Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the International Bureau of Education of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (IBE-UNESCO), the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and the World Health Organization (WHO). Violence in West Darfur Marta Hurtado, for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), stated that the OHCHR was appalled by the latest resurgence…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Humanitarian response to attacks in northern Mozambique Babar Baloch, for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said that the UNHCR continued to work around the clock to assist thousands of people in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. A recent attack by insurgents on…

Michele Zaccheo, Chief of the Radio and Television Section, United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the Office for the Coordination Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Support for…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons of the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Food Programme, and the United Nations Children’s Fund. UNHCR reaches destroyed camps in northern Tigray Boris Cheshirkov, for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), informed that UNHCR had gained access to the Shimelba and Hitsats refugee camps in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region for the first time since November 2020, amid ongoing security concerns. During a joint mission to the…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UNITAID and the World Meteorological Organization. Fire in Cox’s Bazar Angela Wells, for the…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the World Food Programme, the Human Rights Council and the World Intellectual Property Organization. International Day of Forests Mette Wilkie, for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said that the International Day of Forests would be celebrated…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Human Rights Council, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Human Rights Council update Rolando Gomez, for the Human…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Human Rights Council, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and the World Health Organization. Impact of ten years of war on children in Syria Bo Viktor Nylund, Representative of the United Nations…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Human Rights Council (HRC), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Arbitrary killing of nine activists in the Philippines Ravina Shamdasani, for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said that OHCHR was appalled by the apparently arbitrary killing of nine…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria and the Interparliamentary Union. Women in parliament Martin Chungong, Secretary-General of the Interparliamentary Union (IPU), launched this year’s edition of Women in Parliament, the IPU’s…