"CRIMINAL JUSTICE"

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet stressed the urgent need for a moratorium on the sale and use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems that pose a serious risk to human rights until adequate safeguards are put in place. She also called for AI applications that cannot be used in compliance with international human rights law to be banned. UNTV CH

UN Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet urged all countries to “draw upon the great body of international obligations and commitments and to demonstrate much stronger political will to accelerate action for racial justice and equality.” UNTV CH

Second United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States on countering and preventing terrorism in the age of transformative technologies with the overall theme of “Countering and Preventing Terrorism in the Age of Transformative Technologies: Addressing the Challenges of the New Decade.”

The worldwide mobilization of people calling for racial justice has forced a long-delayed reckoning with racism and shifted debates towards a focus on the systemic nature of racism and the institutions that perpetrate it, according to a new UN Human Rights Office’s report. UNTV CH

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet issued an urgent call for States to adopt a “transformative agenda” to uproot systemic racism, as she published a report casting a spotlight on the litany of violations of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights suffered by people of African descent – on a daily basis and across different States and jurisdictions. OHCHR

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a statement on the delivery by the International Residual Mechanism for the Criminal Tribunals of the appeals judgment in the case against Ratko Mladić, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb armed forces, calling “on all those in position of power to refrain from denying the seriousness of the crimes that have been adjudicated.” UNIFEED / FILE

In his address to the Security Council on Thursday, the top UN official in Sudan said he was “deeply disturbed by continued reports of human rights violations against women and girls including social media campaigns instigating violence.” UNIFEED

Economic and Social Council sets theme of upcoming humanitarian affairs segment as it adopts 3 decisions, without vote.

Economic and Social Council sets theme of upcoming humanitarian affairs segment as it adopts 3 decisions, without vote.

All around the world, women and girls are not in control over their bodies and their lives, states the 2021 flagship report “State of World Population” launched today by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). UNTV CH