Myint Thu, the new Permanent Representative of Myanmar to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Thu had been serving as Ambassador of Myanmar…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by spokespersons of the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the…

  The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its seventy-seventh online session. It heard a statement by Mahamane Cissé-Gouro, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch, Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division, Office of the United Nations…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the United Nations Environment…

Geneva, 22 October 2020 – The Palais des Nations and the Jet d'eau in Geneva, as well as the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, will be among more than 180 emblematic buildings and monuments in Europe to be illuminated in blue on the evening of Saturday, 24 October to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Labour…

  The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon concluded its virtual sixty-eighth session. In his concluding remarks, Renato Zerbini Ribeiro Leão, Committee Chairperson, noting that this had been a busy session and the first one held virtually, said the consideration…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations…

  Lazhar Soualem, the new Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Soualem had been serving as Director…

  Slavica Milačić, the new Permanent Representative of Montenegro to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Milačić had been serving as the…