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Jenin: UN concerned over ongoing Israeli military operation
04 July 2023
UN News/Shirin Yaseen
The Separation wall in the West Bank.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed deep concern about the developments in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli airstrikes have hit the densely populated refugee camp there.…
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Cooperation key to weathering climate crisis, growing inequality, new tech challenge: Guterres
04 July 2023
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres. (file)
Divisions are growing and geopolitical tensions rising, as humanity faces three major challenges where the world has the power to “seek and unite for solutions” said the UN chief on Tuesday…
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WMO hybrid press conference
04 July 2023
Press Conference Announcement
El Niño Update
Under embargo until 4 July 2023, 10 a.m. CEST
Wilfran Moufouma Okia, Head of Regional Climate Prediction Services - WMO
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AFTERNOON - Human Rights Council Hears that Digital, Media and Information Literacy Programmes Should be Considered an Integral Part of Education Efforts Given their Importance for the Exercise of Rights in the Digital Age
03 July 2023
Meeting Summaries
Council Also Hears that the Adverse Effects of Climate Change, including on the Right to Food, Threaten the Full and Effective Enjoyment of All Human…
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Human Rights Committee Reviews the Human Rights Situation in Burundi in the Absence of a Delegation
03 July 2023
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Experts Commend Action on Trafficking in Persons, Express Concern about Reports of Sexual Violence by the Ruling Party’s Youth League and Persecution of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Persons
The Human Rights Committee today…
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MORNING - High Commissioner for Human Rights: the Environment is Dying and the Right to Food is Comprehensively Threatened by Climate Change - the World Demands Action Now
03 July 2023
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Council Discusses the Impact of Casualty Recording on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Hearing that Casualty Reporting is Important for Pursuing Accountability
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IAEA: Europe’s largest nuclear power plant regains back-up electricity feed
03 July 2023
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The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine is now reconnected to its only back-up power line after four months, but the power situation at the site remains “highly vulnerable”, warned Rafael Mariano Grossi, head of the International…
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From the Field: Finding a sanctuary for animals in Ukraine
03 July 2023
UNICEF
Participants of the UN-supported UPSHIFT programme have united to help animals in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine.
Animals left behind by their owners followingRussia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 have been found a new sanctuary, thanks in part to the support of the UN…