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#3Minutes | Defending Indigenous People's rights
Indigenous Peoples play an essential role in protecting biodiversity, preserving ecosystems and transmitting valuable knowledge, but they are nearly three times more likely to live in poverty, compared to non-indigenous peoples. In less than three minutes, find out how the UN works alongside them to defend their rights and protect their languages, cultures, beliefs and knowledge.
UN Geneva Press Briefing: UNITAR, WMO, WHO - 4.09.09
🎥 Merger of the UN System Staff College and the UN Institute for Training and Research; 🎥 Attacks on WHO warehouses in Ukraine; 🎥 Announcements.
Powerful El Niño heightens extreme weather risks through 2027 - 3.09.26
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Secretary-General Celeste Saulo announced today that forecasts show a near 100 percent chance that El Niño will persist through to February 2027, peaking towards the end of 2026. Saulo warns that this El Niño will be the strongest recorded, literally off the charts used by WMO for the past four decades. WMO is calling for action to anticipate risks and mitigate the severity of ElNiño's impacts.
UN Geneva Press Briefing: UN WOMEN, IFRC, OCHA, WHO, WFP, WMO - 1.09.26
🎥 Aftermath of the Nepal floods; 🎥 Deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territories; 🎥 Announcements.
Happening at UN Geneva
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the body of 18 Independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by its State parties. It also monitors implementation of two Optional Protocols to the Convention, on involvement of children in armed conflict and on sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
Over the past 30 years, children's lives have been transformed by the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. The Convention on the Rights of the Child has inspired governments to change laws and policies, so more children get the healthcare and nutrition they need. There are better safeguards in place to protect children from violence and exploitation. More children have their voices heard and participate in society. But there is still more work to be done.
