Launch of UN Human Rights Office report on the human rights situation in Chile relating to protests and the state of emergency
Imma Guerras-Delgado, team leader of mission to Chile Ugo Cedrangolo, team member
Young Activists Summit - Women and girls driving progress
Monica Ferro, Director, UNFPA Geneva Office Memory Banda, Founder of Foundation4GirlsLeadership Amy Meek, Co-founder of Kids Against Plastic Ella Meek, Co-founder of Kids Against Plastic Rebecca Kabuo, Member of LUCHA Hamangaí Pataxò, Member of Engajamundo Abid Shamo Kassim, Executive Director of Nadia’s Initiative Julien Bagourd, Editorial Producer tataki, Radio-Télévision Suisse Marina Wutholen, Director, dev.tv
OHCHR Press Conference - Committee Against Torture (CAT)
68th session of the Committee Against Torture
Felice Gaer, Vice Chair of the Committee and co-Rapporteur on Uzbekistan Claude Heller, Vice Chair of the Committee and co-Rapporteur on Burkina Faso Jens Modvig, Chair of the Committee and co-Rapporteur on Cyprus Rodriguez-Pinzon, Committee member and co-Rapporteur on Latvia Abdelwahab Hani, Committee member and co-Rapporteur on Niger
OCHA Global Humanitarian Overview 2020 and UNICEF Humanitarian Action for Children 2020
OCHA presents its annual Global Humanitarian Overview 2020, the world’s most comprehensive overview of the state of humanitarian action, number of people in need, and current trends. It presents coordinated response plans for humanitarian action across the world including the funding necessary to implement them. . UNICEF launches its Humanitarian Action for Children 2020 financial appeal to meet the needs of children affected by conflict and disaster across the globe. UNICEF’s HAC appeals are aligned with the GHO but include additional country and regional appeals.
EMBARGOED until Wednesday, 4 December 2019 - 05:00 GMT / 06:00 CET Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Manuel Fontaine, Director of Emergency Programmes, UNICEF
Q&A session about IFRC humanitarian priorities (Venezuela, Syria, migration, the humanitarian consequences of climate change etc.)
Francesco Rocca, President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Presentation of the report entitled Economic cost of the Israeli occupation for the Palestinian people: Fiscal aspects
Mutasim Elagraa, Economist, Assistance to the Palestinian People Unit, UNCTAD
WHO launches first report tracking global progress on health and climate change
WHO will launch the first report providing the global findings from over 100 countries. The findings will provide a snapshot of the overall progress governments have made in the field of health and climate change to date, as well as insight into what work remains to be done in order to protect their populations from the most devastating health impacts of climate change. The briefing will also provide an opportunity to highlight the key health messages WHO is bringing to the upcoming COP25 in Madrid, Spain.
EMBARGOED until Tuesday, 3 December 2019 - 10:00 GMT / 11:00 CET
Dr Maria Neira, Director, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, WHO
Dr. Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Team Leader, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, WHO
New global mortality figures for measles for 2018 and update on 2019
WHO and the US CDC will release new global mortality figures for measles, embargoed until December 5th. WHO will provide a briefing on these numbers as well as the current measles situation, and the major outbreaks in the world today. EMBARGOED until 5 December 2019 - 1:00 p.m. (EST, Atlanta) / 07:00 p.m. (CET, Geneva) Dr. Kate O’Brien, Director, Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, WHO Dr Ian Norton, Manager, Emergency Medical Teams, WHO
Emissions Gap report
The United Nations Environment Programme’s annual Emissions Gap report reveals the temperature rise we are currently headed for by the end of the century compared to pre-industrial times. It also reveals the amount we need to cut emissions by in order to bring the temperature rise down to internationally-agreed levels. Both conditional and non-conditional pledges made by countries under the Paris Agreement are analysed. The report - which is produced together with an international team of leading scientists - furthermore lays out actions that can be taken for reducing emissions in specific sectors. Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) John Christensen, Director, UNEP-Danish Technology Institute Partnership Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Abdalah Mokssit, Secretary, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Katia Simeonova, Manager, Mitigation and Data Analysis Programme (MDA), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
