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Geneva Press Briefing: UNICEF, WHO, WIPO - 30.04.24

🎦 UNICEF on the Impact of Six Months of Conflict on Children in Lebanon, and 🎦 WHO's update on the avian influenza A(H5N1) risk assessment, 

UNRWA – Press conference: Philippe Lazzarini - 30.04.24

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini's update the press on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Mine Action at UNDP Ukraine - 29.04.24

"The presence of minesand UXO (unexploded ordnance) in Ukraine as being a billions-of-dollar problem for every country in the world." - Paul Heslop, Programme Manager for Mine Action at UNDP Ukraine

Gaza at ‘most dangerous’ stage amid huge unexploded weapons risk, warns demining expert - 29.04.24

The head of UN peacekeeping and demining reiterated calls on Monday for a ceasefire in Gaza as a first step to returning the war-ravaged enclave to some normality, while mine clearance experts warned that the Strip is now at its “most dangerous period”.

Happening at UN Geneva

46th Session of Universal Periodic Review

Review of Cyprus - Tuesday 30 April 2024

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique mechanism of the Human Rights Council that calls for each UN Member State to undergo a peer review of its human rights records every 4.5 years. The UPR provides each State the opportunity to regularly:

  • Report on the actions it has taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and to overcome challenges to the enjoyment of human rights; and
  • Receive recommendations – informed by multi-stakeholder input and pre-session reports – from UN Member States for continuous improvement.

Committee Against Torture (CAT)

79th Session - 15 April 2024 to 10 May 2024

The Committee Against Torture (CAT) and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment is the body of 10 independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment by its States parties. CAT works to hold States accountable for human rights violations, systematically investigating reports of torture in order to stop and prevent this crime. Over the course of its 79th session, it will examine Austria , Honduras , Azerbaijan , Liechtenstein , North Macedonia and Finland.