The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its eighty-ninth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Spain, Oman, Rwanda, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Namibia on their implementation of the provisions of the International…

The Committee against Torture this morning concluded its fifty-seventh session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of France, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the Philippines and Israel on their implementation of the provisions of the Convention against…

SdeM: Good morning everybody. We have just terminated a long but intense and useful meeting from the Humanitarian taskforce, so I will leave the floor actually to my colleague and friend, Jan Egeland. The only thing I wanted you to know is that please do not ask any questions regarding the…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director, a.i., United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Refugee Agency.UN…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the United Nations Children’s Fund. UN Secretary-General Mr. LeBlanc said…

Mustafa Osman Ismail Elamin, the new Permanent Representative of Sudan 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. Elamin had been Minister of…

Thank you so much for organizing this opportunity. Merci beaucoup pour être tous ensemble dans le même message. The message is very clear. I was the other day in Geneva where I met John Kerry and the Minister of Foreign affairs of Saudi Arabia. I was yesterday in Moscow to meet Sergei Lavrov the…

The horrific fighting and bombardment in recent days, especially in and around Aleppo, is creating new areas with endless suffering and no access for humanitarians. So, the diplomats sitting in the ISSG are faced with the following dilemma. They seem to be having new possible besieged areas on our…

SE de Mistura: First of all, thank you Minister Lavrov and thanks to your colleagues for having allowed the possibility for an urgent, sort of, consultation which we have been very eager to have with yourself, even on a holiday today. The main priority/reason why, as you know, I came here was of…

Michele Zaccheo, Chief, Radio and Television Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the International Organization for Migration. Geneva activities Committees The Committee…