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Can a Nation Survive Without Land?
For some low-lying States, rising sea levels are no longer a distant threat. As coastlines retreat and habitable territory disappears, the world faces unprecedented questions about sovereignty, nationality, maritime boundaries and statehood. Discover how a changing climate could reshape one of the foundations of the international system.
Sexual violence by Russian forces is widespread against Ukraine prisoners: OHCHR
The UN Human Rights Office issued on Friday a report documenting a shocking pattern of sexual violence amid Russia’s full-scale armed attack on Ukraine.
The second UN Global Risk Report is out
1,300 respondents assess the risks most likely to shape the years ahead, and how prepared the world is to meet them.
UN Geneva Press Briefing: UNHCR, IOM, UNFPA, UNOPS, UN WOMEN, WHO, OHCHR - 18.09.26
🎥 Displacement in Yemen; 🎥 Sexual violence amid Russia’s full-scale armed attack of Ukraine; 🎥 Recovery in Nepal; 🎥 Unaccounted death toll of women in the Ebola epidemic; 🎥 Sudan emergency aid running out; 🎥 New data on global health workforce; 🎥 Announcements.
Happening at UN Geneva
Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
The Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) is the body of independent experts which monitors the implementation of the Convention for the Protection of all Persons against Enforced Disappearance by the States parties.
The Committee and its Secretariat work daily to support victims, civil society organizations, National Human Rights Institutions and States to search for and locate disappeared persons, eradicate, punish and prevent this crime, and repair the damage suffered by the victims.
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the body of 18 Independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by its State parties. It also monitors implementation of two Optional Protocols to the Convention, on involvement of children in armed conflict and on sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
Over the past 30 years, children's lives have been transformed by the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. The Convention on the Rights of the Child has inspired governments to change laws and policies, so more children get the healthcare and nutrition they need. There are better safeguards in place to protect children from violence and exploitation. More children have their voices heard and participate in society. But there is still more work to be done.
