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UN Geneva Press Briefing: UNHCR, ITU, WMO, WHO - 22.09.26
🎥 81st Session of the General Assembly; 🎥 Yemen: Escalating conflict could fuel more displacement and refugee movement; Health and climate impact of El Niño; 🎥 Announcements.
#UNGA 81 General Debate Live - 22 September 2026 (Day 1) - SG, USA, France, UK and more!
Join us LIVE for the 81st United Nations General Assembly debate! From 22 - 26 and 28 September 2026. Heads of State and Government, ministers and advocates come together to explore solutions to intertwined global challenges to advance peace, security, and sustainable development. The theme for the general debate of the 81st session of the General Assembly is "Restoring trust, managing transformation: a United Nations that delivers for all".
Can a Nation Survive Without Land?
For some low-lying States, rising sea levels are no longer a distant threat. As coastlines retreat and habitable territory disappears, the world faces unprecedented questions about sovereignty, nationality, maritime boundaries and statehood. Discover how a changing climate could reshape one of the foundations of the international system.
The second UN Global Risk Report is out
1,300 respondents assess the risks most likely to shape the years ahead, and how prepared the world is to meet them.
Happening at UN Geneva
Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
The Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) is the body of independent experts which monitors the implementation of the Convention for the Protection of all Persons against Enforced Disappearance by the States parties.
The Committee and its Secretariat work daily to support victims, civil society organizations, National Human Rights Institutions and States to search for and locate disappeared persons, eradicate, punish and prevent this crime, and repair the damage suffered by the victims.
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the body of 18 Independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by its State parties. It also monitors implementation of two Optional Protocols to the Convention, on involvement of children in armed conflict and on sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
Over the past 30 years, children's lives have been transformed by the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. The Convention on the Rights of the Child has inspired governments to change laws and policies, so more children get the healthcare and nutrition they need. There are better safeguards in place to protect children from violence and exploitation. More children have their voices heard and participate in society. But there is still more work to be done.
