Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the International…

Thank you very much, since this has been an intense period you would forgive me if I read some points and then of course I will take questions and be a little bit more informal but I need to be a little bit formal because after all, this is the fourth round of the intra-Syrian talks which have just…

Adopts Concluding Observations on the Reports of Ukraine, Ireland, Jordan, El Salvador, Germany, Sri Lanka, Rwanda and Micronesia The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon concluded its sixty-sixth session after adopting concluding observations and…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Development Programme, the Human Rights Council, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the International…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee today concluded its eighteenth session, which was held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 20 to 24 February 2017. At the closing meeting on 24 February, the Advisory Committee, a body of 18 independent experts serving as a think-tank to the United…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration, the World Health…

Good evening, Today the Special Envoy de Mistura has started discussing how the process and the efforts he started can now move forward on all aspects of these issues identified in SCR 2254. Following yesterday’s welcoming speech that he delivered in the room behind me, we have now entered in depth…

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon closed its sixtieth session. The week-long session focused on substantive issues, including a discussion day on the draft General Comment on business and human rights. In closing remarks, Virginia Bras Gomes, Chairperson of the…

SdM: Syrian women who are Syrian mothers, Syrian wives, Syrian daughters, who are representing symbolically all those Syrian men, women, sometimes children who are being arrested, abducted or missing, both by the government, by the opposition they are being abducted or missing in this horrible…

Good evening, I think you will have access to, and you have had an access to the welcoming speech, to all those which have been invited, which took place about half an hour ago, so I will not repeat or reiterate or elaborate what I said because you have it in front of you, and if you don’t my…