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AFTERNOON - Special Rapporteur Tells Human Rights Council How Governments Have Implemented Restrictive Laws and Intense Stigmatising Campaigns to Silence Civic Activism

10 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home AFTERNOON - Special Rapporteur Tells Human Rights Council How Governments Have Implemented Restrictive Laws and Intense Stigmatising Campaigns to Silence Civic Activism 28 June 2024 Meeting Summaries Over 10 Per Cent of Women Globally Are Trapped in a Cycle of Extreme Poverty, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Tells the Council …

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

10 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 28 June 2024 UN Geneva Press Briefing Daniel Johnson, Public Information Officer, United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives from the United Nations Human Rights Council, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the World Health Organization, United Nations Trade and Development…

MORNING - At the Human Rights Council, Volker Türk Calls on States to Overhaul Discriminatory Laws and Practices Enabling Economic Violence against Women

10 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home MORNING - At the Human Rights Council, Volker Türk Calls on States to Overhaul Discriminatory Laws and Practices Enabling Economic Violence against Women 28 June 2024 Meeting Summaries Council Concludes Interactive Dialogue with Working Group on Discrimination against Women and GirlsThe Human Rights Council this…

Going back into ‘hell’: An aid worker’s journey through shattered Gaza

10 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Going back into ‘hell’: An aid worker’s journey through shattered Gaza 28 June 2024 © UNICEF/Eyad El Baba People search for water in Khan Younis city in the southern the Gaza Strip. (file) Over and above the difficulty of actually getting into Gaza, aid teams now face the crushing realization that with a shortage of fuel and dwindling supplies, there is a limit to what they can do to help…

Haitian capital’s crippled health system ‘on the brink’

10 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Haitian capital’s crippled health system ‘on the brink’ 28 June 2024 © UNICEF/Ralph Tedy Erol People flee the neighbourhood of Solino in Port-au-Prince following gang attacks there in May 2024. The health system in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince is “on the brink” and “crippled by escalating violence” according to the UN Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) representative in the…

UN rights chief calls time on ‘economic violence’ against women and girls

10 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home UN rights chief calls time on ‘economic violence’ against women and girls 28 June 2024 UN Women/Ryan Brown Women attend a community meeting in Cameroon. On Friday, at the UN Human Rights Council's (OHCHR) first panel for the annual full-day discussion on women's rights, The UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday told a Human Rights Council panel that it’s time to eliminate laws and…

World getting a ‘failing grade’ on Global Goals report card

10 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home World getting a ‘failing grade’ on Global Goals report card 28 June 2024 UN Photo/Manuel Elías Displays at the United Nations Headquarters in New York illustrate the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With just six years remaining to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global progress is alarmingly insufficient, with a mere 17 per cent of the targets currently on track,…

Top UN official calls for strict compliance with sanctions on DPR Korea

10 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Top UN official calls for strict compliance with sanctions on DPR Korea 28 June 2024 UN Photo/Loey Felipe Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, briefs the Security Council meeting on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Any relationship that any country has with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), including Russia, “must entirely abide” by…

World News in Brief: Burkina Faso, refugees and climate change, Afghan women deserve seat in Doha: CEDAW

10 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Burkina Faso, refugees and climate change, Afghan women deserve seat in Doha: CEDAW 28 June 2024 © UNHCR/Ricardo Ara An area of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, once home to refugee families, that was devastated by unprecedented floods in May 2024. Resources are desperately needed to ramp up aid supplies for Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in West Africa, which is…

AFTERNOON - Human Rights Council Hears that States Need to Expand International Solidarity Measures to Diminish Inequality and Marginalisation, and that the Backlash against Women’s and Girls’ Human Rights Is Intensifying

10 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home AFTERNOON - Human Rights Council Hears that States Need to Expand International Solidarity Measures to Diminish Inequality and Marginalisation, and that the Backlash against Women’s and Girls’ Human Rights Is Intensifying 27 June 2024 Meeting Summaries The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity, and started an interactive…