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Conference on Disarmament to Hold First Public Plenary of its 2024 Session on Tuesday, 23 January
18 January 2024
Press Release
The Conference on Disarmament, the world's single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum, will hold the first public plenary of its 2024 session on Tuesday, 23 January. The meeting will start at 10 a.m. under the Presidency of India. Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of…
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World News in Brief: Rights chief calls for calm in Comoros, DR Congo update, northern Ethiopia beset by ‘multiple crises’
17 January 2024
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has appealed for restraint in the wake of protests and heightened tensions following Sunday’s presidential elections in the Comoros.
Incumbent President of the island archipelago off…
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Gaza health system collapsing, as UN agencies renew ceasefire call
17 January 2024
The World Health Organization (WHO) is continuing to do all it can to deliver critical medicines, supplies and fuel to Gaza hospitals, where the health system is collapsing, an agency official said on Wednesday.
Sean Casey, WHO Health Emergency Officer, was speaking fresh from a more…
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Gaza crisis: Back two-State solution urges UN chief, ‘once and for all’
17 January 2024
Unremitting conflict in Gaza has already sparked regional insecurity and is clear evidence that the international community needs to throw its weight behind a two-State solution in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to resolve the enduring crisis “once and for all”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday…
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UN agency urges ‘all possible support’ for Sudanese civilians
17 January 2024
The head of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Wednesday appealed for the international community to provide an urgent boost in funding and commitment to address Sudan’s escalating humanitarian crisis, now entering its tenth month.
A staggering six million people have been…
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UN coordinator for Gaza visits Egypt to ‘expedite all areas’ of aid
17 January 2024
The UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza visited Al-Arish, Egypt, on Wednesday in efforts to scale-up assistance to the enclave, where more than 100 days of war between Israel and Hamas militants have left most of the population in dire need of food, water, medicines and other basic items.…
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PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE
16 January 2024
UN Geneva Press Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, a representative of the World Health Organization and a spokesperson of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. New Secretary-General of the World…
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Committee on the Rights of the Child Concludes its Consideration of the Report of the Republic of the Congo
16 January 2024
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined fifth and sixth periodic report of the Republic of the Congo.Irène Marie Cécile Mboukou Kimbatsa, Minister of Social Affairs, Solidarity and Humanitarian Action of the Republic of the…
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Tobacco use declining despite industry interference: WHO
16 January 2024
The number of people using tobacco continues to decline despite industry attempts to jeopardize progress towards stamping out cigarettes and other such products, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report published on Tuesday.
Trends in 2022 showed that roughly one in five adults…
