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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has “expressed deep concern over the death threats directed at the Congolese human rights defender and Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege,” the spokesperson for the High Commissioner told reporters in Geneva on Friday. UNTV CH

The UN Human Rights Office has today launched a report that details how women detained in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are subjected to multiple and serious human rights violations by State security and police officials. UNTV CH

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

Annual commemoration, this time virtually, of the Nelson Mandela International Day and formal recognition of the two 2020 United Nations Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize Laureates.

UN chief António Guterres said that COVID-19 “has been likened to an x-ray, revealing fractures in the fragile skeleton of the societies,” adding that “while we are all floating on the same sea, it’s clear that some are in superyachts while others are clinging to the floating debris.” UNIFEED

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

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

UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) is worried by “conditions in many prisons in the Americas region,” given that the “pre-existing structural problems, such as chronic overcrowding and unhygienic conditions, coupled with the lack of proper access to healthcare have enabled the rapid spread of COVID-19 in many facilities.” OHCHR

Key players reject proposed United States Peace Plan as failing to meet minimum rights of Palestinians, Special Coordinator Nickolay Mladenov tells Security Council.

Secretary-General deplores reversals in disarmament efforts, as General Assembly commemorates International Day for Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.