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Counting down the days: UN’s 218 international days explained
01 June 2024
This month will see more global observances than there are days in June, commemorating everything from bicycles to oceans. But, how did the UN start marking global dates?
Right now, the UN observes 218 international days (and counting)!The tradition started long before the UN’s inception in 1945…
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Explainer: What’s a dignity kit?
01 June 2024
Every month, nearly two billion women and girls menstruate, but during times of war and climate disasters, from the conflict in Gaza to the devastation caused by Cyclone Remal in Asia, UN humanitarian teams rush to serve affected communities, providing critical aid, which includes dignity kits.
What exactly is a dignity…
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Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Closes Eighty-Eighth Session in Geneva
31 May 2024
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today closed its eighty-eighth session after adopting concluding observations on the reports of Brazil, Estonia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Montenegro, Republic of Korea, Rwanda and Singapore.The concluding observations adopted by the…
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UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING
31 May 2024
UN Geneva Press Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Resident Coordinator Office in Papua New Guinea, the Department of Peace Operations, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the International Organization for Migration, the Food and…
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Director-General's remarks at the Commemoration of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
31 May 2024
Tatiana Valovaya
The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers Friday, 31 May 2024 at 3.00 p.m., UN Memorial, Ariana ParkDelivered on behalf of the Director-General by Ms. Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office at Geneva Excellencies, UN peacekeepers,…
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International Day of Peacekeepers 2024 - Celebration at UNOG
31 May 2024
Ariana Park, Palais des Nations
On the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, officially celebrated on 29 May of each year, we…
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UN humanitarian flight takes vital medical supplies to Haiti
31 May 2024
On Thursday, a humanitarian flight operated by the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) flew from Panama to Haiti – specifically the Port-au-Prince airport – for the first time in three months, according to Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
The international airport…
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UN human rights chief sounds alarm over rising violence in Burkina Faso
31 May 2024
The UN’s top human rights official on Friday voiced serious concern over the dramatic deterioration of the situation in Burkina Faso, where almost 1,800 people are reported to have been unlawfully killed between November last year and April.
Allegations of responsibility point to both armed…
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Situation in southern Gaza ‘horrific and apocalpytic’: WFP
31 May 2024
Aid corridors in southern Gaza must be fully opened to allow the entry of food, fuel and other desperately needed relief items, a senior official with the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
Matthew Hollingsworth, WFP Country Director in Palestine, warned that with limited access to the south “we…
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Global AI summit tackles misinformation and deepfakes with a little ‘bot’ of help
31 May 2024
The thorny issue of how to protect the unwary from deepfakes was just one of the key issues in the spotlight at a UN conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) held in Geneva this week, where a staggering 25,000 enthusiasts – and robots - from 145 countries added their voices to longstanding calls for checks and balances on the all-conquering tech…
