Dato' Nadzirah binti Osman, the new Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Osman had been serving as…

The Committee against Torture this morning opened its seventy-eighth session, which is being held in Geneva from 30 October to 24 November, during which it will review efforts by Burundi, Costa Rica, Denmark, Egypt, Kiribati and Slovenia to implement the provisions of the Convention against…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today closed its eighty-sixth session after adopting concluding observations on the reports of Albania, Bhutan, France, Guatemala, Jamaica, Malawi, Philippines and Uruguay, and provisional concluding observations on the report…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives from the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human…

Richard Kozul-Wright, Director, Division on Globalization and development Strategies Mutasim Elagraa, Coordinator, UNCTAD Assistance to the Palestinian People

Rolando Gómez, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and the World Health Organization. Dire…

  Le Comité pour l’élimination de la discrimination à l’égard des femmes (CEDAW) a examiné, cet après-midi, en l’absence de délégation de l’État partie, le rapport valant septième à dixième rapports périodiques du Nicaragua au titre de la Convention sur l’élimination de toutes les formes de…

M. Abdallah Saleh Possi a présenté aujourd'hui à Mme Tatiana Valovaya, Directrice générale de l’Office des Nations Unies à Genève, les pouvoirs l'accréditant comme Représentant permanent de la République-Unie de Tanzanie auprès de l'Office. Avant sa nomination à Genève, M. Possi était…

Ferran Costa Marimon, the new Permanent Representative of Andorra to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.  Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Costa Marimon had been serving…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today concluded its consideration of the tenth periodic report of Uruguay, with Committee Experts commending the State’s commitment to implementing the Convention, while asking about women’s access to justice and actions being…