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“Let’s act for peace”: national contest honours Swiss youth
05 May 2020
More than 2,200 teenagers from 13 Swiss cantons developed ideas for a more peaceful world as part of the contest "Let's act for peace," organized by the Eduki Foundation and various partners including the United Nations Office in Geneva.
Interactive plays, sculptures, songs, murals, comic strips... Swiss teenagers put together over 70 projects tackling this year's theme, "Peace, justice and effective…
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Record child displacement figures due to conflict and violence in 2019: UNICEF
05 May 2020
A new UN report finds that some 19 million children were displaced within their own countries due to conflict and violence in 2019, more than in any other year, making them among the most vulnerable to the global spread of COVID-19.
According to the “Lost at Home” report, published on Tuesday by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), there were 12 million new displacements of children…
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REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
05 May 2020
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the virtual briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the International Labour Organization (ILO).
The topics addressed were COVID-19 and the seventy-third World Health Assembly.COVID-19: impact on Africa
Elisabeth Byrs, for the World Food Programme…
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ITU virtual Press Conference
05 May 2020
Press Conference Announcement
A conversation with ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao in times of digital transformationHoulin Zhao, ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Director, ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) Mario Maniewicz, Director, ITU Radiocommunication Bureau (BR) Dr Reinhard Scholl, Deputy Director, ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB)
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UN health agency hails 7.4 billion Euro pledge for COVID-19 treatments
04 May 2020
World leaders on Monday pledged 7.4 billion Euros to support research and development for medicines to fight COVID-19 which the top UN health official has hailed as “a powerful and inspiring demonstration of global solidarity”.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was updating journalists about the outcome of the funding conference for the recently launched ACT Accelerator to speed up production of…
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Press freedom critical to countering COVID-19 ‘pandemic of misinformation’: UN chief
04 May 2020
Journalists are key to countering the “dangerous outbreak of misinformation” accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Secretary-General said on Monday during a virtual dialogue on promoting press freedom amid the global crisis.
António Guterres upheld the importance of impartial news media at a time when harmful health advice, hate speech and wild conspiracy theories are…
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None of us is safe until we all are, says UN chief at EU push to end COVID-19 pandemic
04 May 2020
The “most massive public health effort in history” is needed to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN chief said on Monday, addressing a European Union pledging conference in Brussels.
In a strongly-worded personal message, UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed donor countries’ contributions to a more than $8 billion fund, to speed up the production of diagnostics…
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COMMITTEE ON ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES VIRTUALLY OPENS EIGHTEENTH SESSION
04 May 2020
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The Committee on Enforced Disappearances opened its eighteenth session today in an online meeting, hearing from the Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Committee’s Chairperson, as well as the mother of a victim of enforced disappearance.
Ibrahim Salama, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that today’s opening was significant. It was the first time in the history of treaty bodies that a Committee held a…
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COVID-19 pandemic exposes global ‘frailties and inequalities’: UN deputy chief
04 May 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic which has swept across the developed and developing world is “exposing the frailties and inequalities of our societies,” according to the UN Deputy Secretary-General.
Speaking to UN News, Amina Mohammed said that the global crisis unleashed by the virus could and should kickstart efforts to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, the 17 globally agreed targets…
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Sudan bans female genital mutilation, UNICEF vows to help support new law
03 May 2020
The United Nations Childen’s Fund (UNICEF) welcomed the landmark move by Sudan’s transitional government this week to criminalize female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), with a three-year jail sentence for offenders.
“This practice is not only a violation of every girl child’s rights, it is harmful and has serious consequences for a girl’s physical and mental health,” said Abdullah…
