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

Amid ongoing protests across Iran in the wake of the death of a 22-year-old woman, who was arrested for having “improper clothing”, the UN Human Rights office (OHCHR) expressed strong concerns about the violent response by security forces to protests. UNTV CH

People’s rights to privacy is coming under even greater pressure from the use of modern networked digital technologies whose features make them formidable tools for surveillance, control and oppression, a new UN report has warned. UNTV CH

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

Briefing by Paulina Kubiak, Spokesperson for the President of the 76th Session of the General Assembly.

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the United Nations has verified the killing of 5,718 civilians, including 372 children, but the actual numbers are likely significantly higher, the UN Political Affairs chief told the Security Council. UNIFEED

Reports of Russian Federation forces putting Ukrainian civilians in ‘filtration’ camps must be investigated, senior officials tell Security Council.

UN Human Rights Office is “deeply concerned by the court’s decision in Moscow to revoke the license of Novaya Gazeta, a respected national newspaper whose editor-in-chief received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize,” said an OHCHR Spokesperson. OHCHR

Regarding the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) report on China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that “human rights must be respected, and that the Uyghur community needs to be respected and may feel it belongs to the country as a whole without discrimination,” a UN spokesperson told reporters in New York. UNIFEED

The United Nations Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, said that while “enormous progress” has been achieved in the past 50 years, “equality is not yet within reach, and in many cases not within sight of LGBT communities and populations in the United States.” UNIFEED

At the press conference in Geneva, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued findings on Azerbaijan, Benin, Nicaragua, Slovakia, Suriname, the United States of America and Zimbabwe after reviewing the States parties in its latest session. UNTV CH