The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today opened its remote sixty-ninth session, hearing opening remarks by Peggy Hicks, Director of the Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for…

  The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a resolution in which it called urgently for the immediate and unconditional release of all persons arbitrarily detained in Myanmar, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint and others, and the lifting of the state…

  « Un revers cinglant pour ce pays, après une décennie de progrès dans sa transition démocratique » : c’est ainsi que la prise de pouvoir par l'armée du Myanmar, au début de ce mois, a été analysée ce matin par la Haute-Commissaire adjointe aux droits de l’homme, Mme Nada Al-Nashif, devant…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the World Food Programme (WFP), the World Health…

  The Conference on Disarmament this morning continued to hear statements on the revised draft package on a programme of work for 2021 but did not reach consensus on it.   Ambassador Marc Pecsteen of Belgium, President of the Conference on Disarmament, introducing the revised proposal which…

  Alvaro Fernando Murillo Centeno, the new Permanent Representative of Nicaragua to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Murillo Centeno had…

  Muhammadou M.O. Kah, the new Permanent Representative of the Gambia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. With a career spanning more than three decades in higher education,…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Human Rights Council and the World Meteorological Organization. La Niña update Clare Nullis, for the World…

  The Human Rights Council will hold a special session on “the human rights implications of the crisis in Myanmar” on Friday, 12 February. The special session will take place in a mainly virtual format starting 10 a.m. from the Assembly Hall of the Palais des Nations. The decision was taken…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR),…