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In Dialogue with Guyana, Experts of the Human Rights Committee Commend Measures Promoting Gender Equity, Ask About the Territorial Dispute with Venezuela and Alleged Corruption Regarding Oil Exploitation Permits
20 March 2024
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee today concluded its consideration of the third periodic report of Guyana on how it implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Committee Experts commended…
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UNCTAD Press Conference
20 March 2024
Press Conference Announcement
Presentation of the First Global Supply Chain Forum
Pedro Manuel Moreno, UNCTAD Deputy Secretary general (from Geneva)The. Hon. Kerrie Symmonds, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade - Barbados (from Bridgetown)Matthew Wilson, Ambassador of Barbados to the UN and WTO (From Geneva)
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Gaza: Less than 1 in 2 UN aid missions allowed into northern zones this month
20 March 2024
Less than half of the UN aid convoys planned for Gaza’s hunger-ravaged north have made it so far this month, despite repeated appeals from the international community to ramp up relief to more than one million people on the brink of starvation, UN humanitarians said on Wednesday.
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UN report details ‘climate of fear’ in Russian occupied areas of Ukraine
20 March 2024
Russia has instilled a pervasive atmosphere of fear in the occupied regions of Ukraine, perpetrating egregious violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws in an attempt to cement its control, according to a new report from the UN human rights office, OHCHR, released on Wednesday…
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‘Currently unsafe to return’ to Belarus, Human Rights Council hears
20 March 2024
With the number of political prisoners growing and a shutdown of civic space, people in Belarus are being deprived of their rights to freedom of expression, assembly and more, a new UN human rights report presented on Wednesday has revealed.
Focusing on developments in 2023, the…
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World News in Brief: Dignity and justice key to end evil of racial discrimination, methane emissions update, Mpox latest, peacebuilding boost
20 March 2024
Racism is “an evil infecting countries and societies around the world” the UN chief has said in his message marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination but it impacts communities differently…
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UNRWA review panel presents interim findings to Secretary-General
20 March 2024
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has received the interim findings of an independent panel conducting an assessment of UNRWA, the UN agency that assists Palestinians, his office said on Wednesday in a note to correspondents.
The review follows serious allegations regarding the alleged…
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Accountability essential to counter human rights abuse in DPR Korea
20 March 2024
The UN’s deputy human rights chief on Wednesday underscored the need to ensure accountability for ongoing serious violations in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), stressing that it would also benefit long-term peace and security across the region.
In an oral update to the Human…
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Conflict driving hunger crisis in Sudan, UN officials tell Security Council
20 March 2024
Eleven months of brutal fighting is driving a hunger crisis in Sudan, with some areas likely to experience catastrophic levels of food insecurity by the lean season in May, the UN Security Council heard on Wednesday.
“As we approach the one-year anniversary of the conflict, we…
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First Person: Water key to cultivating financial independence in southern Madagascar
20 March 2024
Women in one of the poorest parts of rural Madagascar are growing their financial independence from men by cultivating village land and selling their produce.
They live in the village of Ankilinanjosoa in Anosy, a region which has suffered a series of droughts leading to the…
