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Geneva Press Briefing: WHO - 5.11.24
🎦 Update on the health situation in Gaza; 🎦 First WHO list of top endemic pathogens for which new vaccines are urgently needed
Lebanon's injured, displaced children desperately need support - UNICEF - 1.11.24
UNICEF head Catherine Russell said on Thursday that according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, 166 children have been killed since October 2023, while at least 1,168 have been injured. The violence has already pushed more than 400,000 children to flee their homes.
Geneva Press Briefing: WFP, OCHA, WMO, WHO - 1.11.24
🎦 Rising hunger in South Sudan; 🎦 Lebanon humanitarian update; 🎦 Questions on UNRWA; 🎦 Devastating floods in Spain; 🎦 Response to Mpox outbreak in Africa;
#3Minutes | Global Media and Information Literacy Week
Global Media and Information Literacy Week by UNESCO: in #3Minutes, we explain everything you need to know about disinformation and how we can each take action to combat this scourge.
Happening at UN Geneva
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)
The Human Rights Committee is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by its States parties.
The Committee's work promotes the enjoyment of civil and political rights, resulting in numerous changes of law, policy and practice. As such, it has improved the lives of individuals in all parts of the world. It continues to strive to ensure all the civil and political rights guaranteed by the Covenant can be enjoyed in full and without discrimination, by all people.
Committee Against Torture (CAT)
The Committee Against Torture (CAT) 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.
The Committee against Torture works to hold States accountable for human rights violations, systematically investigating reports of torture in order to stop and prevent this crime.
47th 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.
