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COVID variants ‘winning the race against vaccines’ warns WHO chief
07 July 2021
Variants like Delta are “currently winning the race against vaccines” said the World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday, pinning the blame squarely on a lack of equitable vaccine production and distribution.
During his biweekly conference in Geneva, he added that passing the four millionth recorded death worldwide from COVID-19 was a “tragic milestone”…
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UN condemns ‘abhorrent’ assassination of Haiti President Jovenel Moïse
07 July 2021
Perpetrators behind the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse must be brought to justice, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned the incident in the strongest terms, according to a statement issued by his Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric.
An ‘abhorrent act’
“The Secretary-General calls on all Haitians to preserve the…
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AFTERNOON - Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar Tells Human Rights Council that the International Community is Failing the People of Myanmar
07 July 2021
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The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with Tom Andrews, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, who said that the people of Myanmar were working to save their country, but desperately needed the support of the international community before it was too late. At the moment, the international community was failing the people of Myanmar.
The Special Rapporteur said that in the five months since the Government of…
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UNICEF calls for action to reverse ‘spiraling protection crisis’ for children in West and Central Africa
07 July 2021
Action must be taken now to halt alarming attacks against children and abductions - including of students - in parts of West and Central Africa, the head of the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said in a statement on Wednesday.
Henrietta Fore, the agency’s Executive Director, said these incidents appear to be increasing in frequency, raising fears for the…
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MORNING - Human Rights Council Holds Quadrennial Panel Discussion on Promoting Human Rights Through Sport and the Olympic Ideal
07 July 2021
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Council Concludes Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner on her Oral Update on Myanmar, Hears Presentation of Report on the Ninth Session of the Forum of Business and Human Rights
The Human Rights Council this morning held its quadrennial panel discussion on promoting human rights through sport and the Olympic ideal. It also concluded its interactive dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on her oral update on Myanmar, and heard the presentation of a report by the…
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Myanmar: From political crisis, to ‘multi-dimensional human rights catastrophe’ – Bachelet
06 July 2021
What began as a coup by the Myanmar military has ‘rapidly morphed’ into an all-out attack against the civilian population that has become increasingly widespread and systematic, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned on Tuesday.
Speaking at the 47th session of the Human Rights Council, Michelle Bachelet reiterated that the situation in the country has evolved…
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UN appeals for resupply of aid and fuel in Tigray region
06 July 2021
Humanitarian operations have been gradually resuming in the war-ravaged Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, but resupply of aid and fuel for civilians caught up in the fighting is urgently needed, the United Nations said on Tuesday, citing information from its emergency relief agency, OCHA.
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric reported that 23 displacement sites in the regional capital, Mekelle, did…
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Sustainable development report shows devastating impact of COVID, ahead of ‘critical’ new phase
06 July 2021
The world was not on track to meet the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) before COVID-19 struck, and now the challenge has been magnified many times over, according to a new flagship UN report that indicates countries must take ‘critical’ steps on the road out of the pandemic, during the next 18 months.
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021, launched…
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Equitable distribution of vaccines, equipment only way out of pandemic: WHO chief
06 July 2021
Equitable distribution of equipment and medicines to fight COVID-19 is the only way out of the global crisis, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, in remarks to a meeting of the advisory group making the case for investing in these tools.
Briefing the ACT Accelerator Facilitation Council, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that…
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AFTERNOON - Establishing a Mechanism on the Missing in Syria is a Priority, Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic Tells Human Rights Council
06 July 2021
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The Situation in Myanmar Has Escalated to a Multi-dimensional Human Rights Catastrophe, High Commissioner Warns Human Rights Council
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic and started an interactive dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on her oral update on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.
Paulo Pinheiro, Chair of the…
