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Discrimination against those affected by coronavirus/COVID-19 must be tackled head on by Governments everywhere, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Thursday, in an appeal for “transparency and information” to help combat the epidemic.
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Secretary-General says UN needs to recognize failures and "be humble" in better responding to "the will of the people"
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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 World Health Organization (WHO), the International Trade Center (ITC), the United...
Edited News , Press Conferences | WHO
UN Chief urges countries to ‘do everything’ against COVID-19, thanks China’s people for sacrifice. While the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the COVID-19 outbreak should not be described as a pandemic because it is not spreading uncontrollably, UN Secretary-General on Monday urged all...
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
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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms. Michelle Bachelet
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Secretary General H.E. Mr. António Guterres
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President of the General Assembly H.E. Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande