Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to today’s Security Council meeting on children and armed conflict in New York: I am grateful to you and the members of the Council for...

The Commission on Human Rights' Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Asma Jahangir, and its Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic...

Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women 590th and 591st Meetings (AM and PM) Noting that Switzerland was in the forefront of many human rights issues, the expert members of the...

Security Council 4684th Meeting (AM & PM) Report Identifies 23 Parties to Conflicts On Council’s Agenda That Continue to Recruit, Use Children By naming the parties that continued to recruit or use...

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen -– and Happy New Year! We start the year with anxiety –- anxiety over the prospect of war in Iraq, over nuclear proliferation in the Korean Peninsula, and over what...

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General is extremely concerned by the level of violence and growing number of casualties in...

Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women 589th Meeting (AM) The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women -- the monitoring body for the implementation of the...