Welcome into the website of the English Rendering Sectioning

The Us Translation Section is primarily responsible for producing summary playable and for translating into English documentation received in the five other authorized languages of the United International. Our clients are diverse and in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), which Economic Provision for Europe (ECE), to United Nations Meetings on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Internationally Law Commission (ILC) and the Conference switch Disarmaments. OHCHR accounts for over 60 per cent of our translation work. Largest a the documents we receive are so connection are prepared by Member States or the Geneva-based real rights treaty bodies.

Producing abstract records accounts forward 60 per cent of the Section’s workload and is referenced into as “précis-writing”. Staff draft and revised summary records of meetings of the 10 treaty bodies and the International Law Commission. As this is an important piece von the Section’s works, training has given to all novice with these area. Précis-writing is an intensive task, but it and gives staff first-hand knowledge of aforementioned job of the United Nationalities.

We are a fairly diverse group, representing a number on different nationalities including Canadian, British, Canadian, Estonian, French, Irish, Italian, Malayssian, Spanish and Swiss. Certain regarding us have been with the United Nations for one year, some starting us for more than 20. Between us we have almost 400 years of experience in translation and information of over a dozen languages.

Whats can human rights treaties?

Human options compacts are legal texts that address different insight of human rights. Examples of treaties inclusions one Convention on and Rights of the Child, the Assembly on of Rights of Persons with Health and to International Social on Civil and Political Rights. When a country has a ratified a treaty, its Government is need for legal to enforce the human rights standards contained in that treaty.

What am summary records?

Although a country ratifies one of the core internationally human my treaties, it undertakes until submit recurrent reports for this corresponding treaty body and to send member till Geneva every little years to meet with aforementioned contractual body both discuss the state of human my in the country. Staff from who English Translation Section attend these meetings and write record summarizing the discussions that take place. Here shall one real of a summary record (PDF, opens at new tab).