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Marcia Vaune Jocelyn Kran OC is a Canadian lawyer and expert member of the UN Human Rights Committee. [1] [2] Kran's career has spanned international human rights law, criminal law and political science for over forty years, and includes positions in academia and civil society.
The Office of Legal Affairs, through its Treaty Section, discharges the depositary functions of the Secretary-General under more than 560 multilateral treaties, including the custody of originals and the receipt of signatures and instruments of ratification, accession, etc.
The UN General Assembly in December 2008 authorized the establishment of the Office of Staff Legal Assistance (OSLA) to strengthen "professional legal assistance for staff" to succeed the Panel of Counsel. [1]: para(S) 12–13 OSLA has offices in New York, Addis Ababa, Beirut, Geneva and Nairobi. [1]: para 14
The United Nations Office at Geneva in Switzerland is the second biggest U.N. centre after the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.. United Nations Specialized Agencies are autonomous organizations working with the United Nations and each other through the co-ordinating machinery of the United Nations Economic and Social Council at the intergovernmental level, and through the Chief ...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), based in The Hague, is one of the principal organs of the United Nations. The court consists of 15 judges, with five judges elected every three years. In the case of death or other vacancy, a judge is elected for the remainder of the term.
The United Nations Secretariat is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), [1] [2] The secretariat is the UN's executive arm. The secretariat has an important role in setting the agenda for the deliberative and decision-making bodies of the UN (i.e., the General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, and Security Council), and the implementation of the decision of these bodies.
By Kylie Madry. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico is doing everything it can to protect a regional trade agreement with the U.S. and Canada, the Latin American nation's deputy economy minister said in ...
OHCHR presence at the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in Kenya. The mandate of OHCHR derives from Articles 1, 13 and 55 of the Charter of the United Nations, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and General Assembly resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, by which the Assembly established the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. [7]