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WHO with FAO, WFP, UNFPA hybrid press conference
26 June 2023
Press Conference Announcement
Greater horn of Africa Crisis: shifting weather patterns and the changing food and health outlook
Brenda Lazarus, Food Security and Early Warning Economist at FAO’s Subregional Office for Eastern Africa
Dominique Ferretti, WFP Senior Emergency Officer, Regional Bureau Nairobi
Michael Ebele, UNFPA Regional Humanitarian Adviser for East and Southern Africa…
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Thailand: Moving from punishment to treatment of people who use drugs
25 June 2023
UN News/Daniel Dickinson
The Ozone Foundation is based in a suburb of the Thai capital, Bangkok.
People who use drugs in Thailand are receiving more help to reduce the harm caused by their habit thanks to a change in formerly punitive drug laws and support from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC…
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A knowledge-based approach to tackling Afghanistan’s drug abuse crisis
25 June 2023
UN News / David Mottershead
A man gazing into the distance at the Avicenna Drug Treatment Centre in Kabul, Afghanistan.
There are many dangers lurking in the shadows just off the bustling streets of the Afghan capital Kabul, but none is more threatening than the drug abuse crisis that is ravaging the city,…
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Ukraine’s ‘Wild West’: Rebuilding a ‘new’ Kharkiv during an invasion
24 June 2023
Michail Kantorovich
Maxim Rosenfeld, an architect from Kharkiv.
The Ukrainian city of Kharkiv had just survived another missile attack in the spring of 2022 following Russia’s full-scale invasion, when historian, architect, and documentary filmmaker Maxim Rosenfeld stood in the penthouse of a ruined office…
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AFTERNOON - Human Rights Council Holds an Interactive Dialogue on the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons Affected by Leprosy and their Family Members and Concludes a Dialogue on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression
23 June 2023
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the elimination of…
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OHCHR hybrid press conference
23 June 2023
Press Conference Announcement
Engagement on global issues pertaining to violence against women and girls, including child custody issues and violence against women; will include a brief on country visits to Türkiye and Libya
Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls
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PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE
23 June 2023
UN Geneva Press Briefing
Rolando Gómez, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Telecommunication Union, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the Human Rights Council.
Occupied West Bank…
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MORNING - Special Rapporteur to the Human Rights Council: the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression is a Catalyst and Ingredient of Sustainable Development
23 June 2023
Meeting Summaries
Council Concludes Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, its Causes and Consequences…
