Edited News | UNOG , UNITED NATIONS
More than one quarter of members of parliament in the world are now women - Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
Press Conferences | OHCHR , UNHCR , OCHA , WHO , WFP , UNCTAD , IPU
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Conference on Trade and...
Press Conferences | WHO
WHO will present an overview of WHO activities in response to the Ebola outbreak in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Edited News | WHO
With 18 Ebola cases reported, 14 confirmed, and four deaths to date, the West African nation of Guinea is becoming the focus of an urgent public health response involving national health authorities, local communities, the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners. An Ebola vaccine has been...
Press Conferences
10th anniversary of the Syria crisis: update from the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
Press Conferences | UNDP
Call for a temporary basic income for women during COVID-19
Press Conferences | OHCHR , UNHCR , UNOG , UNITED NATIONS , WFP
Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section 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 CITES Secretariat, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)...
Edited News | UNHCR , WFP
The World Food Programme (WFP) and the UNHCR, the U.N. Refugee Agency, appealed today for US$266 million to end food ration cuts for over 3 million refugees in East Africa. During the last months, WFP has been forced to implement ration cuts for refugees in Uganda (40%), Kenya (40%), South Sudan...
Press Conferences | WIPO
International Patent System in 2020. International Trademark & Design Systems in 2020
Edited News | UNOG , UNITED NATIONS
UN independent expert Agnès Callamard today welcomed a report published earlier this week by U.S. authorities that named Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman as the person who gave the go ahead to the operation to kill or capture journalist Jamal Khashoggi.