"LAND RIGHTS"

Peaceful presidential elections in Colombia, Truth Commission’s compelling final report provide ‘good reasons for optimism’, Special Representative tells Security Council.

UN Human Rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani spoke about the harsh sentencing of human rights and land rights defenders convicted of spreading anti-State propaganda in Viet Nam. UNTV CH

Briefing reporters during the virtual launch of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO’s) Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems Report, the FAO’s Indigenous People’s Unit Chief, Yon Fernández de Larrinoa, said, “indigenous peoples food systems are disappearing at an alarming rate, resulting from displacement, violence, climate change, extractive industries, and intensive agricultural livestock,” and “unless new policies are put in place to support them, they will be a major loss for humankind in the next years.” UNIFEED

A new report by UN-Habitat published on Tuesday demonstrated how cities can reduce the impact of future pandemics and become more equitable, healthy and environmentally friendly. UNTV CH

At the opening of the Global Human Rights Update in Geneva, Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said "a fast-moving and global health crisis has collided with many slower, and more entrenched, political, social and economic crises around the world." UNTV CH

Land reform policy practitioners meeting in South Sudan’s capital Juba have launched recommendations calling for women’s right to own land, while asking that those recommendations be disseminated and incorporated into a larger draft National Land Policy. UNMISS

World-renowned violinist and United Nations Messenger of Peace, Midori, travelled to Viet Nam to meet with and perform for villagers in a remote and poverty-stricken community to raise awareness of the challenges faced by rural women. IFAD

South Sudanese refugees met with the parties involved in a newly initialed peace deal in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, aiming to ensure that refugees play a role in the revitalized peace effort to end South Sudan’s devastating civil war. UNHCR

The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz expressed concern over the discrimination and marginalisation of indigenous peoples in Guatemala, referring to extreme poverty, malnutrition, forced evictions and criminal prosecutions. OHCHR

The Special Representative of the African Union - United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said “it is imperative that concerted efforts be exerted towards mobilization of financial resources to consolidate and sustain the prevailing peace and stability in the region.” UNIFEED