Pascal Peduzzi, Director, UNEP/GRID-Geneva Arnaud Vander Velpen, Sand industry & data analytics officer, UNEP/GRID-Geneva

Paul Holtom, Head of Conventional Arms and Ammunition Programme, UNIDIR Mary Wareham, Human Rights Watch Arms Advocacy Director Loren Persi, Monitor Impact research team editor Susan Aboeid, Production Manager, Cluster Munition Monitor 2023        

Omar Baddour, chief of climate monitoring at WMO Wilfran Moufouma Okia, head of regional climate prediction services at WMO

The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning opened its ninety-fourth session, which is being held in Geneva from 4 to 22 September, during which the Committee will review reports on the efforts of Albania, Andorra, Dominican Republic, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein and Togo to uphold the…

  Tripoli, 31 August 2023  Since late 2020, the Libyan government has found solutions for 80% of internally displaced persons working with communities to help address their issues. Concluding his four-day visit to the country, where he met with government officials and internally…

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 Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon closed its one hundred and tenth session, during which it reviewed the reports of Croatia, Italy, Namibia, Senegal, Turkmenistan and Uruguay.  Verene Albertha Shepherd, Committee Chairperson, said the…

  The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded its consideration of the combined second and third periodic report of Paraguay on its implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.  Committee Experts said they were pleased to…

Michal Balcerzak (Vice Chair) Régine Esseneme, Committee member Stamatia Stavrinaki, Vice Chairperson

Carlos D. Sorreta, the new Permanent Representative of Philippines 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. Sorreta was serving as the…