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UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 20 February 2024 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Development Programme, and the International Committee of the Red Cross.Third year of Ukraine warAlessandra Vellucci, for the United…

Experts of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances Commend Cambodia’s International Cooperation on Fighting Crime, Ask about Plans to Adopt Legislation on Enforced Disappearance and Measures to Prevent Corruption in the Judiciary

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Experts of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances Commend Cambodia’s International Cooperation on Fighting Crime, Ask about Plans to Adopt Legislation on Enforced Disappearance and Measures to Prevent Corruption in the Judiciary 20 February 2024 Meeting Summaries The Committee on Enforced Disappearances today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Cambodia on its implementation of the International…

Gazans ‘hanging by a thread’, warns WFP

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Gazans ‘hanging by a thread’, warns WFP 20 February 2024 © UNICEF/Eyad El Baba تظهر على العديد من الأطفال في غزة علامات سوء التغذية الحاد وفقدان الوزن بشكل كبير. The UN emergency food relief agency (WFP) warned that Gaza is “hanging by a thread”, calling for urgent access to allow it to reach the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians on the verge of famine…

UN agencies sound alarm over renewed clashes in eastern DR Congo

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN agencies sound alarm over renewed clashes in eastern DR Congo 20 February 2024 © UNICEF/Jospin Benekire Un jeune garçon est assis dans un site de personnes déplacées à Goma, province du Nord-Kivu, en RDC (photo d'archives). Amid reports of a renewed escalation of hostilities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN peacekeeping mission in the country has called on…

UN allocates $100 million for underfunded emergencies

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN allocates $100 million for underfunded emergencies 20 February 2024 © UNICEF/Frank Dejongh Children and women collect water in a village in Niger. (file) The UN’s top relief official on Tuesday released $100 million from the Organization’s core humanitarian emergency fund to support underfunded aid operations in seven countries in Africa, the Middle East and the Americas…

World News in Brief: Papua New Guinea violence, Ukraine’s displaced, $2.6 billion DR Congo appeal

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Papua New Guinea violence, Ukraine’s displaced, $2.6 billion DR Congo appeal 20 February 2024 © Unsplash/Vika Chartier Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. The Government of Papua New Guinea must effectively address escalating tribal violence, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.…

Climate-affected Madagascar adapts to new reality: A UN Resident Coordinator blog

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Climate-affected Madagascar adapts to new reality: A UN Resident Coordinator blog 20 February 2024 UN News/Daniel Dickinson Communities in southern Madagascar are planting sisal to protect the land from erosion and degradation. People living in Madagascar are learning to adapt to rapidly altering climatic conditions in what is said to be the fourth most climate change affected country…

DR Congo: Fighting threatens stability of entire region, envoy warns

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home DR Congo: Fighting threatens stability of entire region, envoy warns 20 February 2024 UN Photo/Loey Felipe Bintou Keita (on screen), Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation concerning the country. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (…

US vetoes Algerian resolution demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home US vetoes Algerian resolution demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza 20 February 2024 UN Photo/Manuel Elías Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield of the United States votes against the draft resolution in the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. The UN Security Council met again in emergency session in New York on Gaza Tuesday,…

Note to correspondents on coverage of the fifty-fifth session of the Human Rights Council

1 year 2 months ago Breadcrumb Home Note to correspondents on coverage of the fifty-fifth session of the Human Rights Council 19 February 2024 Press Release  FIFTY-FIFTH SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Geneva, Switzerland, 26 February-5 April 2024 The fifty-fifth session of the Human Rights Council will begin on Monday 26 February 2024 at the United Nations’ Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Journalists who have received media…