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Edited News | IOM , WHO
UN agencies and partners are responding to the disaster unfolding in Libya after extreme rainfall caused devastating flooding and loss of life over the weekend, humanitarians told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday.
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Edited News | HRC
Urgent response needed to increased fighting and plummeting economy in Syria - UN Syria Commission of Inquiry warns
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Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Monday flagged climate change as a “spiralling human rights emergency for many countries”, as he called for decisive action to tackle the global planetary crisis.
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Edited News | HRC
Serious international crimes continue to be inflicted against the people in Myanmar by the country’s military junta and affiliate militias, while armed conflict has intensified substantially, top UN-appointed independent rights experts maintained at the UN Human Rights Council on Monday.
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Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Monday called for a focus on development and human rights to help us chart our way out of multiple and inter-locking crises.
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Edited News | UNICEF , UNITED NATIONS
Amid record levels of violence against children in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) sounded the alarm on Friday that the country has the world’s highest number of children being raped and killed on a daily basis.
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Edited News , Press Conferences | WMO
Climate change is having a measurable impact on air quality and therefore human health, meaning the two must be tackled together, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday.
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Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
The UN Human Rights Office today highlighted the risks and vulnerabilities faced by an unprecedented number of migrants and refugees who are crossing the Darien Gap – the dense tropical jungle that separates Colombia and Panama – on their journey towards North America.
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Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
The UN Human Rights Chief today voiced concern at the continued intimidation and harassment of human rights advocates and civil society leaders through legal proceedings in Bangladesh, including Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus, known for his work on poverty alleviation through Grameen Bank, and two...
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Edited News | OHCHR
“We are extremely alarmed that at least 43 people were killed, including a policeman, and 56 injured during demonstrations on Wednesday in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo," OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told reporters on Friday.