Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva chaired the briefing which was also attended by spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this afternoon concluded its third session during which it adopted six recommendations and its report to the Human Rights Council. Among the recommendations adopted, the Advisory Committee submitted for the consideration of the Human Rights Council a…

Kiyotaka Akasaka, UN Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, briefed the press this morning on the first-ever annual Global Model United Nations Conference; the first UN simulation organized by the UN itself. The conference is taking place in Geneva at the Palais des…

Following is the statement by Kiyotaka Akasaka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, to the opening session of the 2009 Global Model United Nations Conference at the Assembly Hall of the Palais des Nations in Geneva today: “Welcome to the very…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Officer-in-charge of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was attended by Spokespersons for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNAIDS and the World Health…

To mark the start of the second half of the Secretary-General’s 100-day “WMD-We Must Disarm” countdown campaign to the International Day of Peace on 21 September, the United Nations has launched a competition to find the best short film on the issue of nuclear disarmament and/or non-proliferation.…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was attended by spokespersons for and representatives of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Food Programme, the United Nations…

Adopts Recommendations on the Reports of Tanzania, the Netherlands, Chad and Azerbaijan and on the Situation of Civil and Political Rights in Grenada The Human Rights Committee concluded today its ninety-sixth session, during which it considered and adopted concluding observations and…

Dell Higgie, the new Permanent Representative of New Zealand to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to her appointment to Geneva, from 2003 to the present, Ms. Higgie had…

The third session of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee will be held from 3 to 7 August 2009 in Room XX of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. During the session, the Committee will consider requests addressed to it stemming from Human Rights Council resolutions and is expected to continue…