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HRC Press Conference

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home HRC Press Conference 28 February 2024 Press Conference Announcement Launch of the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua’s latest report on the human rights situation in Nicaragua. Jan-Michael Simon, Chair of the Group of ExpertsÁngela Maria Buitrago, Member of the Group of ExpertsAriela Peralta Distefano, Member of the Group of Experts

All parties to Gaza crisis may have committed war crimes: UN rights chief

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home All parties to Gaza crisis may have committed war crimes: UN rights chief 28 February 2024 UN News The Al-Shaboura neighborhood in Rafah, lies in ruins. All parties to the Gaza conflict have been responsible for “clear violations of international humanitarian law including possible war crimes”, according to the UN’s top human rights official, Volker Türk…

Afghanistan: UN appalled at revival of public floggings, executions

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Afghanistan: UN appalled at revival of public floggings, executions 28 February 2024 © Unsplash/Mohammad Husaini Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. A revival of Taliban-ordered public executions by gunfire taking place in sports stadiums in several cities in Afghanistan “must cease immediately”, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Wednesday…

Wheat from war-torn Ukraine to feed families affected by conflict in Sudan

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Wheat from war-torn Ukraine to feed families affected by conflict in Sudan 28 February 2024 © WFP/Abubaker Garelnabei Emergency food aid from Ukraine arrives in war-torn Sudan. More than 7,000 tonnes of wheat donated by war-ravaged Ukraine will help to feed one million conflict-affected people in Sudan for a month, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday.…

World News in Brief: Air travel boom erases COVID dip, ‘disturbing’ new anti-LGBT bill in Ghana, rights abuses in Crimea

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Air travel boom erases COVID dip, ‘disturbing’ new anti-LGBT bill in Ghana, rights abuses in Crimea 28 February 2024 © Unsplash/John Oswald Madrid airport, Spain. The UN aviation agency on Wednesday announced that air traffic levels are operating at around two per cent above their high in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic grounded much of the world’s population in…

No medicine, no hope: Doctors describe life under Israeli attack in Gaza

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home No medicine, no hope: Doctors describe life under Israeli attack in Gaza 28 February 2024 UN News Part of the destruction that affected Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis. No communications, no medicine and little hope. That’s what operating a hospital in a war zone has become in Gaza, according to a team of doctors trapped for weeks inside the besieged Al Amal Hospital in Khan Younis…

Humanitarians launch $674 million appeal urging ‘increased solidarity’ with Haiti

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Humanitarians launch $674 million appeal urging ‘increased solidarity’ with Haiti 28 February 2024 © UNICEF/Herold Joseph Children are taken by their mothers for nutrition screening in the Delams neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince. Humanitarians are hoping that donors will robustly support a $674 million appeal for Haiti, where armed gangs continue to terrorize the population, a senior UN…

Stories from the UN Archive: Leap year events from UN history

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Stories from the UN Archive: Leap year events from UN history 28 February 2024 UN Photo/Evan Schneider UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (centre) briefing correspondents at UN Headquarters in 2004. (file) It’s leap year, which gives February a 29th day only once every four years. This #ThrowbackThursday, we’re looking at what has happened on 29 February in UN history…

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 27 February 2024 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons of the World Health Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the International Telecommunication Union, the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, and the Human Rights Council.  Situation in Gaza…

Experts of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances Commend Honduras’ Migration Reception Centres, Ask about Disappearances of Migrants and Illegal Intercountry Adoptions

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Experts of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances Commend Honduras’ Migration Reception Centres, Ask about Disappearances of Migrants and Illegal Intercountry Adoptions 27 February 2024 Meeting Summaries The Committee on Enforced Disappearances today concluded its consideration of Honduras’s initial report on additional information under article 29 (4) of the International Convention on…