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Geneva Press Briefing: UNECE, ITU, OHCHR, WHO, IFRC, WFP - 26.11.24
🎦 Further Calls for a Ceasefire in Lebanon; 🎦 UN Urges De Facto Authorities in Afghanistan to Protect Media Freedom; 🎦 Relentless Increase in Health Needs Across the Eastern Mediterranean; 🎦 Current Needs in Ukraine; 🎦 Surge in WFP Operations across Sudan;
UNAIDS - Press Conference - 26.11.24
Launch of World AIDS Day Report 2024—Take The Rights Path
Acute hunger stalks one in four people in DR Congo, warn aid agencies - 21.11.24
UN humanitarians warned on Thursday that one in four people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo suffers from “crisis or worse” levels of hunger that affects a staggering 25.6 million people.
#3Minutes | Universal Children's Day - 20.11.24
This 20 November is Universal Children's Day. And it's also the 35th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In 3 minutes, we explain everything you need to know about this important Convention and how the United Nations works to protect children and prioritize their participation.
Happening at UN Geneva
13th United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights
The UN Forum is the world's largest annual gathering on business and human rights with more than 2,000 participants from government, business, community groups and civil society, law firms, investor organisations, UN bodies, national human rights institutions, trade unions, academia and the media.
Over three days, participants take part in 60+ panel discussions on topics that relate to the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (the United Nations "Protect, Respect and Remedy" Framework), as well as current business-related human rights issues.
The Forum is the foremost event to network, share experiences and learn about the latest initiatives to promote corporate respect for human rights.
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by its States parties.
Racial discrimination remains a barrier to the full realization of human rights. Despite progress in some areas, exclusions and restrictions based on race, colour, descent, national or ethnic origin continue to cause conflict, suffering and loss of life. CERD works to take action against the injustice of racial discrimination, and the dangers it represents.
