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Countries urged to reopen classrooms, assess pandemic-related learning loss
13 July 2021
Around one in three countries are not yet implementing remedial programmes to help students catch up on their learning, in the wake of school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two UN agencies and partners said in a report issued on Tuesday.
The finding is among the results of a survey conducted by the UN educational and cultural agency, UNESCO; the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF;…
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Committee against Torture considers reports on follow-up to concluding observations, individual communications, and reprisals
13 July 2021
Meeting Summaries
The Committee against Torture this afternoon discussed follow-up to concluding observations, individual communications, and reprisals under the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov, Ad Interim Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations under article 19 of the Convention, presenting his report, said that follow-up reports were received from Mauritania, Canada, Iraq, Mexico, Paraguay, Cameroon, Germany, Greece, the United Kingdom,…
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REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE
13 July 2021
Bi-Weekly Briefing
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, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
UNHCR warns of imminent humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan
Babar Baloch, for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said that a humanitarian crisis was looming in Afghanistan as the escalating…
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UN appeals for faster passage for aid convoys to Ethiopia’s Tigray
13 July 2021
UN humanitarians appealed on Tuesday for far quicker access to Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, after the first aid trucks in days to reach the local capital, Mekelle, encountered multiple checks delaying their arrival.
Unobstructed aid deliveries are crucial in the northern Ethiopian region where the World Food Programme (WFP) says that four million people need emergency food assistance,…
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Virtual WHO Press Conference
13 July 2021
Press Conference Announcement
Speakers:
Katherine O'Brien, Director of IVB Department, WHO
Dr Jan Grevendonk, Technical Officer for Immunization Information at WHO
Ephrem Lemango, Principal Adviser and Chief of Immunization at UNICEF
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New official data on childhood vaccination from WHO and UNICEF
Embargo until 1am CEST July 15
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MORNING - Human Rights Council Adopts Three Resolutions on Human Rights in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia, Human Rights in the Context of HIV and AIDS, and on Violence against Women and Girls with Disabilities
13 July 2021
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this morning adopted three resolutions on human rights in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, human rights in the context of HIV and AIDS, and on violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to all forms of violence against women and girls with disabilities.
Concerning the situation of human rights in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the Council expressed grave concern at the reports of serious human…
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New Permanent Representative of Lao People’s Democratic Republic Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
13 July 2021
Presentation of Credentials
Latsamy Keomany, the new Permanent Representative of Lao People’s Democratic Republic to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Keomany served as Director-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Lao People’s Democratic…
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‘Tremendously off track’ to meet 2030 SDGs: UN chief
12 July 2021
Between 720 and 811 million people in the world faced hunger in 2020 – some 161 million more than for 2019 – the UN Secretary-General said on Monday; “new, tragic data”, which indicates the world is “tremendously off track” to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
“High costs, coupled with persistently high levels of poverty and income inequality, continue to keep healthy diets out…
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AFTERNOON - Human Rights Council Adopts 13 Resolutions: Renews Mandate on Eritrea and Calls for the Removal of Unjustified Obstacles Restricting the Export of COVID-19 Vaccines
12 July 2021
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The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted 13 resolutions in which it, among other actions, renewed the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea for a further period of one year.
Concerning the enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human rights, the Council called upon States and other relevant stakeholders to remove unjustified obstacles restricting the export of COVID-19 vaccines, which result in an…
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COVID-19 booster strategy as Delta multiplies, highlights ‘disappointing inequality’: WHO
12 July 2021
The COVID-19 Delta variant is travelling around the world at a “scorching pace” driving a new spike in cases and deaths, but it’s exposing a ‘hugely uneven and inequitable’ global gap in vaccine supply, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
“We’re in the midst of a growing two-track pandemic where the haves and have-nots within and between…
