Adopts Final Conclusions and Recommendations on Reports of the Central African Republic, the United States and UNMIK The Human Rights Committee concluded today its eighty-seventh session, during which it considered and adopted concluding observations and recommendations on the reports submitted…

The United Nations Compensation Commission has made available today a total of $ 396,488,991.74 to four Governments for distribution to 31 successful claimants. Payment is being made in respect of six claims in category D (claims of individuals for damages above $100,000), six claims in category E…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, chaired the briefing, which also heard from Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the World Food Programme (WFP), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children…

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

Marie Heuzé, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund,…

Marie Heuzé, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the UN Refugee Agency, the World Food Programme and the International…

The President of the Paralympic Federation of Afghanistan, Haji Abdul Rahman Mohammadi, presented today to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva and Under-Secretary-General, Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, a gift of the Association of Afghan War Handicapped to the United Nations. The…

Palais des Nations, 10 July 2006 The President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Ambassador Ali Hachani, and the Senior United Nations System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza, Mr. David Nabarro, who also is the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for the Avian and Human…

Sejdi Qerimaj, the new Permanent Representative of Albania 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. Qerimaj had been serving, since 2000, as a…