Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the virtual briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the World Food Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the World Health Organization. Typhoon Odette Brenda Barton, World Food Programme (WFP) Philippines Country Director, said that, notwithstanding its relatively low death toll, Typhoon Odette (known internationally as Rai), had been devastating. It had made landfall nine times…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the virtual briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Refugee Agency and the World Health Organization. Pakistan issues smartcards to registered Afghan refugees Babar Baloch, for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said that UNHCR welcomed the conclusion of the Government of Pakistan’s country-wide campaign to verify and update the data of some 1.4 million registered Afghan refugees and to issue them with smart identity cards. The data of 1.25…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the virtual briefing, attended by the spokespersons of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Human rights situation on the Poland-Belarus border Elizabeth Throssell, for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said that an OHCHR team had visited Poland from 29 November to 3 December but had not been granted access to the…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, the World Health Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food Programme and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Human Rights Council Alessandra Vellucci, speaking on behalf of the Human Rights Council, said the Council started…

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 United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Meteorological Organization, the World Food Programme and the Human Rights Council. Human Rights Council update Rolando Gomez, for the Human Rights Council, said that the Council had held a short meeting that morning on the human rights situation in Afghanistan, at which the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Permanent…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, the Human Rights Council, the UN Refugee Agency, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the UN Road Safety Fund, the World Health Organization and the UN Conference on Trade and Development. Human Rights Day Alessandra Vellucci, speaking for the United Nations Information Service, said the United Nations Secretary General had issued a video statement on Human Rights…

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 Food Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Food security in the Sahel and West Africa Ollo Sib, Senior Research, Assessment and Monitoring Officer for West and Central Africa Region, World Food…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Situation in Afghanistan Babar Baloch, for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said there was a heart-breaking and desperate situation in Afghanistan, and the humanitarian crisis was not going away, it was increasing and multiplying in its scale. UNHCR was appealing for much more support amid…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Meteorological Organization, and the World Health Organization. Killings of displaced people by armed groups in eastern DRC Boris Cheshirkov, for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), stated that the UNHCR was appalled by a series of deadly…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Unitaid, the United Nations Development Programme, the International Labour Organization, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, and the International Bureau of Education. Hunger in northern Ethiopia Tomson Phiri, for the World Food Programme (WFP), stated that the number of people in need of humanitarian food assistance across northern…