"CRIME"

“We are deeply alarmed by the imminent execution in the Islamic Republic of Iran of Swedish-Iranian doctor and academic Ahmedreza Djalali and urgently call on the Iranian authorities to halt the execution and revoke his death sentence,” said Throssell, OHCHR's Spokesperson. UNTV CH

Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said at the Human Rights Council’s special session on Ukraine that her Office continues to verify allegations of violations of international human rights law and of international humanitarian law, many of which may amount to war crimes. UNTV CH

A special session of the UN Human Rights Council met on Thursday in Geneva, prompted by increasing concern over atrocities against civilians linked to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. UNTV CH

War in Ukraine presenting ‘child protection, child rights crisis’, senior United Nations official tells Security Council.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday he was deeply concerned about the risk of hunger becoming widespread because of the impact of the war in Ukraine on global food security. UNIS VIENNA

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

At the bi-weekly press briefing on Tuesday, Matilda Bogner, Head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, briefed journalists on the violations perpetrated in the past two months in Ukraine. UNTV CH

Informing the Security Council that, so far, nearly 500 civilians have been evacuated from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol and the Azovstal plant, the United Nations' Secretary-General, António Guterres, said that "it is good to know that even in these times of hyper-communications, silent diplomacy is still possible and is sometimes the only effective way to produce results." UNIFEED

Third humanitarian convoy under way to evacuate civilians from besieged Ukraine city, Secretary-General tells Security Council.

On World Press Freedom Day, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet made the following address at the annual award by the Freedom Cartoonist Foundation. OHCHR