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24-02-2020 | Edited News

Press conference: OCHA North-West Syria

ENG

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 warned on Monday.

21-02-2020 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: North-West Syria OCHA

ENG

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 “bloodbath” unless a ceasefire is agreed.

21-02-2020 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Sahel Emergency UNHCR

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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 region.

18-02-2020 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Humanitarian Situation in Idlib - Syria OHCHR/WHO/UNICEF

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UN right chief, agencies appalled at civilian toll in wartorn Syria’s north-east. Facing freezing temperatures and bombing, more than 900,000  civilians in Syria’s north-west have been forced into ever smaller areas in search of shelter, the UN’s top rights official said on Tuesday.

14-02-2020 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: North-West Syria WFP - OSE Syria

ENG

Vital Idlib aid deliveries resume after ‘heavy bombing’ - WFP

11-02-2020 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Coronavirus Update - WHO

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Coronavirus deaths surpass 1,000 as scientists gather at WHO headquarters to discuss next steps

07-02-2020 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Syria - OHCHR

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At the United Nations briefing in Geneva Marta Hurtado spokesperson for the Office of the UN high Commissioner for Human Rights, briefed journalist on deep concerns regarding the hostilities and disregard for the protection of civilians as fighting continues to kill and injure scores of civilians around Idlib and Aleppo.

07-02-2020 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Antarctic Record Temperature - WMO

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Fresh fears of accelerating damage to the planet’s ice sheets and sea level rise have been fuelled by confirmation from the UN’s weather agency that the Antarctic likely saw a new temperature record of more than 18C on Thursday.

06-02-2020 | Edited News , Press Conferences

Stakeout: Libya Talks 5 + 5 - Ghassan Salamé

ENG

On day four of UN-led talks to transform an uncertain truce in Libya into a permanent ceasefire, veteran negotiator Ghassan Salamé on Thursday welcomed the “progress” that had been made so far, before urging an end to any “provocative” military action that might dash the chance of a successful outcome.

04-02-2020 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Humanitarian Situation in Idlib - Syria - UN/OCHA/WHO

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The United Nations has sounded the alarm over a severe humanitarian crisis unfolding in Syria's northwest, where Syrian government troops and Turkish forces are fighting in Syria's north-western province of Idlib, the last area in the country under opposition control. More than 520,000 people fled their homes, most of them women and children, due to the continued fighting in the last two months.

04-02-2020 | Edited News

Stakeout: Libya Talks 5 + 5 - Ghassan Salamé

ENG

The UN negotiator leading talks in Geneva to secure an end to fighting in Libya said on Tuesday that high-ranking officials from both sides of the conflict have agreed to begin work on a “permanent and lasting” ceasefire to replace an uncertain truce.

31-01-2020 | Edited News

Press conference: UNRWA US Middle East Plan

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After the release of the US Middle East peace plan earlier this week, a lot of Palestinians are “in a state of shock at this point”, said Christian Saunders, acting Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) today at the United Nations in Geneva.

31-01-2020 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Coronavirus Update - WHO

ENG

Amid the significant increase in numbers of infections of the novel coronavirus and additional countries reporting confirmed cases globally, the Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization has declared last night a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).

28-01-2020 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Coronavirus Update - WHO

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The WHO has upped the global risk assessment that the novel coronavirus poses from moderate to high risk but have not yet declared the outbreak an international public health emergency.

24-01-2020 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Locust Outbreak Response in East Africa OCHA

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The Horn of Africa has been hit by the worst invasion of desert locusts in 25 years, posing a threat to food security to the population in East Africa that is already experiencing a high degree of food insecurity, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today (Friday). In order to scale up the response to the devastating desert locust outbreak in East Africa, OCHA’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) released $10 million.

21-01-2020 | Edited News

Press conference: High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement

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As Geneva prepares to host its first ever high-level panel on Internal Displacement, the co-chair of the panel called the issue “a major humanitarian and political crisis of our times.”

21-01-2020 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Coronavirus Update - WHO

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Amid rising cases of new infections of the respiratory illness novel coronavirus in China and three other countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) today informed that their emergency committee will convene tomorrow to advise if the current situation in China constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.

16-01-2020 | Edited News

Human Rights Council Press conference: Commission of Inquiry launches report on children in Syria

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Children in Syria have been “robbed of their childhood” and forced to “endure numerous violations” in more than eights years of conflict, according to the latest report by the independent body set up by the UN’s Human Rights Council to investigate violations during the civil war in Syria.

14-01-2020 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Libya Migrants - IOM

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Nearly 1,000 Migrants Returned to Libya in the First Two Weeks of 2020: IOM. Nearly 1,000 migrants, including more than two hundred women and children, have been returned to Libyan shores since the beginning of the year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said today. Most have disembarked in Tripoli, as armed clashes are reported to continue in the capital, and all have been taken to detention centres, according to IOM spokesperson Safa Msehli.   

14-01-2020 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing : New Coronavirus China - WHO

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The World Health Organization (WHO) today confirmed the presence of new coronavirus in China, a respiratory illness with 41 confirmed cases and one death to date, as investigations continue and health agencies prepare for a possible outbreak.

10-01-2020 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: El Salvador - UNHCR

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El Salvador’s new legislation to help people internally displaced by violence will help tens of thousands of people who have been displaced by gang violence and organized crime, the UN Refugee Agency said today.

07-01-2020 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Australian Bushfire Update - WMO

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More bushfires may be in store for Australia as its summer season progresses and climate change plays its role, says WMO

07-01-2020 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing : Idlib Syria Update - OCHA

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At least 300,000 civilians have fled their homes in northwest Syria amid intense air and ground bombardment, with winter conditions worsening an escalating humanitarian crisis, the United Nations said today.

20-12-2019 | Edited News

António Guterres & Pope Francis, Holy See

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In a meeting at the Holy See on Friday, the UN Secretary-General paid tribute to Pope Francis for his “clear moral voice” in defence of “the most vulnerable, including refugees and migrants, confronting poverty and inequalities, appealing for disarmament, building bridges between communities and, of course, highlighting the climate emergency”.

20-12-2019 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Lesotho Emergency Appeal OCHA

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Lesotho: tens of thousands ‘one step away from famine’ as drought impacts harvests

17-12-2019 | Edited News

UN/UNHCR Press conference : Global Refugee Forum - Guterres - Grandi

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and UNHCR High Commissioner Grandi on the Global Refugee Forum

17-12-2019 | Edited News

UNHCR - Global Refugee Forum - Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General

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At a three-day global forum aimed at transforming the way the world responds to refugee situations, UN Secretary General António Guterres took the stage in Geneva, Switzerland, today to underscore the importance of protecting refugees, respecting their rights, and addressing the causes of human displacement.

13-12-2019 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: DRC Ebola Update, Dr Michel Yao - WHO

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has seen an increase in the number of reported cases of the deadly haemorrhagic virus Ebola linked to ongoing violence by armed groups targeting remote communities, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. According to the UN agency’s latest outbreak update, 27 new cases were identified last week in the east of the country – three times the average number of infections in the past 21 days.

10-12-2019 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Measles Outbreak Samoa - OCHA & WHO

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Efforts to help the small Pacific island of Samoa overcome a deadly measles outbreak have received a $2.6 million boost from the UN’s emergency fund, CERF. The development – announced in New York by the organisation’s emergency relief chief Mark Lowcock - comes as deaths from the preventable disease reached 70, the vast majority being children under five.

06-12-2019 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Iran Protests OHCHR

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As more information gradually filters out of Iran in the wake of the recent protests, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday expressed alarm “at the continuing lack of transparency about casualties and the treatment” of thousands of detainees, as well as continuing arrests reported to be taking place across the country.

06-12-2019 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Brazil Recognizing Venezuelan Refugees UNHCR

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“The Brazilian government continues to lead the humanitarian response for the most vulnerable Venezuelans arriving in the country, while also promoting innovative, open and generous ways to support their socio-economic inclusion” for some 224,000 Venezuelans already in Brazil, UN Refugee Agency said on Friday in Geneva.

03-12-2019 | Edited News

OCHA Press conference: Global Humanitarian Appeal

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A record 166 million people worldwide will need help and protection in crises spanning more than 50 countries in 2020, the UN’s emergency relief chief said, in an appeal for nearly $29 billion in humanitarian aid from donors. Climatic shocks, large infectious disease outbreaks and intensifying, protracted conflicts have resulted in global needs increasing by some 22 million people in the past year, Mark Lowcock told journalists in Geneva.

29-11-2019 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: DR Congo Beni Update

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Violence in DRC Ebola hotspot leaves people ‘caught in crossfire’, disrupts aid relief. Attacks on communities in an Ebola outbreak hotspot in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have created a humanitarian crisis and threatened aid distribution, the UN said on Friday, amid reports of serious civil unrest.

26-11-2019 | Edited News

Syrian Constitutional Committee Arrivals

ENG

Footage of Syrian Constitutional Committee Arrivals featuring delegations representing the Government, Opposition and Civil Society at United Nations Geneva on Monday 26 November 2019, includes various cutaways.

26-11-2019 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: World AIDS Day - UNAIDS

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New HIV infections are in decline worldwide and more people living with HIV gain access to treatment, according to a new report released today by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

26-11-2019 | Edited News

UNEP Press conference: Emissions Gap Report 2019

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Climate procrastination means we now need to cut emissions by more than half, urge UN climate experts. The world must more than halve greenhouse gas emissions in the next 10 years – by some 30 billion tonnes - to try to limit average global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, leading UN scientists said on Tuesday.

25-11-2019 | Edited News

Syrian Constitutional Committee Arrivals

ENG

Footage of Syrian Constitutional Committee Arrivals featuring delegations representing the Government, Opposition and Civil Society at United Nations Geneva on Monday 25 November 2019, includes various cutaways.

25-11-2019 | Edited News

WMO Press conference: Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Another year of record emissions, warns UN meteorological agency head. Levels of the three main heat-trapping gases emitted into the atmosphere – carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) – have reached yet another high, the UN meteorological agency, WMO, said on Monday.

22-11-2019 | Edited News

UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Ebola Update - WHO

ENG

Potential new Ebola virus transmission chain risks reversing major gains: WHO

21-11-2019 | Edited News

UNICEF Press Conference: Syria Update

ENG

Missile strike kills at least 12 civilians, including children, in Syria’s Idlib province: UN humanitarians. Violence in Syria continues to kill and maim civilians with reports that missiles fired into settlements for people fleeing conflict in the country’s northwest on Wednesday night killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens more, including children, UN humanitarians said on Thursday.