GENEVA (16 January 2014) – The United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea will visit the United Kingdom from 24 to 31 January to hold meetings and collect testimonies and accounts on the human rights situation in Eritrea. The United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United…

The Conference on Disarmament, the world's single multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold the first public plenary of its 2015 session on Tuesday, 20 January at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will open under the presidency of Mexico. The presidency of the…

The twenty-first session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 19 to 30 January during which the next group of 14 States are scheduled to have their human rights records examined under this mechanism. The group of States to be…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, International Labour Organization, United Nations Development Programme, International Organization for Migration, United…

Yvette Morris, Chief, TV and Radio Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by the spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the…

Yvette Morris, Chief, TV and Radio Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Labour Organization, the International Organization of Migration and the United Nations Children’s Fund. Schools in…

Marcello Beccari, the new Permanent Representative of San Marino to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Beccari had been serving as Head of…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the Spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the reports of Sri Lanka, Burundi, Haiti, Malta, Montenegro and Israel The Human Rights Committee this afternoon concluded its one hundred and twelfth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Sri…