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UN investigators warn of widespread abuses in Myanmar conflict
09 September 2024
Warfare in Myanmar has escalated into systematic atrocities, including attacks targeting civilians, torture and sexual violence, the UN independent rights probe into the country said on Monday.
Addressing the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, Nicholas Koumjian, the head of the Independent…
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UNIDIR Press Conference
09 September 2024
Press Conference Announcement
Launch of the Cluster Munitions Monitor 2024 report
Mary Wareham, Landmine Monitor 2024 Ban Policy Editor Katrin Atkins, Landmine Monitor 2024 Impact Team Senior Researcher Loren Persi, Landmine Monitor 2024 Impact Team Lead (Zoom)Charles Bechara, ICBL-CMC Communications and Media Manager
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Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Opens Seventy-Sixth Session
09 September 2024
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today opened its seventy-sixth session and adopted its agenda and programme of work for the session, during which it is scheduled to review the reports of Albania, Cyprus, Honduras, Iceland, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi and Poland.Opening the session,…
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The world must ‘wake up and help Sudan out of the nightmare of conflict’, says WHO’s Tedros
08 September 2024
Sudan’s health system is “near collapse” after 16 months of war have left the country and its people facing what the UN’s top health official described on Sunday as the “perfect storm of crises”, which the world is largely ignoring.
“The scale of the emergency is…
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Investing in clean air can saves lives and combat climate change
07 September 2024
The UN Secretary-General is marking ‘Clean Air Day’ with a call for global investment in solutions that tackle climate change and the increasing public health, environmental, and economic harm caused by air pollution.
This year’s International Day for Clean air and Blue Skies, celebrated…
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UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING
06 September 2024
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 press briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives from the Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Telecommunication Union, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the International…
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Climate change: ‘Graveyard of glaciers’ lays bare existential threat of melting ice
06 September 2024
Iceland´s glaciers are retreating so rapidly that future generations may wonder how the ancient island nation got its name. No surprise then that the land of the Vikings was chosen to house the world’s first global glacier graveyard which was unveiled at a ceremony last month, close to the capital Reykjavik…
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Sudan war: Rights probe demands wider arms embargo to end ‘rampant’ abuse
06 September 2024
Top human rights investigators into Sudan’s brutal war called on Friday for a country-wide arms embargo as they recounted harrowing testimony of victims of horrific sexual attacks whose bodies are treated as a “theatre of operation” by fighters acting with total impunity.
“Since mid-…
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UNICEF renews school protection call in Ukraine amid ‘deadly reality’ of attacks
06 September 2024
Continued Russian attacks across Ukraine this week made for a tragic start to the new school year, a senior official with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a statement on Friday.
John Marks, interim UNICEF Representative in Ukraine, issued a renewed appeal for…
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Gaza: 160,000 more children vaccinated against polio in southern Gaza
06 September 2024
More than 160,000 children were vaccinated in southern Gaza on Thursday, the first day of a polio vaccination campaign there, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said on Friday.
UN agencies and partners in the Strip will continue to vaccinate “as many Gazan children as…
