Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization and the International Telecommunication Union.Libya Rhéal LeBlanc, for the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, drew attention to a tweet by the Secretary-General that morning, in which he stated that he was flying…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Ibrahima-Socé Fall, for the World Health Organization, speaking by telephone from Butembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, said that, as of 1 April 2019, there were 1,089 cases of Ebola virus disease in the country…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, 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 World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the United Nations Development Programme.Gaza Jens Laerke, for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), gave the following statement: “Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the start of the ‘Great March of Return’ demonstrations in the Gaza Strip. In this past…

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 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the International Organization for Migration and the United Nations Refugee Agency. Cyclone Idai Djamila Cabral, WHO Representative of Mozambique for the World Health Organization (…

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 United Nations Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration. Cyclone Idai Jens Laerke, for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), made the following statement: “In Mozambique, the official death toll has risen to at least 242 people, according to the Government, but many…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the World Meteorological Organization, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the Human Rights Council, the Economic Commission for Europe and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Cyclone Idai Lola Castro, Southern Africa and India Ocean States Regional Director for the World Food Programme (WFP…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Food Programme and the World Health Organization. Attacks on mosques in New Zealand Alessandra Vellucci, for the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, said that the Director-General extended his condolences to the families and loved ones of all the victims in the day’s attacks on several mosques in New Zealand. Joel Millman, for the…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Telecommunication Union, the International Organization for Migration, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Human Rights Council, the World Health Organization and United Nations Water. Ethiopian Airlines accident Alessandra Vellucci, for the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, recalled that the previous day the Secretary-General…

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 Environment Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the World Health Organization.International Women’s Day Alessandra Vellucci, for the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, said that, in his message for International Women’s Day, the Secretary-General had stated that gender equality was fundamentally a question of power and that the balance would not begin to shift until women’…

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