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UN Geneva Press Briefing: ILO, UNHCR, IFRC, WHO, OHCHR, UNECE - 5.5.26
🎥 New Report on the Hidden Risks of Digital System Failures; 🎥 New Global Report on Skills and Lifelong Learning; 🎥 Humanitarian Needs Rise as More People are Forced to Flee in Lebanon; 🎥 Hantavirus Cluster Linked to Cruise Ship Travel; 🎥 Civilians Impacted Amid Clashes in Mali; 🎥 Call for Water Cooperation in Central Africa; 🎥 Call for Protection of Humanitarian Personnel on the Anniversary of the Founding of IFRC; 🎥 Announcements.
5 FACTS: UN Mission in South Sudan
With tensions rising in #southsudan, the risk of a return to large-scale conflict is real, with potentially devastating consequences for both the country and the wider region. Nearly 10 million people—four out of five South Sudanese—need humanitarian assistance, as violence, displacement and spillover from the conflict in Sudan continue to strain already vulnerable communities.
LIVE: 2026 World Press Freedom Day - 4.05.26
Media freedom is not a given and its absence frequently leaves communities and vulnerable individuals in danger. To mark World Press Freedom Day, we’ll be hearing from UN agencies, war correspondents and reporters who face major obstacles trying to do their job. The aim is to get a better understanding about what press freedom means in practice and why it is worth defending. 🟥 Live now
#3Minutes | Water: the world's most precious resource
Water is essential to life, but it is under increasing pressure around the world. From scarcity to growing inequalities and rising tensions, it has become a central global challenge. In less than 3 minutes, find out how the United Nations is working to address these challenges and promote cooperation on shared water resources.
Happening at UN Geneva
Global Workshop on the Use of New Technologies and Innovations for Monitoring, Assessment and Data-sharing
In an era of rapid technological advancements and growing water-related challenges, harnessing new technologies and innovative approaches for monitoring, assessment and data-sharing offers unprecedented opportunities in transboundary basins. In this context, "new technologies and innovations" can be understood broadly to include advanced conventional monitoring methods; analytical enablers such as artificial intelligence and machine learning; integrative tools, such as digital twins; and innovative approaches, such as citizen science, that enhance transparency and stakeholder engagement.
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.
Marche des Enfants and the Eduki Ceremony
Around 600 students aged 4 to 19 from across Switzerland will be at the Palais des Nations tomorrow for the awards ceremony of the Eduki National Competition, a nationwide program that encourages young people to explore global issues through creative, media‑based, and action‑oriented projects.
Before the 2 p.m. awards ceremony, students will take part in activities at the Palais des Nations, including a mock press briefing, a Security Service K9 demonstration, and a visit to the Hall 14 exhibition of selected artworks.
This year’s theme, “Interconnected: human – digital – sustainable,” encouraged classes to explore how digital technologies affect society and the environment. Students are coming to the UN to present their projects, exchange ideas, and learn about international cooperation in Geneva.
The competition is held under the patronage of the Director‑General of UN Geneva and organized by Eduki with support from the Swiss Confederation, the Canton and City of Geneva, and Geneva‑based partners.
