"FREEDOM"

Lebanon’s Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Abdallah Bou Habib, visited UNIFIL’s area of operations in south Lebanon to see the work the mission’s more than 11,000 military and civilian peacekeepers carry out alongside the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). UNIFIL

UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan Ramiz Alakbarov, told the Security Council that nearly 800 people have been confirmed killed and more than 1,400 injured from the deadly earthquake that struck Paktika province. He added, “search and rescue operations remain ongoing and it is expected that the number of casualties will further increase over the coming days, along with the number of affected communities.” UNIFEED

Amid plummeting humanitarian conditions in Afghanistan, women, girls ‘are being written out of society’ by de facto authorities, briefers warn Security Council.

A group of United Nationss officers from a variety of expert backgrounds visited Sool and Sanaag, in Somaliland, to assess the human rights situation in the two regions, after a pause of a few years due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic. UNSOM

Somalia’s successful presidential elections present renewed chances to collaborate with Government, Chair of 751 Committee tells Security Council.

Window of opportunity for South Sudan meeting critical benchmarks closing, mission head tells Security Council, calling peace agreement vital.

The informal high-level meeting contributes to spearheading political support to develop strategies to identify, address and counter hate speech at the national and global levels, taking into account, as appropriate, the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech.

In an oral update to the Human Rights Council, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet said, “In the past three months, the human rights situation in Nicaragua has continued to decline,” adding, “My Office continues to report arbitrary detentions where detainees face appalling conditions, hundreds of civil society organisations being stripped of their legal status, and that fleeing the crisis, Nicaraguans continue to leave the country in unprecedented numbers.” UNTV-CH

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said, “what we are witnessing today in Afghanistan is the institutionalized, systematic oppression of women.” UNTV CH

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said that the human rights situation in Myanmar has continued to rapidly decline, “what we are witnessing today is the systematic and widespread use of tactics against civilians in respect of which there are reasonable grounds to believe the commission of crimes against humanity and war crime.” UNTV CH