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Addressing the participants of a high-level event to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the UN LGBTI Core Group, Hanke Bruins Slot, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs said, “in far too many places around the world we are seeing a targeted hate campaign against LGBTIQ people simply for being who they are and loving who they love.” UNIFEED

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

A number of UN agencies, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNAIDS have said “they are appalled that the draconian and discriminatory anti-gay bill is now passed into law in Uganda,” a UN spokesperson told reporters in New York. UNIFEED

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the adoption in Uganda of draconian new legislation targeting lesbian, gay and bisexual people was devastating and deeply disturbing, and called on President Yoweri Museveni not to promulgate it into law. OHCHR

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “at its essence, Holocaust remembrance is a call to be on constant alert. Never to be silent in the face of hate. Never tolerant of intolerance. Never indifferent to the suffering of others.” UNIFEED

Briefing journalists today in New York, Michael Fakhri, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, said, “in the last two years, there's been a global consensus that everyone must transform their system, and the food crisis is only getting worse.” UNIFEED

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

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

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