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Geneva Press Briefing: OHCHR, IFRC, UNMAS, WHO - 26.04.24
🎦 UN Human Rights on Iran hijab law and Sudan's El Fasher situation, 🎦 The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies on Afghanistan and 🎦 United Nations Mine Action Service on the 27th International Meeting of Mine Action National Directors and United Nations Advisers.
Gaza’s unexploded ordnance could take 14 years to clear - 26.04.24
Making Gaza safe again from unexploded bombs could take 14 years, UN demining experts said on Friday.
‘Just in case’ antibiotics widely overused during COVID-19, says UN health agency - 26.04.24
Antibiotics saw “extensive overuse” globally among hospitalized COVID-19 patients during the pandemic without improving clinical outcomes, while also potentially exacerbating the already serious and growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, the UN World Health Organization (WHO)
Gaza: Heatwave brings new misery and disease risk to Rafah - 26.04.24
Unexpected blistering temperatures across Gaza have added to the daily misery faced by the enclave’s people and sparked new fears of disease outbreaks amid a lack of sufficient clean water and waste disposal, UN humanitarians said on Thursday.
Happening at UN Geneva
46th Session of Universal Periodic Review
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique mechanism of the Human Rights Council that calls for each UN Member State to undergo a peer review of its human rights records every 4.5 years. The UPR provides each State the opportunity to regularly:
- Report on the actions it has taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and to overcome challenges to the enjoyment of human rights; and
- Receive recommendations – informed by multi-stakeholder input and pre-session reports – from UN Member States for continuous improvement.
Committee Against Torture (CAT)
The Committee Against Torture (CAT) and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment is the body of 10 independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment by its States parties. CAT works to hold States accountable for human rights violations, systematically investigating reports of torture in order to stop and prevent this crime. Over the course of its 79th session, it will examine Austria , Honduras , Azerbaijan , Liechtenstein , North Macedonia and Finland.
