Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the Permanent Representative of India to the Conference on Disarmament, the Coordinator and Head of Strategic Programmes, Patient Safety, for the World Health Organization and the spokespersons for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization and the World Trade Organization.Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems...

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Refugee Agency.YemenMr. LeBlanc said the high-level pledging event for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen had begun that morning at the Palais des Nations. The Secretary-General of the United Nations was present alongside the hosts of the event, the Governments of Sweden and Switzerland. The 2018 Humanitarian Response Plan for Yemen required $2.96 billion to reach...

Michele Zaccheo, Chief of the Radio and Television Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.Yemen — the impact of the conflict on educationMeritxell Relano, Representative for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Yemen, speaking via telephone from Sana’a, said that education in Yemen was experiencing a silent crisis that...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, the International Organization for Migration and the International Telecommunication Union.SyriaJens Laerke, for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said that the hostilities in Afrin district had displaced an estimated 167,000 people. Some 137,000 of them had left...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, the World Meteorological Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the International Labour Organization and the Inter-Parliamentary Union.Human Rights CouncilRolando Gomez, for...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives for the United Nations Refugee Agency, United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Health Organization. Later, Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, took over the chair.Uganda - Fresh arrivals from the Democratic Republic of the CongoBabar Baloch, for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), made the following statement:“UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration and the United Nations Children’s Fund.Update on the Human Rights Council Rolando Gomez, for the Human Rights Council, said that a panel discussion that morning was addressing the human rights of children in the Syrian Arab Republic. Nearly two thirds of the 8.35 million children in Syria were in need of humanitarian assistance. The Deputy...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme and the World Trade Organization.Human Rights Council Rolando Gomez, for the Human Rights Council, said that the interactive dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights had concluded the previous day. Some 99 States had participated in the process, which...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration and the International Labour Organization.Human Rights CouncilRolando Gomez, for the Human Rights Council, said that on Tuesday, 6 March, at 9 a.m.,...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives for the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the United Nations Office, Geneva, the Human Rights Council, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration and the World Trade Organization.International Women’s Week (5-9 March) and International Women’s Day (8 March)Martin Chungong, Secretary-General of the International Postal (IPU), said IPU tracked the representation of women in parliaments throughout the world...