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Palestine: Rights experts call for stronger torture prevention measures
25 September 2023
UN News
The Palestinian Flag in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Palestinian authorities must strengthen fundamental legal safeguards against torture and ill-treatment, especially from the first moments of detention, a group of UN human rights experts said on Monday.…
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Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Opens Seventy-Fourth Session
25 September 2023
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today opened its seventy-fourth session, hearing opening remarks from Wan-Hea Lee, Chief, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Representative of the…
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HRC - Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine
25 September 2023
Press Conference Announcement
The Commissioners oral update to HRC 25 September 2023
Erik Møse, Chair of the Commission
Pablo de Greiff, Commissioner
Vrinda Grover, Commissioner
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‘It’s crunch time’ to reach the SDGs, Mohammed tells Global Citizen Festival
24 September 2023
UN News/Nathan Beriro
The Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed addresses the audience at the Global Citizen Festival in New York's Central Park.
Despite pouring rain, around 60,000 advocates, artists, influencers and concerned citizens were in New York’s iconic Central Park on Saturday…
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Russian Foreign Minister hits out at West’s ‘empire of lies’
23 September 2023
UN Photo/Cia Pak
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of the Russian Federation addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s 78th session.
Russia’s Foreign Minister told the UN General Assembly on Saturday that a new world order is being born through a struggle between a neocolonial minority and a “global…
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At UN, Horn of Africa nations urge global solidarity and real reform
23 September 2023
UN Photo/Fardosa Hussein
An aerial photograph of the dried up Juba river in Somalia. Prolonged droughts due to worsening climate change impacts affect millions of people in the Horn of Africa region.
As UN General Assembly’s general debate continued Saturday, Horn of Africa nations made a strong plea for…