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WMO/WHO press conference
02 November 2023
Press Conference Announcement
State of Climate Services for Health report
Prof Petteri Taalas, WMO Secretary-General
Dr Maria Neira, Director Department, of Environment, Climate Change and Health, WHO
Dr Joy Shumake-Guillemot, joint WMO-WHO Office on Climate and Health
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New UNOG-SIG Charter a Vision of a More Sustainable Future
01 November 2023
Press Release
GENEVA (30 October 2023) – In a significant move towards energy conservation, the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) will sign the “Ambition Negawatt Vision” Charter with water, gas, and electricity company Services Industriels de Genève (SIG) to pledge its commitment to saving energy.
UNOG Director-General Tatiana Valovaya and SIG Director General…
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Experts of the Committee against Torture Commend Burundi on Efforts to Repatriate Burundian Refugees, Ask about Acts of Torture Committed by the Burundian Police Force and Security Forces and about the Role of the Imbonerakure
01 November 2023
Meeting Summaries
The Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its consideration of the third periodic…
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Rise in intimidation, settler violence in the West Bank, warns OCHA
01 November 2023
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Palestinian families accuse settlers of forcing them out their homes in the West Bank including in east Nablus (pictured).
More than 820 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been displaced amid settler violence and increased movement restrictions since the Hamas terror attacks of 7 October and…
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World News in Brief: Mali mission latest, starvation alert for ‘hotspots’, inclusive sport for all
01 November 2023
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UN peacekeepers from Chad arrive in Gao bringing an end to the UN's presence in the Kidal region of northern Mali.
Eight 'blue helmets' were seriously injured during the departure of the last contingent of peacekeepers from the restive Kidal region of Mali, the UN…
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Human Rights Committee Adopts Report on Follow-Up to Concluding Observations on Belgium, Czechia, Mauritania and Nigeria
01 November 2023
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee this morning adopted a report on follow-up to concluding observations on Belgium, Czechia, Mauritania and Nigeria.
Imeru Tamerat Yigezu, Committee Expert and Special Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations, presented the assessment of the responses provided by Belgium,…
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World Stroke Day at UN Geneva (FR)
01 November 2023
Elise & Louis, deux jeunes survivants d’un AVC témoignent au micro d’…
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PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE
31 October 2023
UN Geneva Press Briefing
Rolando Gómez, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives from the World Health Organization, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children's Fund, the United Nations…
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New Permanent Representative of Madagascar Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
31 October 2023
Presentation of Credentials
Djacoba Andry Solofonirina Oliva Tehindrazanarivelo, the new Permanent Representative of Madagascar to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva…
