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WIPO Press Conference
30 April 2024
Press Conference Announcement
Launch of World Intellectual Property Report (WIPR) “Making Innovation Policy Work for Development”Marco Aleman, Assistant Director General, IP and Innovation Ecosystems SectorCarsten Fink, Chief Economist
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‘Extraordinary, deep anxiety’ in Gaza over feared Rafah attack
30 April 2024
Ordinary Gazans remain in a “constant state of trauma” over an impending full-scale Israeli attack on the enclave’s southernmost city of Rafah amid a growing number of strikes there, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday.
“There is an extraordinary, deep anxiety…
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Gaza war spillover compounds misery for most vulnerable in Lebanon
30 April 2024
Children as young as four are being forced to go to work in Lebanon amid a “massive collapse” in humanitarian funding and escalating hostilities on the country’s southern border with Israel that threaten to spiral into a “full-scale war”, UN child experts said on Tuesday.
In a call for an…
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Could the answer to 100% renewable energy in Dominica be under the ground?
30 April 2024
A small but growing number of countries are well on their way to producing all of their electricity from renewable sources. Dominica, in the eastern Caribbean, is planning to join these pioneers and become the first small island developing State (SIDS) to stop using fossil fuels for energy generation…
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Guterres calls on Israel and Hamas to end Gaza war
30 April 2024
With the situation in Gaza “worsening by the day”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday appealed for Israeli and Hamas leaders currently taking part in intense negotiations to reach a ceasefire agreement.
“For the sake of the people of Gaza, for the sake of the hostages and their families in Israel…
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Gaza protests: UN rights chief flags ‘disproportionate’ police action on US campuses
30 April 2024
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Tuesday said he was troubled by “a series of heavy-handed steps” taken by some universities in the United States to disperse and dismantle Gaza war protests.
In recent days, demonstrations unfolding through tented encampments on…
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Security Council hears of progress in Bosnia despite ‘worrying’ trend of genocide denial
30 April 2024
Both positive and “worrying” developments have recently unfolded in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a top UN official told the Security Council on Tuesday at an emergency meeting requested by Russia.
Miroslav Jenča, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the…
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World News in Brief: DR Congo conflict could spell catastrophe, plastics treaty progress, enforced disappearances rise ahead of Venezuela poll
30 April 2024
The world’s leading humanitarian action forum on Tuesday said that crushing levels of violence and displacement are fuelling unprecedented civilian suffering in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC…
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UNRWA Press Conference
30 April 2024
Press Conference Announcement
Update on the situation in the oPt
Philippe Lazzarini, Commissaire général, UNRWA
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Gaza at ‘most dangerous’ stage amid huge unexploded weapons risk, warns demining expert
29 April 2024
The head of UN peacekeeping and demining reiterated calls on Monday for a ceasefire in Gaza as a first step to returning the war-ravaged enclave to some normality, while mine clearance experts warned that the Strip is now at its “most dangerous period”.
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