Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Initial Reports of Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia and the Philippines; Adopts Annual Report The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today concluded its tenth session…

The fifth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review Working Group will be held in Geneva from 4 to 15 February during which the next group of 16 States will have their human rights records examined under this new mechanism. The fifth group of States to be reviewed under the…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, under the Presidency of Ambassador Christian Strohal (Austria), today concluded its sixty-seventh session. At this session, the Council elected Austria as President, and Japan as one of the Vice-Presidents of the Governing…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the UN Refugee…

Ambassador Uhomoibhi Meets with President Lula Brasilia - - The President of the Human Rights Council, Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi (Nigeria), kicked off an official visit to Brazil on 27 April by meeting President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the Amazon city of Manaus. The visit of the Council…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its sixty-seventh session from 28 to 29 April 2009. At the opening plenary meeting, the Governing Council will elect a new president and one of the two vice-presidents of the Council to replace Belgium and Indonesia…

Marie Heuzé, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the press briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Environment…

The Meeting of Experts of the States Parties to Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) will take place from 22 to 24 April 2009 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Meeting of Experts constitutes the key integral part of the…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Durban Review Conference, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations…