Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Initial Report of El Salvador The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today concluded its ninth session after issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on the initial…

States Parties to Promote Effective Action on Biosafety, Biosecurity, Oversight, Education, Awareness-raising and Codes of Conduct The Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) for 2008 will be held in the United Nations Office at Geneva from 1 to 5 December. Chaired…

The third session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group will be held in Geneva from 1 to 15 December during which 16 States will have their human rights records examined under this new mechanism. The third group of States to be reviewed under the Universal Periodic…

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on the situation of human rights in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Friday, 28 November, in room XVII of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Special Session was called by France on behalf of Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the world Food Programme, the UN Refugee Agency…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the UN Refugee Agency, the United Nations…

Issues Conclusions on Reports of Nicaragua, Sweden, Kenya, the Philippines and Angola and on Situation in Kosovo on Basis of a Document Submitted by UNMIKC The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concluded its forty-first session today, after issuing its concluding observations and…

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Lithuania, Serbia, Kazakhstan, China, Montenegro, Belgium and Kenya The Committee against Torture today concluded its forty-first session, issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on reports from Lithuania, Serbia, Kazakhstan, China (…

Omar Hilale, the new Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Hilale had been serving as Secretary-General…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Labour Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the…