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AFTERNOON - Human Rights Council Adopts Universal Periodic Review Outcomes of Oman, Austria, and Rwanda
08 July 2021
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The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted the Universal Periodic Review outcomes of Oman, Austria, and Rwanda.
Speaking on the Universal Periodic Review outcome of Oman were Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United Nations Population Fund, and Venezuela.
The following civil society organizations also took the floor on the Universal Periodic Review outcome of Oman: Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights Association, Centre for…
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Amid COVID job losses, ‘high food prices are hunger’s new best friend’, WFP warns
08 July 2021
Job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic combined with high food prices are making it hard for millions of families to get enough to eat, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Thursday.
WFP estimates that a record 270 million people worldwide are acutely food insecure or at high risk this year, around a 70 per cent jump from 2020.
For WFP, high food prices have two…
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New UN report reveals impact of COVID on human trafficking
08 July 2021
A new study released on Thursday by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) illustrates the devastating impact of COVID-19 on victims and survivors of human trafficking and highlights the increased targeting and exploitation of children during the course of the pandemic.
The study further assesses how frontline organizations responded to the challenges posed and continued to deliver essential…
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MIDDAY - Human Rights Council Adopts Universal Periodic Review Outcomes of Australia, Saint Lucia, and Nepal
08 July 2021
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council in a midday meeting adopted the Universal Periodic Review outcomes of Australia, Saint Lucia, and Nepal.
Speaking on the Universal Periodic Review outcome of Australia were Malawi, Marshall Islands, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, New Zealand, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Singapore, China, Syria, and Tunisia.
The following civil society organizations also took the floor on the Universal Periodic Review outcome of Australia: Save the Children…
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MORNING - Human Rights Council Adopts Universal Periodic Review Outcomes of the Federated States of Micronesia, Lebanon, Mauritania, and Saint Kitts and Nevis
08 July 2021
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The Human Rights Council this morning adopted the Universal Periodic Review outcomes of the Federated States of Micronesia, Lebanon, Mauritania, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Speaking on the Universal Periodic Review outcome of the Federated States of Micronesia were Russian Federation, Tunisia, United Nations Population Fund, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, China, Cuba, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Nepal, and New Zealand.
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COVID death toll passes 4 million: Global Vaccine Plan essential, declares Guterres
08 July 2021
The global death toll due to COVID-19 officially passed four million late on Wednesday, marking yet another “grim milestone” and underlining the urgent need for the world to put a Global Vaccine Plan in place to get the pandemic under control, said the UN chief in a statement.
“Many of us know this loss directly and feel its pain”, said Secretary-General António Guterres. “We…
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DR Congo sees fresh government impetus to fight unrelenting violence in the east
07 July 2021
A new government action plan in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has the potential to reverse the urgent and tragic deterioration in the east of the country, where thousands of human rights abuses are being committed against civilians by armed militants, the senior UN official in the country told the Security Council on Wednesday.
Bintou Keita, the Secretary-General’s…
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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…
