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Statements | HRC
“Human rights are our mainstay against unbridled power,” says Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in his Global Update delivery to the Human Rights Council on the opening of its 57th session
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Press Conferences | UNHCR , IOM , FAO , ITU
Rolando Gómez, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid press briefing, which was attended by spokespersons...
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Edited News , Press Conferences | HRC
Sudan crisis: Rights investigators demand arms embargo extension to end ‘rampant’ abuses
Top human rights investigators into Sudan’s brutal war called on Friday for a country-wide arms embargo as they recounted harrowing testimony of victims of horrific...
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Press Conferences | HRC
President of the Human Rights Council ahead of 57th session
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Press Conferences | ILO
Launch of the “World Employment and Social Outlook: September 2024 update” report
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Edited News | OHCHR
The UN Human Rights Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani provided the following update on the detained UN staff in Yemen, at the bi-weekly press briefing in Geneva.
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Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
The human rights situation in Nicaragua has seriously deteriorated since last year, with increasing cases of arbitrary detentions, intimidation of opponents, ill-treatment in custody and attacks against Indigenous peoples, according to a report by the UN Human Rights Office released today.
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Edited News | WHO , UNICEF
Gaza: UN humanitarian agencies ahead of their targets for polio vaccinations, says WHO
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that 161,030 children under 10 years of age had been vaccinated in central Gaza after the first two days of the UN-led mass...
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Press Conferences | OHCHR , UNCTAD , UNICEF , WHO
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the World Health Organization,...
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Edited News | UNRWA
The UN-led mass polio vaccination campaign entered its second day in central Gaza on Monday with pauses in fighting holding sufficiently for thousands more children to receive their dose, in addition to the 87,000 who received their first round on Sunday, UN agencies said.