Today, the United Nations Compensation Commission made available $629,324,488 to the Government of the State of Kuwait towards the Commission’s remaining claim with an outstanding award balance. With this payment, all claimants awarded compensation by the Commission have now received the…

  The Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) concluded the second part of its Winter Session on 11 January 2022. In the first part of the Winter Session, the Inspectors elected Inspector Gopinathan Achamkulangare (India) as Chair and Inspector Tesfa Alem Seyoum (Eritrea) as Vice-Chair of the Unit for…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Meteorological Organization, the International Labour…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the virtual briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the World Food Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Office for the Coordination of…

  M. Orlando José Tardencilla a présenté aujourd'hui à Mme Tatiana Valovaya, Directrice générale de l’Office des Nations Unies à Genève, les pouvoirs l'accréditant comme Représentant permanent du Nicaragua auprès de l'Office. Avant sa nomination à Genève, M. Tardencilla était, depuis 2012,…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the virtual briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Refugee Agency and the World Health Organization. Pakistan issues smartcards to registered Afghan…

  Paul Empole Efambe, the new Permanent Representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 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. Empole…

  Febrian Ruddyard, the new Permanent Representative of Indonesia 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. Ruddyard served as Director General…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the virtual briefing, attended by the spokespersons of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the UN Office for the Coordination of…

  Le Conseil des droits de l’homme a achevé, cet après-midi, sa trente-troisième session extraordinaire - ouverte ce matin - consacrée à « la situation grave des droits de l’homme en Éthiopie ». Par 21 voix pour, 15 voix contre et 11 abstentions, il a adopté une résolution intitulée «…