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Middle East crisis: Live updates on 30 October from the UN and the region

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Middle East crisis: Live updates on 30 October from the UN and the region 30 October 2024 © UNRWA Bread is handed out to people in Deir Al-Balah in the central part of the Gaza Strip. Live updates through the day featured the latest breaking news from UN Headquarters and the field, with human rights experts and top UN officials addressing the crisis roiling across the Middle East as conflict…

War in Ukraine: Live updates from the Security Council and the field

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home War in Ukraine: Live updates from the Security Council and the field 30 October 2024 © UNOCHA/Dmytro Filipskyy A clear-up operation is underway following an overnight strike in Kharkiv City, Ukraine. The UN Security Council met in emergency session on Ukraine on Wednesday amid unconfirmed reports that troops from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) – more commonly known as North…

People want action on plastic pollution that’s choking us: Guterres

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home People want action on plastic pollution that’s choking us: Guterres 30 October 2024 UN News/Brianna Rowe Plastic waste collects in a river in Trinidad. Countries gathered in Colombia to work on a treaty to end plastic pollution must strive for “an ambitious, credible and just” deal that responds to the needs of communities everywhere, including some 20 million waste-pickers, UN Secretary-…

UN rights chief urges Bangladesh to sustain ‘unprecedented’ momentum for change

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN rights chief urges Bangladesh to sustain ‘unprecedented’ momentum for change 30 October 2024 © UNOHCHR/Anthony Headley High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk meets Bangladeshi students and looks at some of the grafitti that emerged during protests near Dhaka University during demonstrations in July. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday emphasized the importance…

Stories from the UN Archive: What UNRWA built

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Stories from the UN Archive: What UNRWA built 30 October 2024 UN Photo/JG People in the Gaza Strip collect relief supplies delivered by boat in 1957. Education, health care, humanitarian and social services, camps for displaced people, including in times of armed conflict. These are just some of the services that the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has been…

General Assembly renews long-standing call for end to US embargo against Cuba

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home General Assembly renews long-standing call for end to US embargo against Cuba 30 October 2024 UN Photo/Evan Schneider UN General Assembly votes on the draft resolution on the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba. The UN General Assembly on Wednesday once again urged the United States to end its economic, commercial, and…

UN envoy urges responsible leadership amid Kosovo-Serbia tensions

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN envoy urges responsible leadership amid Kosovo-Serbia tensions 30 October 2024 UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Caroline Ziadeh, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, briefs members of the Security Council. As tensions mount between Pristina and Belgrade, the UN’s top official in Kosovo called for “responsible leadership”…

Experts of the Human Rights Committee Commend Ecuador’s National Councils for Equality, Ask about State of Emergency Restrictions and Military Management of Prisons

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Experts of the Human Rights Committee Commend Ecuador’s National Councils for Equality, Ask about State of Emergency Restrictions and Military Management of Prisons 29 October 2024 Meeting Summaries The Human Rights Committee today concluded its consideration of the seventh periodic report of Ecuador on how it implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, with Committee Experts…

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 29 October 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 Director-General of the International Organization for Migration, and the representatives and spokespersons of the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs…

Russia: Torture now ‘a tool for repression at home and aggression abroad’

5 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Russia: Torture now ‘a tool for repression at home and aggression abroad’ 29 October 2024 UN News Mariana Katzarova began work as the first UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation on 1 May 2023, following her appointment by the Human Rights Council. In a new report launched on Tuesday the UN independent expert on human rights in Russia exposes…