Le Comité des droits de l'homme a adopté, cet après-midi, un rapport sur le suivi des observations finales adoptées après l'examen des rapports soumis par les États parties au Pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques . Le Comité a aussi adopté un rapport sur le suivi de…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the International Organization for Migration, the World Food Programme, UN-Habitat, and the International Labour Organization. COVID-19…

  Le Comité pour l’élimination de la discrimination à l’égard des femmes a tenu, cet après-midi, une brève séance publique au cours de laquelle il a entendu une déclaration conjointe de trois organisations non gouvernementales. Il avait auparavant été saisi des rapports de ses groupes de…

  The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, under the Vice-Presidency of Belgium, concluded its eighty-seventh session today. Delegations from Iraq and Kuwait addressed the fifteen-member Governing Council at its opening plenary meeting. The Governing Council…

  Myint Thu, the new Permanent Representative of Myanmar 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. Thu had been serving as Ambassador of Myanmar…

AS DELIVERED   Thank you, Mr. President,   Today, I am briefing you from Beirut.   1. As we mark this month twenty years since the passage of Security Council resolution 1325, let me recall the central role that Syrian women must play and are indeed playing in the political…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by spokespersons of the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the…

  Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission to Hold its Eighty-seventh Session on 28 October   The United Nations Compensation Commission today made available $ 230 million to the Government of the State of Kuwait towards the Commission’s remaining claim with an…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its seventy-seventh online session. It heard a statement by Mahamane Cissé-Gouro, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch, Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division, Office of the United Nations…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the United Nations Environment…