The Committee on Enforced Disappearances closed its tenth session today after hearing statements by Juan Jose Lopez Ortega, Committee Rapporteur, and Emmanuel Decaux, Committee Chairperson. Juan Jose Lopez Ortega, Committee Rapporteur, presenting the report of the tenth session, said that the…

The announcement by President Putin on the very day of the beginning of this round of Intra-Syrian Talks in Geneva is a significant development, which we hope will have a positive impact on the progress of the negotiations in Geneva aimed at achieving a political solution of the Syrian conflict and…

GENEVA (Issued as received) – A Russian woman who was denied employment at the helm of a boat because the job was on a list of banned occupations for women in the Russian Federation suffered gender-based discrimination, UN experts have found. The experts, from the Committee on the Elimination of…

Michele Zaccheo, Chief, Radio and Television Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office for the…

On 11 March 2016, Bahrain joined the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) and its Protocol III on Incendiary Weapons, Protocol IV on Blinding Laser Weapons and Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War. Bahrain is now the 122nd State Party to the CCW. Ambassador Tehmina Janjua of Pakistan…

Arabic versionAfter five years of a brutal and senseless conflict over a quarter of a million Syrians have been killed and over half the population forced from their homes out of fear and want. Some 4.6 million people are barely existing in places that few can leave and aid cannot reach. A…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director, a.i, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Refugee…

Abdelouhab Derbal, the new Permanent Observer of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his letter of nomination to Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Derbal, an…

Tudor Ulianovschi, the new Permanent Representative of the Republic of Moldova to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Mr. Ulianovschi will be accredited as Ambassador of the Republic of…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director, a.i, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the Office for the…