Prof Petteri Taalas, WMO Secretary-General Dr Maria Neira, Director Department, of Environment, Climate Change and Health, WHO Dr Joy Shumake-Guillemot, joint WMO-WHO Office on Climate and Health

  GENEVA (30 October 2023) – In a significant move towards energy conservation, the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) will sign the “Ambition Negawatt Vision” Charter with water, gas, and electricity company Services Industriels de Genève (SIG) to pledge its commitment to saving energy…

Le Comité contre la torture (CAT) a examiné, hier matin et cet après-midi, le rapport périodique soumis par le Burundi au titre de la Convention contre la torture et autres peines ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou dégradants. « La violation du droit à la vie est une réalité au Burundi…

Le Comité des droits de l'homme a adopté, ce matin, son rapport sur le suivi des observations finales adressées aux États parties au Pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques à l’issue de l’examen de leurs rapports.  Ce rapport concerne le suivi des observations…

Rolando Gómez, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives from the World Health Organization, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner…

M. Djacoba Andry Solofonirina Oliva Tehindrazanarivelo 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 de Madagascar auprès de l'Office. Avant sa nomination à…

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…