The 2012 Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East opened today at the International Geneva Conference Centre in Geneva, Switzerland. The Seminar will focus on the role of the media in covering different aspects of recent events in the Middle East, especially the Arab Spring, and how they relate…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the World Trade Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Food Programme, the UN…

The three Co-chairs of the Geneva International Discussions, Philippe Lefort, European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus and for the crisis in Georgia; Antti Turunen, United Nations Representative to the Geneva International Discussions and the Joint Incident Prevention and…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the International Labour Organization, the International Organization for Migration and the UN Refugee Agency.…

Nanguyalai Tarzi, the new Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Tarzi had been serving as…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Labour Organization, the Human Rights Council, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the International…

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Albania, Armenia, Canada, Cuba, Czech Republic, Greece and Rwanda, and in Absence of a Special Report on Syria The Committee against Torture concluded its forty-eighth session today, issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on reports…

Requests Commission of Inquiry to Urgently Conduct a Special Inquiry into the Events in El Houleh and Condemns in the Harshest Terms the Killings The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded a Special Session to examine the deteriorating human rights situation in Syria and the recent…

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on Friday, 1 June on the deteriorating human rights situation in Syria and the recent killings in El-Houleh. This will be the Council’s nineteenth Special Session and its fourth Special Session on Syria. The request for the Special Session was…

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