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​​​​​​​ Experts of the Committee against Torture Commend Burundi on Efforts to Repatriate Burundian Refugees, Ask about Acts of Torture Committed by the Burundian Police Force and Security Forces and about the Role of the Imbonerakure

1 year 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home ​​​​​​​ Experts of the Committee against Torture Commend Burundi on Efforts to Repatriate Burundian Refugees, Ask about Acts of Torture Committed by the Burundian Police Force and Security Forces and about the Role of the Imbonerakure 01 November 2023 Meeting Summaries The Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its consideration of the third periodic…

Israel-Palestine crisis: First evacuations from Gaza; outrage grows over refugee camp strikes

1 year 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home Israel-Palestine crisis: First evacuations from Gaza; outrage grows over refugee camp strikes 01 November 2023 © WHO A patient is treated at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the south of Gaza. UN health agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed Egypt’s decision on Wednesday to accept dozens of the most critically sick and injured from the stricken Gaza Strip for treatment.…

Rise in intimidation, settler violence in the West Bank, warns OCHA

1 year 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home Rise in intimidation, settler violence in the West Bank, warns OCHA 01 November 2023 OCHA Palestinian families accuse settlers of forcing them out their homes in the West Bank including in east Nablus (pictured). More than 820 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been displaced amid settler violence and increased movement restrictions since the Hamas terror attacks of 7 October and…

World News in Brief: Mali mission latest, starvation alert for ‘hotspots’, inclusive sport for all

1 year 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Mali mission latest, starvation alert for ‘hotspots’, inclusive sport for all 01 November 2023 MINUSMA UN peacekeepers from Chad arrive in Gao bringing an end to the UN's presence in the Kidal region of northern Mali. Eight 'blue helmets' were seriously injured during the departure of the last contingent of peacekeepers from the restive Kidal region of Mali, the UN…

Human Rights Committee Adopts Report on Follow-Up to Concluding Observations on Belgium, Czechia, Mauritania and Nigeria

1 year 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home Human Rights Committee Adopts Report on Follow-Up to Concluding Observations on Belgium, Czechia, Mauritania and Nigeria 01 November 2023 Meeting Summaries The Human Rights Committee this morning adopted a report on follow-up to concluding observations on Belgium, Czechia, Mauritania and Nigeria. Imeru Tamerat Yigezu, Committee Expert and Special Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations, presented the assessment of the responses provided by Belgium,…

World Stroke Day at UN Geneva (FR)

1 year 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home World Stroke Day at UN Geneva (FR) 01 November 2023 Elise & Louis, deux jeunes survivants d’un AVC témoignent au micro d’…

PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE

1 year 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE 31 October 2023 UN Geneva Press Briefing Rolando Gómez, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives from the World Health Organization, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children's Fund, the United Nations…

New Permanent Representative of Madagascar Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

1 year 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home New Permanent Representative of Madagascar Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva 31 October 2023 Presentation of Credentials Djacoba Andry Solofonirina Oliva Tehindrazanarivelo, the new Permanent Representative of Madagascar to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva…

Amid Middle East crisis, ‘brutal and far-reaching’ war continues in Ukraine

1 year 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home Amid Middle East crisis, ‘brutal and far-reaching’ war continues in Ukraine 31 October 2023 © UNOCHA/Saviano Abreu United Nations agencies were on the ground shortly after an airstrike killed scores of civilians in Hroza in the, east of Ukraine. As the world’s attention focuses on the unfolding emergency in the Gaza Strip, a senior UN aid official on Tuesday urged the Security Council not…

Bangladesh, Maldives, DPR Korea make ‘tremendous’ strides toward disease elimination

1 year 5 months ago Breadcrumb Home Bangladesh, Maldives, DPR Korea make ‘tremendous’ strides toward disease elimination 31 October 2023 © UNICEF/Sujan A midwife demonstrates the use of a mosquito net, designed for infants, to a new mother at a primary health centre in Bangladesh. The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday hailed the elimination of several life-threatening diseases in developing nations as a major…