Edited News | UNITED NATIONS
Tsunami Preparedness UNDRR 10 March 2021
Edited News | WMO
UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing: Update on Weather - February WMO 09 February 2021 “Relatively cold February does not negate the long-term warming trend from climate change", says World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Edited News | UNOG , UNITED NATIONS
More than one quarter of members of parliament in the world are now women - Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
Edited News | WHO
With 18 Ebola cases reported, 14 confirmed, and four deaths to date, the West African nation of Guinea is becoming the focus of an urgent public health response involving national health authorities, local communities, the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners. An Ebola vaccine has been...
Edited News | UNHCR , WFP
The World Food Programme (WFP) and the UNHCR, the U.N. Refugee Agency, appealed today for US$266 million to end food ration cuts for over 3 million refugees in East Africa. During the last months, WFP has been forced to implement ration cuts for refugees in Uganda (40%), Kenya (40%), South Sudan...
Edited News | UNOG , UNITED NATIONS
UN independent expert Agnès Callamard today welcomed a report published earlier this week by U.S. authorities that named Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman as the person who gave the go ahead to the operation to kill or capture journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Edited News | UNOG , UNITED NATIONS
Human rights experts: Russia responsible for attempted killing of Navalny, international investigation needed. The findings of an investigation by two independent human rights experts into the poisoning of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny found the Russian state to be responsible for the attempted...
Edited News | UNITED NATIONS
Tens of thousands of civilians arbitrarily detained in Syria remain forcibly disappeared, says UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria
Edited News | UNHCR , IOM
As ongoing clashes push Yemenis into “famine-like conditions” UN agencies call for the protection of civilians.
Edited News | UNITED NATIONS
UNOG Bi-weekly press briefing COVID-19 Oxygen Emergency - UNITAID 23 February 2021