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Geneva Press Briefing: UNCHR, UNRWA, WHO, OCHA - 20.05.25
🎦 Mass Returns Push Afghanistan to the Brink as International Support Declines; 🎦 Updates on Gaza and Occupied Palestinian Territory; 🎦 Announcements
Pandemic heroes stepped up in 2020 – now they’re asking world leaders to do the same - 16.05.25
As world leaders meet in Geneva to negotiate a new UN-brokered agreement on pandemic preparedness, we revisit frontline doctors, community advocates, a youth volunteer and a journalist who lived through the storm of COVID-19. Their voices are just a few among millions that show why this moment matters.
Journalists under attack: Press vests 'turning us into targets' - 16.05.25
Christina Assi, AFP photojournalist injured in October 2023 on the Lebanon-Israel border, speaks out against global silence on violence against journalists: "it's becoming a death sentence for us”. Reuters photojournalist Issam Abdallah pictured next to her in the video was killed in the same attack, reportedly by Israeli tank fire. International law forbids targeting journalists.
Geneva Press Briefing: OCHA, OHCHR, WHO, UNCTAD - 16.05.25
🎦 Situation in Gaza; 🎦 World Health Assembly; 🎦 Announcements
Happening at UN Geneva
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.
