Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the World Meteorological Organization, the Economic Commission for Europe, the International Labour Organization, the World Trade…

Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, It has been a long time that I haven’t been back in this room but it is good to meet you here this afternoon. And I am happy to be able to join you this afternoon with General Mood whom you all know. I am pleased that he could join us. He is on his way back from…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the International Organization for Migration, the Human Rights Council, the UN Refugee Agency, the World Food…

Issues Concluding Observations on Algeria, Australia, Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, Nepal and Viet Nam The Committee on the Rights of the Child today published its concluding observations and recommendations on 11 country reports from seven countries: six on the main Convention (Algeria, Australia,…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the Economic Commission for Europe, the Human Rights Council, the International Organization for Migration, the…

Shalva Tsiskarashvili, the new Permanent Representative of Georgia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Tsiskarashvili had been serving…

The 2012 Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East, organized by the United Nations Department of Public Information in cooperation with the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, closed in Geneva, Switzerland this afternoon. The general feeling of the Seminar was that the two-State…

The 2012 Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East held two panel discussions to explore the impact of the Arab Spring on media coverage of the question of Palestine and to examine the role of women’s activism and the media in Israeli-Palestinian peace and the wider region on 12 June in the…

The 2012 Media Seminar on Peace this morning held two panel discussions in which it explored civil society in media and film in the Middle East, and youth activism in the Middle East: evolving attitudes towards and tools for social change and democracy. The first panel of the day on civil society…

Alessandra Vellucci, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Joint Special Envoy (JSE) of the UN and the League of Arab States for the Syrian Crisis, the UN Conference on Trade…