Edited News , Statements | UNOG
People’s basic human rights – their birthright - are “under assault”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday, as he launched a Call to Action aimed at boosting equality and reducing suffering everywhere.
Edited News | OCHA , UNOG
Syria: fears of a ‘bloodbath’ as shelling nears terrified, traumatised displacement camps. Around a million civilians in northwest Syria could face “a real bloodbath, a real massacre” amid an ongoing push by Government forces in the country’s last opposition-held region, a senior UN humanitarian...
Statements | UNITED NATIONS , WFP
Host country S.E. M. Ignazio Cassis, Chef du Département fédéral des Affaires étrangères de la Confédération Suisse
Statements | UNITED NATIONS
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms. Michelle Bachelet
Statements | UNITED NATIONS
Secretary General H.E. Mr. António Guterres
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President of the General Assembly H.E. Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande
Statements | UNITED NATIONS
Opening of the session by the President of theuman Rights Council H.E. Ms. Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger
Press Conferences | UNOG
Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the Human Rights Council (HRC), the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the Office for the Coordination of...
Edited News | OCHA , UNOG
Fleeing violence in north-west Syria, families now forced to burn clothes to stay warm. Families fleeing violence in north-west Syria have resorted to burning their clothes to protect themselves against freezing winter temperatures, UN humanitarians said on Friday, while also warning of a potential...
Edited News | UNHCR , UNOG
Escalating Burkina Faso violence brings wider Sahel displacement emergency into focus. Deadly attacks on villages in Burkina Faso have forced 150,000 people to flee in the last three weeks alone, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Friday, warning of a displacement emergency in the wider Sahel...