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Launching the report on human rights in Myanmar, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said, “We are faced here with a system of ruthless repression designed to coerce and subjugate its people and to erode a society so that the narrow interests of a kleptocratic elite are preserved.” UNTV CH

In-person press briefing by Ambassador Taher El-Sonni, Permanent Representative of the State of Libya to the United Nations on the situation of floods in Libya, as a result of Cyclone Daniel , 9-11 September, 2023. The Press Conference is held in both English and Arabic.

Marking the six years since the forced mass displacement of Rohingya people and other communities from Myanmar’s Rakhine State, spokesperson Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez noted that “Rohingya people remain displaced domestically and abroad, including around one million Rohingya in Bangladesh.” UNIFEED

As sweltering conditions continue to grip large parts of Europe, temperatures have “reached new heights” in Switzerland, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Tuesday. UNTV CH

The fabric of society in southwest Pacific and beyond is “unravelling” because of the effects of our warming climate and weather-related disasters, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Friday. UNTV CH

Against the odds of displacement, fires burning down learning centres, and Cyclone Mocha’s wrath, classrooms in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh are filling up with children excited about the first day of school. UNICEF

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) today said that Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar are facing hunger after the latest ration cuts, informed a UN spokesperson. UNIFEED / FILE

Global sea surface temperatures reached a record high in May, June and July – and the warming El Niño weather pattern is only just getting started - experts at the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday. UNTV CH

Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said, “It is almost impossible to imagine that the people of Myanmar can endure more suffering. Yet the country continues its deadly freefall into even deeper violence and heartbreak.” UNTV CH

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Monday delivered a stark warning about the risk climate change poses to people’s right to food. He said, “Our environment is burning. Melting. Flooding. Depleting. Drying. Dying.” UNTV CH