"HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS"

Asked about protests in the Islamic Republic of Iran, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said, “We call on security forces to refrain from using unnecessary and disproportionate force and appeal to all to exercise restraint to avoid further escalation.” UNIFEED

Almost seven months to the day since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, UN-appointed independent human rights investigators said that war crimes have indeed been committed in the conflict. UNTV CH

Ahead of the High-Level Week of the General Assembly, the United Nations’ Secretary-General said his message to the world leaders gathering in New York is clear: “Lower the temperature now, don’t flood the world today, don’t drown it tomorrow.” UNIFEED

The head of the UN Human rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Matilda Bogner, said, “We have documented that prisoners of war in the power of the Russian Federation and held by the Russian Federation’s armed forces or by affiliated armed groups have suffered torture and ill-treatment, and in some places of detention lack adequate food, water, healthcare, and sanitation.” UNTV CH

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the United Nations has verified the killing of 5,718 civilians, including 372 children, but the actual numbers are likely significantly higher, the UN Political Affairs chief told the Security Council. UNIFEED

Regarding the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) report on China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that “human rights must be respected, and that the Uyghur community needs to be respected and may feel it belongs to the country as a whole without discrimination,” a UN spokesperson told reporters in New York. UNIFEED

At the press conference in Geneva, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued findings on Azerbaijan, Benin, Nicaragua, Slovakia, Suriname, the United States of America and Zimbabwe after reviewing the States parties in its latest session. UNTV CH

Support for Libya must help break political stalemate, serve to unite, not divide parties, senior official tells Security Council.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Security Council, "The Russian military has turned the territory of the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhzhia power plant, into a war zone. This is a fact,” adding that “Russia should unconditionally stop nuclear blackmail.” UNIFEED

Briefing journalists today in Dhaka at the end of her first official mission to Bangladesh, UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet acknowledged that the country has made remarkable economic and social progress and is aiming to graduate from Least Developed Country status in a few years. OHCHR