The Human Rights Council will hold its thirty-second regular session from 13 June to 1 July 2016 in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The three-week session will include a high-level panel discussion on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of…

Arabic version Geneva (Issued as received) – Crimes against humanity have been committed in a widespread and systematic manner in Eritrean detention facilities, military training camps and other locations across the country over the past 25 years, according to a new report by the UN Commission of…

Ahmad Fawzi, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration. Geneva activities Committees The…

Ahmad Fawzi, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration, the…

Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Eight States and General Comment on Public Budgets to Realize the Rights of the Child The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon concluded its seventy-second session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director a.i. of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration and the World Health Organization…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director, a.i., United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, the…

Anna Korka, the new Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Korka had been serving as Greece’s Ambassador to…

Following the joint press stake-out earlier today in Geneva between the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura and Senior Advisor, Jan Egeland, the Special Envoy briefed the Security Council on the current situation in Syria. This was his first briefing to the Council since the…

The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in Jableh and Tartous, Syria, on 23 May, for which Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as Da’esh) claimed responsibility, during which more than a hundred people were killed and injured.…