Press Conferences | WFP
Impact of COVID-19 in Latin America and WFP’s response: Miguel Barreto, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean
Edited News | UNHCR , UNITED NATIONS
Syrian refugees resort to ever more desperate measures to resist pandemic impact. The COVID-19 crisis has put another 200,000 Syrian refugees in need of emergency assistance in the last three months alone, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday, in an appeal for funding to confront new challenges posed by...
Press Conferences | OHCHR , UNHCR , UNOG , UNCTAD , IOM
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the virtual briefing, attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Human Rights Council (HRC), and the United Nations...
Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
Human Rights Council picks up again after COVID suspension, to hold racism debate. After a three month long COVID-19-enforced break, the Human Rights Council resumed its work at UN Geneva on Monday, giving the green light to a rare Urgent Debate on racism, alleged police brutality and violence...
Edited News | UNICEF , OCHA
YEMEN: Severe funding gaps for humanitarian aid as cases of Covid-19 are on the rise
Press Conferences
UNAIDS press conference 12 June 2020
Press Conferences | OHCHR , UNHCR , UNOG , UNCTAD
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the virtual briefing, attended by spokespersons for the World Food Programme, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and the Human Rights Council, the...
Edited News | WFP
Conflict-hit Nigerian families hit by COVID lockdowns on ‘life-support’: WFP . Help and funding are needed urgently for millions of people in Nigeria who have been hit severely by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including conflict-hit communities “on life-support” in the north-east, UN...
Press Conferences | UNHCR , UNOG , WFP , UNCTAD , ILO
Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the virtual briefing, attended by the spokespersons for the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the International Labour Organization (ILO),...