Rolando Gómez, Chief of the Press and External Relations at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid press briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives of UN Women, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Aftermath of the Nepal floodsChristine Arab, UN Women Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, speaking from Bangkok, said that an estimated 43,000 women and girls needed…

 Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid press briefing, which was attended by the Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Nepal, spokespersons and representatives of the World Health Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Trade and Development, the World Meteorological Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the International…

 Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid press briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the World Health Organization.Call to adopt rules on autonomous weapon systemsAlessandra Vellucci, for the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), read the just issued renewed call by the United Nations Secretary-General…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) at Geneva, chaired a hybrid press briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the World Meteorological Organization.100-day mark of the Ebola outbreak declaration, progress and challenges in the responseJulien Harneis, Senior Ebola Coordinator the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), speaking from Bunia in the…

 Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired a hybrid press briefing, which was attended by representatives and spokespersons of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.World Humanitarian Day, 19 AugustJens Laerke, for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), reminded that tomorrow, 19 August, would be World Humanitarian Day. At 4 p.m. in the Salle des Pas-Perdus of the Palais des…

 Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired a hybrid press briefing, which was attended by representatives and spokespersons of the World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Fund, the World Food Programme, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.WHO Update on Attacks on Health Care Altaf Musani, Director of Humanitarian and Disaster Management at the World Health Organization (WHO), said WHO's Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care had documented, since 2018, more than 10,400…

Rolando Gómez, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired a hybrid press briefing, which was attended by Nicholas Koumjian, Head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM), as well as representatives and spokespersons of the World Meteorological Organization, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the World Health Organization.Annual Report of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar Nicholas Koumjian, Head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar…

Rolando Gómez, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired a hybrid press briefing, which was attended by spokespersons of the World Health Organization and the World Meteorological Organization.Mr. Gómez, for the United Nations Information Service, read out a statement of the Secretary-General issued yesterday regarding recent events in Ukraine, in which Mr. Guterres strongly condemned “the latest large-scale missile and drone attacks by the armed forces of the Russian Federation on Kyiv and other…

 Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid press briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the International Labour Organization, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.Ebola treatments and vaccinesTarik Jašarević, for the World Health Organization (WHO), said that the Ebola outbreak was still expanding beyond the capacity to respond, and more support was needed to scale up all areas of response. As of 1 August…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) at Geneva, chaired a hybrid press briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the International Organization for Migration, the World Health Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Meteorological Organization.Protecting Victims of Trafficking in Online Scam OperationsAmy Pope, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), said she was briefing in advance of World Trafficking Day on Thursday, regarding people being…