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Human Rights Committee Adopts Report on Views Concerning Individual Communications on Colombia, Ecuador, Finland, Greece, New Zealand, Sweden, Türkiye, Turkmenistan and Ukraine

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Human Rights Committee Adopts Report on Views Concerning Individual Communications on Colombia, Ecuador, Finland, Greece, New Zealand, Sweden, Türkiye, Turkmenistan and Ukraine 04 November 2024 Meeting Summaries The Human Rights Committee today adopted a follow-up progress report on individual communications, presented by the Special Rapporteur for follow-up on Views, which concerned communications on Colombia, Ecuador,…

UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Press Conference

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Press Conference 04 November 2024 Press Conference Announcement Presentation of the Least Developed Countries Report 2024: Leveraging Carbon Markets for Development Embargo until 4 November at 5:30 p.m. Geneva Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary General of UN Trade and DevelopmentRolf Traeger, UN Trade and Development, Chief, LDC Section Policy Analysis and Research Branch…

Middle East crisis: Gaza polio vaccine campaign under fire

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Middle East crisis: Gaza polio vaccine campaign under fire 03 November 2024 © UNRWA A UN-supported campaign plans to deliver the required two vaccine doses to ensure Gaza's 640,000 children are immune to the paralysing virus. Attacks on a clinic and UN staff member were reported during a resumed polio vaccine campaign in besieged northern Gaza, Israeli forces continued airstrikes on…

COP16: Landmark biodiversity agreements adopted

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home COP16: Landmark biodiversity agreements adopted 03 November 2024 UN Biodiversity COP16 reached the first ever agreement recognising people of African descent and Indigenous Peoples as key drivers in conserving nature. The world’s largest biodiversity summit, known as COP16, concluded this weekend in Colombia, with several landmark decisions, including first ever agreements on nature’s…

85 per cent of journalist killings go unpunished

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home 85 per cent of journalist killings go unpunished 02 November 2024 ©UNESCO/ Enos Teche Journalists covering a terrorist attack in Kenya. Between 2006 and 2024, over 1,700 journalists have been killed around the world, and around 85 percent of the cases did not make it to court, according to a report by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).…

Gaza: Strike hits health centre as polio vaccine campaign resumes in ravaged north

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Strike hits health centre as polio vaccine campaign resumes in ravaged north 02 November 2024 © UNRWA/Ashraf Amra A health worker administers the polio vaccine to a Palestinian child in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza. (file) The long-awaited final phase of a UN-supported polio vaccine campaign began on Saturday in bombarded, besieged northern Gaza even as reports emerged that one…

Lebanon: UN agencies call for ceasefire as war worsens dire conditions

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Lebanon: UN agencies call for ceasefire as war worsens dire conditions 02 November 2024 © UNICEF/Fouad Choufany طفل يبلغ من العمر عامين من صور يتعافى من حروق بالغة أصيب بها إثر غارة جوية إسرائيلية. The humanitarian situation in Lebanon has surpassed the devastation wrought by the war with Israel in 2006, UN agencies said on Saturday, publishing the latest updates from the ground amid calls…

World Urban Forum: The search for solutions to the global housing crisis moves to Cairo

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home World Urban Forum: The search for solutions to the global housing crisis moves to Cairo 02 November 2024 Unsplash/Sherif Moharram Cairo, the capital of Egypt. As the world’s population moves inexorably and rapidly to ever larger cities, how can we make sure that urban environments are sustainable and safe for their citizens? These questions and more will be tackled at the 12th gathering of…

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 01 November 2024 UN Geneva Press Briefing Rolando Gómez, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the World Food Programme, the World Meteorological Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and the World Health Organization. Rising hunger in South Sudan…

‘Historic development’ in Thailand as it moves to end statelessness for nearly 500,000 people

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Historic development’ in Thailand as it moves to end statelessness for nearly 500,000 people 01 November 2024 © UNHCR/Apipar Norapoompipat UNHCR caseworkers are helping stateless residents in the Chiang Mai region of Thailand with their citizenship applications. In a landmark move towards ending statelessness, Thailand’s cabinet has approved an accelerated pathway to permanent residency and…