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World News in Brief: UN responds to Bangladesh floods, sports and human rights, polio vaccination in Angola

9 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: UN responds to Bangladesh floods, sports and human rights, polio vaccination in Angola 01 July 2024 © WFP/Nihab Rahman Heavy monsoon rains have caused severe floods in northeastern Bangladesh. The UN emergency food relief agency is providing vital assistance to communities affected by the severe flooding in northeast Bangladesh, the agency said on Monday…

Human Rights Committee Opens One Hundred and Forty-First Session in Geneva

9 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Human Rights Committee Opens One Hundred and Forty-First Session in Geneva 01 July 2024 Meeting Summaries The Human Rights Committee today opened its one hundred and forty-first session, during which it will examine the reports of Croatia, Honduras, India, Maldives, Malta, Suriname and Syria on their implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.In opening remarks, Mahamane Cisse-Gouro, Director, Human Rights Council and Treaty…

‘Trust and respect’ feeds interfaith rice growing success in the Philippines

9 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Trust and respect’ feeds interfaith rice growing success in the Philippines 30 June 2024 UN News/Daniel Dickinson Farmers work in the paddy fields in Liton. Trust built on decades of respect for religion has fertilized the seeds of success for two communities, one Muslim the other Christian, which have joined together to build a successful rice growing cooperative in the Philippines…

Haiti: Longing to live again, amid trauma of displacement

9 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Haiti: Longing to live again, amid trauma of displacement 29 June 2024 © UNOCHA/Giles Clarke Barricades preventing the flow of traffic are regularly erected in Port-au-Prince Two women from the troubled Carrefour-Feuilles neighborhood in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince have shared their traumatic experiences of rape, contracting HIV, and despairing thoughts of suicide, after multiple forced…

UN chief lauds ‘strong’ new recommendations to limit proliferation of light weapons

9 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN chief lauds ‘strong’ new recommendations to limit proliferation of light weapons 29 June 2024 UNDP/SEESAC Small arms and light weapons are collected and sorted for destruction at a facility in Serbia in 2017. The UN Secretary-General on Saturday praised the adoption of a “strong outcome document” at the end of a conference dedicated to combatting illicit small arms and light weapons…

AFTERNOON - Special Rapporteur Tells Human Rights Council How Governments Have Implemented Restrictive Laws and Intense Stigmatising Campaigns to Silence Civic Activism

9 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home AFTERNOON - Special Rapporteur Tells Human Rights Council How Governments Have Implemented Restrictive Laws and Intense Stigmatising Campaigns to Silence Civic Activism 28 June 2024 Meeting Summaries Over 10 Per Cent of Women Globally Are Trapped in a Cycle of Extreme Poverty, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Tells the Council …

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

9 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 28 June 2024 UN Geneva Press Briefing Daniel Johnson, Public Information Officer, United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives from the United Nations Human Rights Council, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the World Health Organization, United Nations Trade and Development…

MORNING - At the Human Rights Council, Volker Türk Calls on States to Overhaul Discriminatory Laws and Practices Enabling Economic Violence against Women

9 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home MORNING - At the Human Rights Council, Volker Türk Calls on States to Overhaul Discriminatory Laws and Practices Enabling Economic Violence against Women 28 June 2024 Meeting Summaries Council Concludes Interactive Dialogue with Working Group on Discrimination against Women and GirlsThe Human Rights Council this…

Going back into ‘hell’: An aid worker’s journey through shattered Gaza

9 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Going back into ‘hell’: An aid worker’s journey through shattered Gaza 28 June 2024 © UNICEF/Eyad El Baba People search for water in Khan Younis city in the southern the Gaza Strip. (file) Over and above the difficulty of actually getting into Gaza, aid teams now face the crushing realization that with a shortage of fuel and dwindling supplies, there is a limit to what they can do to help…

Haitian capital’s crippled health system ‘on the brink’

9 months 4 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Haitian capital’s crippled health system ‘on the brink’ 28 June 2024 © UNICEF/Ralph Tedy Erol People flee the neighbourhood of Solino in Port-au-Prince following gang attacks there in May 2024. The health system in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince is “on the brink” and “crippled by escalating violence” according to the UN Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) representative in the…