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WMO partnership to highlight damaging impact of climate change on winter sports
03 October 2024
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) announced on Thursday they are partnering to raise awareness about climate change’s harmful effects on winter sports and tourism.
The two organizations are joining forces to call…
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Director-General's remarks at the Opening of the photo exhibition "The Sovereign Order of Malta today"
03 October 2024
Tatiana Valovaya
Opening of the photo exhibition “The Sovereign Order of Malta today” Thursday, 3 October 2024 at 12.00 p.m.Room XVIII, Palais des Nations Your Most Eminent Highness,Excellencies,Ladies and gentlemen,It is a great pleasure to welcome you all to the opening of this photo exhibition “The Sovereign Order of Malta Today…
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Director-General's remarks at the Presentation of the publication "30 years of the Sovereign Order of Malta at the United Nations"
03 October 2024
Tatiana Valovaya
Presentation of the publication “30 years of the Sovereign Order of Malta at the United Nations”Thursday, 3 October 2024, at 11:30 a.m.Room XVIII, Palais des Nations Your Most Eminent Highness,Excellencies,Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my great pleasure to welcome you today at the…
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New Permanent Representative of Kenya Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
02 October 2024
Presentation of Credentials
Fancy Chepkemoi Too, the new Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.Prior to her appointment in Geneva, she served…
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UN rights chief adds voice to urgent calls for Middle East de-escalation
02 October 2024
Hours after Iran fired a reported 200 missiles at Israel in response to Israeli military incursions in southern Lebanon raising fears of a wider Middle East escalation, UN human rights chief Volker Türk insisted on Wednesday that “peace must prevail” in the Middle East, while UN Member States meeting in Geneva reiterated calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and beyond.…
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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: End ‘sickening cycle’ of escalation across the Middle East, Guterres urges
02 October 2024
Security Council members met in emergency session on Tuesday morning in New York with the Middle East on the brink of all-out war. App users can reprise our live coverage here.
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World News in Brief: Half of Haiti’s displaced are children, alarm over low immunisation rates, aid to East Africa
02 October 2024
A breakdown in law and order and a wider humanitarian emergency across Haiti have displaced more than 700,000 people – one in two of them children – the UN migration office, IOM, said on Wednesday.
New data from the International…
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Security Council briefed on progress in UN-AU partnership for peace
02 October 2024
Despite the significant peace and security challenges facing Africa, there are reasons to be hopeful, the head of the UN Office to the African Union (UNOAU) told ambassadors at the Security Council on Wednesday, urging their continued focus on the continent.
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UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING
01 October 2024
UN Geneva Press Briefing
Rolando Gómez, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, and the…
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Lebanon crisis: UN launches $426 million aid appeal with ‘limited’ Israeli ground incursion underway
01 October 2024
UN humanitarians launched a $426 million appeal for Lebanon on Tuesday to support one million people uprooted by widespread Israeli shelling amid what Israel has described as a “limited, localised and targeted” ground operation into Lebanon, across the UN-patrolled line of separation…
