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Opening the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet said “broad participation by people – including young people – and institutions that are transparent and accountable, can advance social harmony, and economic sustainability and innovation.” UNTV CH

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “We're concerned about the number of cases with no clear epidemiological link such as travel history to China or contact with a confirmed case.” WHO

“There is no military solution for the Syrian crisis,” said the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and called for an end to “this man-made humanitarian nightmare for the long-suffering Syrian people.” UNIFEED

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said a humanitarian disaster is unfolding in Burkina Faso, one of the world’s poorest countries, as a rise in attacks sends civilians fleeing the northern regions nearing Mali and Niger. UNHCR

Deadly attacks on villages in Burkina Faso have forced 150,000 people to flee in the last three weeks alone, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Friday, warning of a displacement emergency in the wider Sahel region. UNTV CH

Families fleeing violence in north-west Syria have resorted to burning their clothes to protect themselves against freezing winter temperatures, UN humanitarians said on Friday, while also warning of a potential “bloodbath” unless a ceasefire is agreed. UNTV CH

Speaking at the General Assembly today (20 Feb), Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said the “lack of adequate response to the spiralling level of the violations and impunity for these violations” in the occupied parts of his country resulted in a “precedent of a global scope” adding that no country could “feel safe and protected by the UN Charter unless we turn this tide.” UNIFEED

The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that the international community “need to finance simple public health solutions that can help us to contain the outbreak now, but at the same time prepare for any eventualities by investing in the vaccine.” WHO

The UN remains "very alarmed about the safety and protection of over three million civilians in Idlib and its surrounding areas in northwestern Syria,” the United Nations spokesperson told reporters in New York on Thursday, as reports of airstrikes and shelling “continue to take a heavy toll on the civilian population.” UNIFEED

A group of 76 Ethiopian refugees have voluntarily returned home from Kenya’s Kakuma camp on Wednesday (19 Feb). This marks the first major voluntary repatriation program for Ethiopian refugees in the country.UNHCR