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Geneva Press Briefing: WHO, UNCHR - 7.04.26
🎥Displacement and Medical situation in Lebanon 🎥 Rhetoric speeches against Iran 🎥 Death of a World Health Organization Contract Worker in Gaza 🎥 Announcements
MIDDLE EAST LIVE 7 April: Conflict continues as humanitarian and economic pressures mount
Hostilities continue across the Middle East, with ongoing strikes, rising civilian impacts and mounting pressure on critical infrastructure and humanitarian services. Attention is also turning to New York, where the Security Council is expected to vote on a Bahrain-led draft resolution concerning the situation in the Strait of Hormuz.
UNRWA - Press conference: Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General - 31.03.26
End of tenure press briefing by the outgoing UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
Geneva Press Briefing: IOM, UNHCR, WFP - 31.03.27
🎥 Syrian refugee returns from Lebanon; 🎥 Supply chain disruptions; 🎥 Sudan Response Plan; 🎥 Announcements
Happening at UN Geneva
Commemoration of the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
The International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, which was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2003. The date marks the beginning of the genocide perpetrated against members of the Tutsi minority by the Hutu extremist-led government. Within just over 100 days, more than 1 million Tutsi were systematically murdered.