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…

Moshe Neo Kao, the new Permanent Representative of Lesotho 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, Mr. Kao had been working as an independent consultant in…

The Secretary-General is encouraged that the Syrians, who have accepted the United Nations invitation to be in Geneva in the context of the resumption of the intra-Syrian talks, sat together in the same room today. He commends the work of his Special Envoy in bringing this about and for resuming…

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…

For Arabic version please scroll down. Excellencies, ladies and gentleman: Welcome, Welcome, to the welcoming speech of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General [of the United Nations] for Syria. On behalf of the Secretary-General, welcome to the UN Palace in Geneva. Let me thank you for…

Thank you for all of you to be here, I’m convinced it will be worthwhile. We are going to give a serious try. This round is taking place again at the time when we want to give a chance to the Syrian people, to the Syria parties to try to have some type of dialogue leading more beyond than just a…

43rd meeting of Gali Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism Russian version On 22 February 2017, the 43rd meeting of the Gali joint Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place under the chairmanship of the United Nations. The atmosphere during the discussions was positive…

The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its thirty-fourth regular session from 27 February to 24 March 2017 in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will address the opening session, along…