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New Permanent Representative of Denmark Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
06 November 2023
Presentation of Credentials
Ib Petersen, the new Permanent Representative of Denmark 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 Geneva, Mr.…
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WFP appeals for urgent expanded Gaza access with food supplies ‘dangerously low’
05 November 2023
The head of the UN’s emergency food relief agency on Sunday issued an urgent appeal from the Rafah border crossing for safe, expanded humanitarian access to Gaza as critical food supplies in the ravaged enclave reach dangerously low levels.
“Right now, parents in Gaza do not…
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Opium cultivation declines by 95 per cent in Afghanistan: UN survey
05 November 2023
Opium poppy production in Afghanistan has plummeted since the de facto authorities imposed a drug ban last year, new UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data reveals.
According to the Afghanistan Opium Survey 2023, released by the agency on Sunday, the supply of opium declined by an…
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Guterres ‘horrified’ by strike on ambulance convoy in Gaza
04 November 2023
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he was “horrified” by a strike on an ambulance convoy outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip on Friday, reiterating his appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire.
According to reports, at Al Shifa Hospital, the ambulances were evacuating critically injured and sick…
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UN teams respond to deadly earthquake in western Nepal
04 November 2023
United Nations teams in Nepal are responding to the devastating earthquake in the west of the country, amid reports that over 150 people have been killed and hundreds more injured.
The powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck the remote and rural districts of Rukum (West) and Jajarkot shortly before…
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PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE
03 November 2023
UN Geneva Press Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Policy, representative and spokespersons of the World Health Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United…
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OHCHR press conference
03 November 2023
Press Conference Announcement
UN Human Rights Committee to present findings on Iran, Kuwait, Republic of Korea, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States of America and Venezuela
Mr. José Manuel Santos Pais, Vice Chair
Mr. Carlos Gómez Martínez, Committee member
Ms. Hélène Tigroudja, Committee member
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Israel-Palestine crisis: ‘It’s the innocent civilians who are losing’
03 November 2023
More funding is urgently needed for lifesaving aid in Gaza while concern is deepening over high numbers of civilians killed since the beginning of the crisis and human rights violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Briefing reporters in Geneva on Friday UN health agency…
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Sudan: Women and girls abducted, held ‘in slave-like conditions’ in Darfur
03 November 2023
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) expressed alarm on Friday over reports that in Sudan, women and girls are being abducted, chained and held in “inhuman, degrading slave-like conditions” in areas controlled by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Darfur.
The stark report comes against…
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Humanitarian ceasefires critical to meet immense needs in Gaza
03 November 2023
Political negotiations to get aid into Gaza have yielded results but much more is needed, including humanitarian ceasefires to ensure safe delivery of food, fuel and other essentials, senior UN officials said on Friday in a briefing to Member States in New York.
Their humanitarian update…
