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COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and Myocarditis: benefits outweigh the risks, says WHO committee
09 July 2021
After receiving reports of heart inflammation cases due to myocarditis and pericarditis following vaccination with COVID-19 Pfizer and Moderna shots, World Health Organization (WHO) experts on Friday said that the benefits of the vaccines still outweigh the risks in reducing hospitalizations and deaths due to infection.
Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle…
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Secretary-General welcomes Ethiopia’s pledge to allow humanitarian access to Tigray
09 July 2021
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed Ethiopia’s commitment to ensuring aid workers can access the war-ravaged Tigray region, his Spokesperson said in a statement on Friday.
The development comes a day after Mr. Guterres and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed discussed the extremely concerning humanitarian situation in the northern province.
Eight months of…
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Syria: UN chief welcomes Security Council extension of vital cross-border aid operation
09 July 2021
The UN chief has welcomed a decision on Friday by the Security Council to extend the UN cross-border aid operation in northwest Syria for another 12 months, providing a lifeline for more than 3.4 million people in need, including some one million children.
Secretary-General António Guterres said via his Spokesperson, that the authorization to continue using the Bab al-Hawa…
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A third of Haiti’s children in urgent need of emergency aid: UNICEF
09 July 2021
Nearly a third of all children in Haiti – numbering around 1.5 million - are in urgent need of emergency relief due to rising violence, insufficient access to clean water, health and nutrition, said the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF on Friday.
Amid a political and economic crisis heightened by the assassination of Haiti’s beleaguered president on Wednesday, young people have also been suffering…
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AFTERNOON - Israeli Settlements Amount to a War Crime, Special Rapporteur Tells Human Rights Council
09 July 2021
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with Michael Lynk, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, who said that in his report, he examined whether the Israeli settlements were in violation of the absolute prohibition against “settler implantation” in the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. He concluded that the Israeli settlements did amount to a war crime.
Mr. Lynk regretted the fact that Israel had taken no steps to…
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UN chief urges G20 finance chiefs to support global COVID vaccine plan, climate finance
09 July 2021
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday urged the world’s largest economies to spearhead a global COVID-19 vaccination plan, expand debt relief to developing countries battered by the pandemic, and step up funding for climate action.
“To restore trust in multilateralism, we need to deliver on vaccines, economic recovery and climate finance”, he said in a video…
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MIDDAY - Human Rights Council Holds Separate Interactive Dialogues on the Situation of Human Rights in Ukraine and in the Central African Republic
09 July 2021
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council in a midday meeting held an interactive dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Ukraine, followed by an interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Central African Republic.
Nada Al-Nashif, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that the
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ thematic report on “arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment in the context…
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REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE
09 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 Human Rights Council, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization and the World Food Programme.
Human Rights Council update
Rolando Gomez, for the Human Rights Council, said that that morning, the Council had observed a moment of silence for the sudden passing of the President of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse. The Council…
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MORNING - Human Rights Council Adopts Universal Periodic Review Outcomes of Georgia, Sao Tome and Principe, and Nauru
09 July 2021
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this morning adopted the Universal Periodic Review outcomes of Georgia, Sao Tome and Principe, and Nauru.
At the beginning of the meeting, Justin Viard, Permanent Representative of Haiti to the United Nations Office at Geneva, took the floor to deplore the events of 7 July, when several heavily armed individuals had assassinated the President of Haiti in his residence. This was a serious attack on the right to life and the dignity of the Haitian people. The police and the armed forces were hard at…
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UN ready to promote ‘win-win solution’ for Blue Nile dam project
08 July 2021
The United Nations stands ready to support Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan in efforts to resolve their decade-long disagreement over the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), senior officials told the Security Council on Thursday.
UN Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, reported that recent negotiations under the African Union (AU) have yielded little progress.
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