The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on "the negative impact on the realization of the right to food of the worsening world food crisis, caused inter alia by the soaring food prices", on Thursday, 22 May, in room XIX of the Palais des Nations. The Special Session was called by Cuba…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section 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 UN Children’s…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section 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 United Nations Children’s Fund, the…

Shinichi Kitajima, the new Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Kitajima had been serving as Permanent…

Marie Heuzé, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the UN Refugee Agency, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East…

The second session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 5 to 19 May during which 16 States will have their human rights records examined under this new mechanism. The second group of States to be reviewed under…

John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, briefed journalists this afternoon in Geneva on the world food crisis. Yesterday, at a press conference in Bern, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the decision to establish a United Nations…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also addressed by Spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, the UN Refugee Agency and the…

Following is a transcript of the remarks by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Foof and Agriculture Organization Director-General Jacques Diouf, World Bank President, Robert Zoellick, and World Trade Organization Director-General, Pascal Lamy, made at a press conference in Bern on 29…

The United Nations Compensation Commission has made available today a total of $972,451,530.00 to four Governments for distribution to 26 successful claimants. Payment is being made in respect of 8 claims in category E (claims of corporations and public sector enterprises) and 18 claims in…