Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
The human toll of Myanmar’s human rights crisis is mounting as armed conflict escalates and spreads, UN High Commissioner Volker Türk warned on Friday as he repeated a call for the situation in Myanmar as a whole to be referred to the International Criminal Court.
Press Conferences | HRC , WMO , IPU , UNHCR , WHO , OCHA
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HRC update, WMO extreme heat roundup, IPU Assembly, TOPICS: UNHCR warns on Sudanese refugee arrivals, Mozambique displacement, WHO guidance on hearing care.
Press Conferences | HRC
Press conference to launch the Experts' latest report on the human rights situation in Nicaragua
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Thursday called for an end to the “carnage” in Gaza as he presented his Office’s report on the Occupied Palestinian Territory to the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Edited News , Conferences | HRC , OHCHR
UN Rights Chief calls for an end to “carnage in Gaza”
Edited News | OCHA , WHO
UN humanitarians deplore unacceptable conditions for medical evacuations and humanitarian aid delivery in Gaza
Press Conferences
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons of the World Health Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the International Telecommunication Union, the United Nations...
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the Conference on Disarmament.
Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
This is a time of seismic global shocks, with conflicts battering the lives of millions of civilians and carving ever deeper fault-lines across and between nations, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned on Monday at the opening of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Edited News , Conferences | HRC , OHCHR , UNITED NATIONS
In conflicts across the world, nations and their governments are ignoring “the rule of law and the rules of war” enshrined in the Geneva Conventions and the UN Charter, an alarming development highlighted by United Nations chief António Guterres at the opening of the Human Rights Council in Geneva...