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#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.
Geneva Press Briefing: OHCHR, WHO, FAO, UNICEF, OCHA - 29.10.24
🎦 IOM on Sudan: Increasing displacement and deteriorating humanitarian situation; 🎦 UN Human Rights on Sudan: Escalating violence in Al Jazirah – reports more than 100 killed in recent days; 🎦 WHO/FAO on healthy diets.
IOM - Press Briefing - 29.10.24
Amy Pope, IOM Director General's Visit to Port Sudan
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) - Press Conference - 28.10.24
Annual WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin with Ko Barrett, WMO Deputy Secretary-General and Oksana Tarasova, WMO Senior Scientific Officer
Happening at UN Geneva
2024 International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East
This annual special information programme aims to raise awareness of the question of Palestine and promote a peaceful settlement to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
It also aims to bring together journalists, media experts, think tanks, diplomats and members of academia from Israel, Palestine, the wider Middle East, Europe, the United States and other parts of the world to discuss media-related dynamics and trends connected to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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.