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Africa: Refugees and displaced face heightened threat from mpox outbreak
27 August 2024
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday that the mpox outbreak could have devastating effects on refugees and displaced families in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and other affected African countries if urgent support is not forthcoming.
According to UNHCR, 42 suspected…
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Afghanistan: Condemnation for new Taliban ‘virtue and vice’ order targeting women
27 August 2024
A new morality law enacted by the Taliban in Afghanistan, cements policies that “completely erase” women’s presence in public, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday, calling for it to be immediately revoked.
The “Law on the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of…
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China: UN rights office reiterates need to review national security framework
27 August 2024
China still has “many problematic laws and policies” regarding the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region two years after the UN human rights office, OHCHR, published a report on serious violations against the Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim communities, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.…
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In Gaza, evacuation orders threaten to uproot UN’s aid hub once again
27 August 2024
The plight of Gaza’s people continues to worsen in the enclave where humanitarian operations are “ongoing where feasible” amid repeated evacuation orders from the Israeli military, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, warned on Tuesday.
In an update, OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke rejected…
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Guterres strongly condemns Burkina Faso terror attack; hundreds killed and injured
27 August 2024
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned the killing of around 200 people in the Burkinabe town of Barsalogho at the weekend, which left a further 140 injured.
According to news reports it was the latest terror attack by the Al Qaeda-linked militant…
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UN upholds safety and efficacy of Gaza polio vaccine
27 August 2024
The United Nations has upheld the safety of the polio vaccine that will be administered to more than half a million Palestinian children during an inoculation campaign in Gaza.
Dire conditions brought on by the war have caused the disease to resurface after more than two decades. Last week,…
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Flooding from Sudan dam collapse worsens humanitarian crisis
27 August 2024
Around 20 villages in eastern Sudan have reportedly been “destroyed”, with 70 impacted overall, after floodwaters burst through a major dam, according to UN humanitarians – adding to the suffering of communities already devastated by the ongoing war between rival militaries.
The Arba’at Dam, located…
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OFFICE OF THE UNSG’S ENVOY FOR TECHNOLOGY Press Conference
27 August 2024
Press Conference Announcement
Global AI Governance Recommendations by the UN SG's High-level Advisory Body
Carme Artigas, Co-Chair of the HLAB on AI and former Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence, of SpainSeydina Moussa Ndiaye, Lecturer at Cheikh Hamidou Kane Digital University in Senegal
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New Permanent Representative of Canada Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
26 August 2024
Presentation of Credentials
Peter MacDougall, the new Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.Prior to his appointment to…
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Committee on the Rights of the Child Opens Ninety-Seventh Session and Signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
26 August 2024
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning opened its ninety-seventh session, which is being held in Geneva from 26 August to 13 September, during which the Committee will review reports on the efforts of…
