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UN Geneva Press Briefing: IOM, IFRC, OCHA, FAO, WFP, WHO, ECW - 23.06.26
🎥 Heat Wave in Europe; 🎥 FAO priorities in Syria; 🎥 ECW’s New Global Estimates Report ; 🎥Newborn screening can prevent birth defects becoming a growing cause of child death and disability; 🎥 Ebola outbreak; OHCHR on Sudan; 🎥 El Niño: an Appeal for Anticipatory Action; 🎥 OCHA: USD 10 million to gender projects in eight countries; 🎥 Announcements.
Special Address on the Global Response to the Climate and Energy Crises by the UN Secretary-General - 23.06.26
António Guterres draws on the latest scientific evidence to show how the worsening climate crisis and growing energy insecurity are rooted in continued fossil fuels dependence.
One child killed in Gaza every day since October 2025 ceasefire, reports UNICEF - 19.06.26
Since the ceasefire was announced in October 2025, 265 Palestinian children have been killed across Gaza, one child, on average, every single day for more than eight months.Briefing journalists in Geneva, James Elder of UNICEF said the killing of children in Gaza 'is no longer a failure of the system, it has become the system.'
UN Geneva Press Briefing : HRC, WHO, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNFPA, IOM - 19.06.26
🎥 Deadly illusion of the Gaza ceasefire; 🎥 Ebola outbreak in the DRC; 🎥 Twenty years of the Human Rights Council; 🎥 World Refugee Day; 🎥 Announcements.
Happening at UN Geneva
62nd Session of Human Rights Council
The Human Rights Council is an intergovernmental body within the United Nations system made up of 47 States responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe.
It has the ability to discuss all thematic human rights issues and situations that require its attention throughout the year. It meets at the United Nations Office at Geneva.
