Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva , chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Human Rights Council, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development , and the World Health Organization. Discussion on Libyan Draft Constitutional Framework for Elections at the Palais des Nations Mr. LeBlanc reported that the Secretary-General’s…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of Education Cannot Wait, the Human Rights Council, the United Nations Mine Action Service, the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Education Cannot Wait Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait, said that 222 million children and youth were seeing their education disrupted by emergency…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid press briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons of the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Meteorological Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, and the Human Rights Council. Displacement in Burkina Faso Alessandra Vellucci, for the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), referred to the statement by the Secretary-General, in which he strongly condemned the appalling attack on the night of 11 June against…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by the spokespeople and representatives of the World Food Programme, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the Human Rights Council, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Food security crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean Lola Castro, World Food Programme Regional Director in Latin…

Rhéal LeBlanc of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Human Rights Council, the World Trade Organization, the International Federation of the Red Cross, the Food and Agricultural Organization, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Populations Fund, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Human Rights Council Rolando Gomez, for the Human Rights Council, said that the Human Rights…

  Rhéal LeBlanc , Chief of Press and External Relations at theUnited Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the World Health Organization. Somalia Drought Emergency Etienne Peterschmitt, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative in Somalia, said that FAO, World Food Programme (WFP) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) were sounding the alarm on the deteriorating food…

<Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the Crisis Coordinator for Ukraine and the spokespersons and representatives of the World Food Programme, the World Health Organisation, the United Nations Populations Fund, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Organisation for Migration, the United Nations Development Programme, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. UKRAINE: 100 Days since the 24 February Russian invasion of Ukraine United Nations…

  Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organisation, the World Meteorological Organisation, and the International Organisation for Migration. 8th Session of the Syrian Constitutional Committee Jenifer Fenton, for the Special Envoy for Syria (OSE), said the Syrian-led, Syrian owned, UN-facilitated Small Body of the Constitutional Committee…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, the World Health Organisation, The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the World Food Program. Constitutional Committee Jenifer Fenton, for the Special Envoy for Syria (OSE), said that the members of the Constitutional Committee Small Body arrived in Geneva this weekend for the 8th session and were scheduled to convene Monday through Friday. She would…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Health Organisation, the International Telecommunication Union, the International Labour Organization, and the United Nations High Commissiones for Refugees.  Monkeypox Outbreak Dr Rosamund Lewis, Head, Smallpox Secretariat, World Health Organisation Emergencies Programme, said that there had been a multi-country outbreak of monkeypox. WHO had…