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8 September to 8 October 2025

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Geneva Press Briefing: IOM, UNICEF, OSE - 16.09.25

🎦 Worsening malnutrition and near collapse of all services in Gaza City; 🎦 Overlapping crises in Afghanistan; 🎦 Announcements.

HRC Press conference: Commission of Inquiry (COI) on OPT, including East Jerusalem, and Israel - 16.09.25

Latest report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.

Geneva Press Briefing: WIPO, WMO, OHCHR, UNICEF, UNHCR, WHO - 12.09.25

🎦 DPRK: UN Report Reveals Decade of Heightened Suffering, Repression and Fear; Urgent Support Needed for Afghanistan Earthquake Response; 🎦 Deadly Floods Displace Over 100,000 in South Sudan; 🎦 Update on Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; 🎦 Aid Deliveries in Gaza

Geneva Peace Talks - 10.09.25

At the Geneva Peace Talks, Artist for Peace, Guila Clara Kessous explains the importance of bringing women to table of peace negotiation processes.

Happening at UN Geneva

78th Session, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

(08 Sep - 26 Sep 2025)

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) is the body of 18 independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by its State parties. The Covenant enshrines economic, social and cultural rights such as the rights to adequate food, adequate housing, education, health, social security, water and sanitation, and work.

60th session of the Human Rights Council

Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations - (8 September - 8 October 2025)

The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system, made up of 47 States, which is responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe.  The Council was created by the United Nations General Assembly on 15 March 2006 with the main purpose of addressing situations of human rights violations and making recommendations on them.

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