Match for Solidarity to be Played in Geneva, with Funds Raised for Humanitarian and Development Projects The United Nations Office at Geneva and UEFA have announced today that they will join forces to organise a solidarity football match, with the support of the Republic and Canton of Geneva,…

KUALA LUMPUR (Issued as received) – UN human rights experts wrapped up this weekend a five-day visit to Malaysia, during which they focused their inquiries on recent human rights violations and abuses allegedly committed in Myanmar. In Malaysia, the experts – members of the Independent…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Food Programme, the International Organization for Migration…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the Reports of Algeria, Australia, Belarus, Jordan, Serbia and Slovakia The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon concluded its ninety-fourth session after adopting its concluding observations and…

Adopts Concluding Recommendations on Reports of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Italy, Mauritius, Republic of Moldova, Rwanda and Timor-Leste The Committee against Torture today concluded its sixty-second session after adopting concluding observations and recommendations on the…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the International Organization for Migration, the World Health Organization, the World…

The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its special session on the human rights situation of the minority Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. In a resolution, the Council condemned the alleged systematic and gross violations of human rights and abuses…

Geneva, 4 December 2017 (Issued as received) -- The Human Rights Council this afternoon elected Ambassador Vojislav Šuc, Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, to serve as its President for a one-year term beginning on 1 January 2018. The Council also appointed…

The 2017 Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) will be held at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 4 to 8 December 2017. This is the first such meeting in the new 2017-2020 intersessional process that was mandated by the Eighth BWC Review Conference in 2016…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations…