adopting its concluding observations on the reports of Bolivia, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Serbia and Sweden, and on the situation in Nigeria in the absence of an initial report. Committee Chairperson Claude…

Colin Murdoch, the new Permanent Observer of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his letter of nomination to Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.  Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr.…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development,…

  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…

  Le Comité contre la torture s'est penché aujourd'hui sur le suivi de ses observations finales (adoptées à l'issue de l'examen des rapports des États parties en vertu de l'article 19 de la Convention contre la torture et autres peines ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou dégradants), ainsi…