The Human Rights Committee today concluded its second reading of a draft general comment on the obligations of State parties under Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which sets out the rights to hold an opinion without interference, and to freedom of expression. Continuing their review from paragraph 18, […]
Delegations Commend Efforts by Peacebuilding Commission, Fund in Endeavour to Sustain Assistance to Countries Shattered by Conflict As the General Assembly today considered the recent progress reports of the two key bodies of the United Nations peacebuilding architecture, delegates gave generally favourable reviews of their track records in responding to the needs and challenges […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Paris on Saturday, 19 March, to co-chair an international meeting on Libya with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. He flew in from Madrid with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whom he had met on an official visit to Spain one day earlier. The Secretary-General briefed the […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled to Madrid, Spain, from Guatemala on Friday, 18 March. He met Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Foreign Minister Trinidad Jiménez, and followed that meeting with a working luncheon with the Prime Minister and his senior aides. Talking to the press after his meeting with the Spanish […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on Tuesday night, 15 March. The visit to Guatemala was his first since becoming Secretary-General. On Wednesday morning, the Secretary-General met with Nobel Peace Price Laureate Rigoberta Menchu He then travelled to the National Palace of Culture where, together with President Álvaro Colom Caballeros, […]
The Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia has agreed on the urgent need to adopt a comprehensive approach to combating the scourge and its causes, the Permanent Representative of Turkey, Chairperson of the Group, told correspondents this afternoon. ?Contact Group participants called upon the international community to provide the forces and […]
Delegation Concede Need to Enhance Investigations, Strengthen Penalties Citing critical gaps between a number of admittedly excellent laws and proposed legislative amendments on the one hand, and the actual status of civil and political rights in Serbia on the other, experts of the Human Rights Committee pressed that country today to do more on […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General is concerned about the reported killing of demonstrators in Der’a, Syria, today. The use of lethal force against peaceful demonstrators and their arbitrary arrests are unacceptable. The Secretary-General urges the Syrian authorities to refrain from violence and to […]
NEW YORK, 15 March (Office of Legal Affairs) ? Killey Mwitasi of the United Republic of Tanzania, the twenty-third recipient of the Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Memorial Fellowship on the Law of the Sea, completed his fellowship today with the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs, where he […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General is shocked by the firing of mortars, allegedly from a military camp of forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, into a market area in the Abobo district of Abidjan on 18 March, which resulted in the killing of at least […]
