Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by the Spokespersons for Office for the World Health Organization, World Food Programme, United Nations Refugee Agency, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian…

Wu Hailong, the new Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Wu had been serving as Head of the Mission of…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Labour Organization, International Organization for Migration, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations…

Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Honduras, Montenegro, Belgium, Poland, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg and Switzerland The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its eighty-fourth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee will hold its twelfth session at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 24 to 28 February 2014. During the session, the Committee, a body of 18 independent experts serving as a think-tank to the United Nations Human Rights Council, will work on requests…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Programme, the…

JSRS: Good day to you all, thank you for coming on a Saturday. We’ve just held our last meeting for this session. It was as laborious as all the meetings we have had but we agreed on an agenda for the next round, when it does take place. The agenda is of four points that we have been discussing…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service at Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for and representatives of the Human Rights Council, the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the…

Near verbatim transcript of press conference by Joint Special Representative for Syria (JSRS) Lakhdar Brahimi Geneva, 13 February 2014JSRS : Good evening everyone. We just had a two hours meeting with Wendy Sherman, Under-Secretary of State from the United States and Gennady Gatilov, Deputy…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Trade Centre, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food…