The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its forty-first regular session from 24 June to 12 July 2019 in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, will open the…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration…

La Conférence du désarmement a discuté, ce matin, du projet révisé de programme de travail proposé par le Président de la Conférence, l’Ambassadeur Jorge Valero de la République bolivarienne du Venezuela, après avoir entendu des déclarations de plusieurs délégations. En début de séance, le…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the…

Hussain Mahmood Alkhateeb, the new Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Alkhateeb had been serving as…

The Conference on Disarmament today held a thematic discussion on the prevention of an arms race in outer space, and also discussed a revised draft programme of work. Jorge Valero, President of the Conference on Disarmament and Permanent Representative of Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)…

The Conference on Disarmament today discussed items 5, 6 and 7 of its agenda concerning new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons, a comprehensive programme of disarmament, and transparency in armaments. The President of the Conference on Disarmament, Ambassador Jorge…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokesperson for the World Health Organization.Update on the International Labour Conference Alessandra Vellucci, for the United Nations Information Service in Geneva,…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by spokespersons for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the Special…

Arabic version During Thursday’s Humanitarian Task Force meeting, we heard firsthand reporting from our UN colleagues based in the region about the increasingly horrific brutality in recent weeks by all parties involved in the de-escalation area in northwestern Syria, which has caused significant…