"POLITICAL REPRESSION"

Briefing by Afghan parliamentarian Naheed Farid, human rights activist and feminist Najiba Sanjar, and Permanent Representative of Norway to the UN Mona Juul, on the situation of women in Afghanistan.

The United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, told the Security Council that over the past year, “sexual violence continued to be committed as a tactic of war, torture, terrorism and political repression,” with a reported increase of "some 800 cases compared with 2020.” UNIFEED

The UN human rights Office (OHCHR) has followed "with increasing concern numerous instances of incitement to violence both online and offline – against journalists and human rights defenders in Pakistan, in particular against women and minorities,” the OHCHR spokesperson said on Tuesday. UNTV CH

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet is “urging the Government of the Russian Federation to carry out -- or fully cooperate with -- a thorough, transparent, independent and impartial investigation” into poisoning of Russian politician Alexey Navalny, the spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office said on Tuesday. UNTV CH

The Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Angelina Jolie, told the Security Council that resolution 2467, adopted last year, “was the first to put survivors and their needs, and their rights, at the centre of all actions,” but added that resolutions, if not implemented, are “words on paper, and just that.” UNIFEED

The United Nations family in Vienna marked United Nations Charter Day on Friday with a virtual and actual gathering at the UN headquarters in the Austrian capital, and a commitment to work to fix the failings COVID-19 has exposed in our systems and social safety nets. UNIS VIENNA / FILE

African youth activists call for greater inclusion of young people in continent’s development, as Security Council takes up ‘silencing the guns by 2020’ initiative at 8629th meeting.

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Kelley A. Eckels-Currie, US Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council, briefs reporters at the Security Council Stakeout on the situation in Cuba

Armed groups, government forces continue wielding sexual violence as tool of war despite progress in ending impunity, Security Council hears in day-long debate at 8234th meeting.