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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.
The…
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Top UN Haiti envoy hails commitment to hold new elections
08 July 2021
The UN Special Representative for Haiti on Thursday, acknowledged the legitimacy of Prime Minister Claude Joseph to lead the Caribbean nation, following the “cowardly” assassination of President Jovenel Moïse on Wednesday, and welcomed his government’s commitment to hold national elections later this year.
Helen La Lime, who also heads the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) said the prime minister,…
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Time running out for countries on climate crisis front line
08 July 2021
The world’s running out of time to limit global temperature rise to below two degrees Celsius, a matter of life or death for climate vulnerable countries on the front line of the crisis, the UN Secretary General reiterated on Thursday.
Speaking to the first Climate Vulnerable Finance Summit of 48 nations systemically exposed to climate related disasters, António Guterres said they needed reassurance…
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Child mental health crisis ‘magnified’ by COVID, warns UN chief
08 July 2021
Half of the world’s children experience violence on and offline in some form every year, with “devastating and life-long consequences” for their mental health, the UN chief warned a symposium on the issue on Thursday.
In a video address to an event organized within the on-going High-Level Political Forum (HLPF), on mental health and wellbeing, he said that mental health services have long…
