Edited News | OHCHR
Orateur du Bureau des droits de l'homme de l'ONU, Liz Throssell, et James Heenan, Représentant du Bureau des droits de l'homme de l'ONU à Séoul, ont informé les journalistes à Genève mardi sur le travail forcé institutionnalisé en RPDC. Lien vers le rapport complet : https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/forced-labour-democratic-peoples-republic-korea
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Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
Nada Al-Nashif, UN Deputy Human Rights Chief told the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday that human rights violations and abuses by all parties to the conflict in Sudan continue to spiral out of control.
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Edited News | WHO
Northern Gaza-bound UN convoy stopped ahead of polio vaccination campaign in the area – WHO
Safe and sustained access is essential for the success of the polio vaccination campaign in Northern Gaza and UN humanitarians will try again to reach the area with fuel following an attempt blocked by the Israeli military, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
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Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
'Human rights are our mainstay against unbridled power and can steer us towards greater justice and stability' says Volker Türk, UN Human Rights Chief at the 57th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva
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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 sexual attacks whose bodies are viewed as a “theatre of operation” by fighters acting with total impunity.
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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 vaccination campaign, surpassing the initial target of 156,000. The figure amounts to about a quarter of the total population needing to be reached - some 640,000 children.
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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.
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Edited News , Press Conferences | WMO
We must do more to keep the air we breathe clean, says UN weather agency
Unchecked climate change, wildfires and air pollution continue to have “a spiralling, negative impact on health, ecosystems and agriculture”, with millions of deaths attributed to the dirty air we breathe, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday.
According to a new report from the UN agency covering air quality and its impact on the climate, the first eight months of 2024 have seen no let-up in periods of intense heat and persistent droughts around the world, “fuelling the risk of wildfires and air pollution”.
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Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
The UN Human Rights Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani provided the following update on UN Human Rights Office work in Bangladesh at the bi-weekly press conference.
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Edited News | WHO
Humanitarian pauses in Gaza fighting will enable polio vaccine campaign to begin Sunday, says WHO
The United Nations has reached a tentative agreement with parties involved in the war in Gaza for humanitarian pauses to allow 640,000 children to be vaccinated amid an outbreak of the virus. According to UN World Health Organization (WHO) Representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, the two-round vaccination campaign is due to begin on 1 September in central Gaza for three days, then move to the southern and northern areas. A second dose will be administered after four weeks.
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Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
At the bi-weekly press conference in Geneva, Ravina Shamdasani Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights made the following comments on the recent adoption of the repressive law in Afghanistan.