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Geneva Press Briefing: UN Women, OHCHR, WHO, OCHA - 29.08.25
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3 minutes to understand the treaty to end plastic pollution
From Nairobi to Geneva, the UN is working towards a historic treaty to end plastic pollution. In less than 3 minutes, discover the next steps forward for this important agreement, and how the world is coming together to tackle one of today’s most urgent challenges.
Press Conference: OCHA Tom Fletcher on Famine in Gaza - 22.08.25
"Please read the IPC report cover to cover. The Gaza famine is the world's famine. A famine caused by cruelty, justified by revenge, enabled by indifference, and sustained by complicity. It is a famine that must spur the world to more urgent action, that must shame the world to do better." - Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, briefed the press in Geneva.
World Humanitarian Day: Wreath-laying ceremony honours UN personnel who lost their lives in Baghdad on August 19, 2003
The ceremony also marked the observance of World Humanitarian Day designated by the General Assembly in 2008 to coincide with the date of the bombing in Baghdad. The Day also honours humanitarian aid workers who have been killed or injured in the course of their work. This year, we call for an end to the attacks on humanitarians and civilians and impunity under International Humanitarian Law. We urge those in power to #ActForHumanity.
Happening at UN Geneva
Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) - Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS)
The second session of the 2025 CCW Group of Governmental Experts on emerging technologies in the area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (GGE on LAWS) will take place from 1-5 September (from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m).
The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) is a key international humanitarian law instrument. Its purpose is to ban or restrict the use of specific types of weapons that are considered to cause unnecessary or unjustifiable suffering to combatants or to affect civilians.
11th Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty
The Eleventh Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty will take place from 25 to 29 August 2025 at Centre International de Conférences Genève (CICG) in Geneva. #CSP11
The landmark Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), regulating the international trade in conventional arms – from small arms to battle tanks, combat aircraft and warships – entered into force on 24 December 2014. The United Nations is committed to supporting the full and effective implementation of the ATT.
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