DRC humanitarian update UNHCR – WHO 14 February 2025

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DRC humanitarian update UNHCR – WHO 14 February 2025

Edited News | WHO , UNHCR

DR Congo displacement, health crisis worsens amid dwindling aid access – UN humanitarians

In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a dire displacement crisis is escalating as M23 rebels make headway while aid routes are cut off, UN humanitarians warned...

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UN Geneva Press Briefing - 14 February 2025

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Press Conferences | UNHCR , IFRC , HRC , WHO

UNHCR and IFRC discuss crises in DR Congo and Ukraine, seeking urgent support.

UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk Report on Bangladesh press conference

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Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG

At a press conference in Geneva, Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, presented a report on the human rights violations and abuses related to the protests that took place in Bangladesh between 1 July and 15 August last year. The report is based on a comprehensive investigation undertaken by an interdisciplinary team of investigators from the UN Human Rights Office, including a forensic specialist and weapons expert. 

News feature - UN Human Rights report on Bangladesh

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Edited News | OHCHR

The UN Human Rights Office today released a comprehensive, in-depth report on the human rights violations and abuses related to the protests that took place in Bangladesh last year, drawing on over 250 interviews with victims, witnesses, medics and senior officials, as well as individual pieces of digital information. The team also received thousands of submissions from individuals in Bangladesh.

OHCHR Presser Türk on Bangladesh - 12 February 2025

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Press Conferences | OHCHR

Bangladesh: UN report finds brutal, systematic repression of protests, calls for justice for serious rights violations

Gaza update - OCHA,  UNOG

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Edited News | OCHA , UNOG

Gaza: a return to war must be avoided at all costs, insists UN chief

A return to war in Gaza must be avoided at all costs, UN Secretary-General António Guterres insisted on Tuesday, amid fears that the three-week old ceasefire agreement between Hamas fighters and Israel is about to end.

UN Geneva Press Briefing - 11 February 2025

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Press Conferences | OCHA , OSE , UNHCR , UNRISD , WHO , WMO

Rolando Gómez, Chief of the Press and External Relations at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid press briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on escalating violence in DRC

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Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Friday warned of the risk of the violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo escalating throughout the Great Lakes sub-region, following the recent takeover of Goma city by the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group.

DR Congo - Human Rights Council  Special Session

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Edited News | HRC

UN human rights chief Volker Türk expressed profound concerns at the ongoing violent escalation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) caused by the ongoing Rwanda-backed M23 offensive. “If nothing is done, the worst may be yet to come, for the people of the eastern DRC, but also beyond the country’s borders,” he told a Special Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

UN Geneva Press Briefing - 07 February 2025

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Press Conferences | UNAIDS , UNICEF , WHO

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid press briefing, which was attended by the representatives and spokespersons of UNAIDS, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Children’s Fund.

US funding cuts impact - UNAIDS

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Edited News | UNAIDS

US aid funding cuts create confusion, put HIV prevention at risk, says UNAIDS 

The US pause in foreign assistance funding has created “a lot of confusion” in community HIV prevention work, despite the waiver issued for HIV/AIDS programmes, the UN agency to combat AIDS (UNAIDS) said on Friday.

Human Rights Council Special session on DRC

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Statements | HRC

37th Special session of the UN Human Rights Council on the human rights situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - opening statements

US aid funding cuts,  UNFPA - OCHA - UNOG

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Edited News | UNFPA , OCHA , UNOG

UN agencies offered a dire assessment on Tuesday about the global impact of deep cuts to grassroots humanitarian funding by the incoming US administration and reiterated calls for Washington to retain its position as a global aid leader.