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UN Geneva Press Briefing: WHO, UNFPA, WFP, UNHCR - 14.08.26
🎥WHO: update on Attacks on Health Care 🎥UNFPA: Maternal health challenges in Darfur 🎥WFP/ UNHCR: Critical funding shortfalls threaten life-saving food, nutrition, and other assistance for refugees in South Sudan
Surviving war to fight for peace: Ozonnia Ojielo, UN Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator in Ethiopia
Surviving war to fight for peace: Ozonnia Ojielo survived a civil war and became a top lawyer, but then an encounter with the victims of the conflict in Sierra Leone gave him a new purpose and propelled him to his current role as the United Nations Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator in Ethiopia.
IIMM - Press Briefing: Annual report - 11.08.26
Nicholas Koumjian, Head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM), presented the Mechanism’s eighth annual report
Open the strait, with Arsenio Dominguez | SG of the IMO | Awake at Night
With up to 90 percent of all goods globally transported by sea, the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) works to help commercial shipping and international trade ride the waves of war, piracy and geopolitics. Growing up near the Panama Canal, Arsenio Dominguez was always fascinated by mighty cargo ships sailing through on their way to distant shores. Now Secretary-General of the IMO, his role is to defend seafarers and give shipping the recognition it deserves.
Happening at UN Geneva
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is the body of independent experts which monitors implementation of the Convention by the States parties.
Worldwide, there are an estimated one billion people with disabilities. Through its engagement and cooperation with States parties, the Committee promotes inclusion, advocates for the human rights of all persons with disabilities, and provides recommendations to support the implementation of the provisions enshrined in the Convention.
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by its States parties.
Racial discrimination remains a barrier to the full realization of human rights. Despite progress in some areas, exclusions and restrictions based on race, colour, descent, national or ethnic origin continue to cause conflict, suffering and loss of life. CERD works to take action against the injustice of racial discrimination, and the dangers it represents.
