Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section 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 CITES Secretariat, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the World Food Programme (WFP). Human Rights Council update Rolando Gomez, for the Human Rights Council, said the Council would be hearing the statements of 20 States in exercise of the right of reply to interventions made the day before during the general debate on the High Commissioner for…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Human Rights Council, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Health Organization. Human Rights Council Rolando Gomez, for the Human Rights Council (HRC), informed that today the Council was discussing the role of poverty alleviation in promoting and protecting human rights, particularly in the context of COVID-19. At 12 noon, Michelle…

  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 (HRC), the World Food Programme (WFP), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and Unitaid. Human Rights Council update Rolando Gomez, for the Human Rights Council, said that the Council’s forty-sixth session had begun yesterday with opening statements from the President of the General Assembly, the UN Secretary-General and the…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Human Rights Council (HRC), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the International Labour Organization (ILO). Human Rights Council Rolando Gomez, for the Human Rights Council (HRC), informed that the forty-sixth regular session of the Human…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the World Food Programme (WFP), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Pledging conference for Yemen Jens Laerke, for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said that the aid…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the World Food Programme (WFP), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Special session of the Human Rights Council Rhéal LeBlanc, speaking on behalf of the Human Rights Council (HRC), informed that the Human Rights Council was currently holding a special session on the human…

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 and the World Meteorological Organization. La Niña update Clare Nullis, for the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), said that the 2020-2021 La Niña event had passed its peak, but its impacts lingered and land temperatures were expected to be above normal for most parts of the globe in February-April 2021. There was a 70 per cent chance that the tropical Pacific would return to ENSO-neutral…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Situation in Tigray, Ethiopia Jens Laerke, for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said that three months into the conflict in Tigray, the humanitarian…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Libyan Political Dialogue Forum Jean El-Alam, for the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), said that UNSMIL was encouraged by high number of nominations for the Presidency Council and welcomed the diversity of the candidate pool, both…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Humanitarian situation in northwest Syria Jens Laerke, for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said that heavy rainfall and floods in north-west Syria in recent weeks had had a…