UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk held a wide-ranging press conference in Geneva during which he commented, among others, on the following issues:
Launch of the Final Report of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All.
Health conditions of Palestine refugees in the Near East
Cyclone Mocha: urgent funding needed in Myanmar and Bangladesh as hunger, diseases loom
Update on the humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sudan emergency: One million now displaced in ongoing conflict
98% chance at least one in the next five years will beat the temperature record set in 2016, says WMO latest report
Dozens feared dead in Myanmar as Cyclone Mocha creates ‘nightmare scenario’ for aid teams
At the bi-weekly press briefing on Tuesday, Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office, made the following statement on Haiti.
At the bi-weekly press briefing on Tuesday, Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office, made the following statement on the frightening number of executions Iran.
The number of internally displaced persons in Sudan has more than doubled in the last week, with more than 700,000 people internally displaced since armed clashes erupted between the Sudanese Army Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in multiple cities across Sudan, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Friday urged States to keep borders open to people fleeing ongoing hostilities in Sudan and to suspend "negative asylum decisions" for Sudanese nationals outside the country who cannot return because of the conflict.
Sudan crisis: UN’s top humanitarian official urges safe passage agreements for aid convoys
"World should prepare for El Nino development, associated with increased heat and drought", says WMO
$1.5 billion funding gap for UN humanitarian response appeal in Sudan; relief efforts scale up as border crossings increase
Two weeks after the fighting erupted between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces, imposing fear, deprivation, trauma and suffering on the civilian population, the human rights situation in Sudan continues to dramatically deteriorate. At the bi-weekly news briefing in Geneva, UN Human rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani made the following statement:
“Millions more could plunge into hunger; forcibly displaced are facing worsening risks,” warn UN Humanitarian agencies.
At the bi-weekly news briefing in Geneva, UN Human Rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani made the following statement on Imminent execution in Singapore.
At the bi-weekly news briefing in Geneva, UN Human Rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani made the following statement:
At the bi-weekly news briefing in Geneva, Ravina Shamdasani made the following statement on Burkina Faso: Killing of civilians.
Continued heavy fighting in Sudan is having devastating consequences for children, UNICEF says
Humanitarian agencies have called today for an immediate cessation to hostilities in Sudan and urged the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to ensure safe access for medical workers and ambulances so they can bring assistance to the wounded.
At the bi-weekly press briefing on Tuesday, United Nations Spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) Seif Magango made the following comments on the events in Sudan.
A dire lack of humanitarian funding has left hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced people in Chad facing hunger in the coming months, UN agencies said on Friday.
As humanitarian needs increase for displaced people at the Somali-Ethiopian border, relocation for the most vulnerable has begun, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday.
Présentation orale du Haut-Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l’homme sur la République Centre Africaine à la 52ème session du Conseil des droits de l’homme.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today made the following statement on Ukraine at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Déclaration de Volker Türk, Haut-Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l’homme, sur la République démocratique du Congo.
The number of conflict-related deaths between 2020 and 2021 increased worldwide by 46 per cent, amid increasing violence in Afghanistan, Yemen and Ethiopia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.
Findings of the final report of the Libya Fact-Finding Mission.