"OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - OHCHR"

Answering questions from journalists via videoconference, the spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rupert Colville, highlighted the need to flag to authorities where elderly people live, “ensuring they're getting the help they need, and they are not simply abandoned.” OHCHR

The UN Human Rights Commissioner is following with concern developments in Hungary, where the government is pressing ahead with a bill to extend what is termed a “state of danger” that was declared earlier this month in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the spokesperson for the Commissioner said on Friday. OHCHR

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called on governments to take urgent action to protect the health and safety of people in detention and other closed facilities, as part of overall efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. UNTV CH

Broad sectoral sanctions should urgently be re-evaluated in countries facing the coronavirus pandemic, in light of their potentially debilitating impact on the health sector and human rights, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Tuesday. UNIFEED

After meeting with Secretary-General António Guterres, Colombian President Iván Duque told reporters that Colombia and the United Nations have finalized negotiations on a framework working agreement for the period 2020 – 2023, based on “three central axes; peace with legality, attention to migrant populations, and the implementation in our country of the Sustainable Development Goals.” UNIFEED

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

The President of the UN Human Rights Council, Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger, announced that the Council will follow measures recommended by the Secretary-General concerning the Covid-19 outbreak and its implications for the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council. UNTV CH

Deadly attacks on civilians in Syria’s Idlib region ‘happening in plain sight, under our watch’, Under-Secretary-General tells Security Council.

People’s basic human rights are “under assault”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday, as he launched a Call For Action’’ aimed at boosting equality and reducing suffering everywhere. UNTV CH