"PRESS FREEDOM"

La Porte-Parole du Haut-Commissariat des Droits de l’Homm,e Marta Hurtado, a dit, “Nous sommes gravement préoccupés par la répression croissante des voix critiques au Burundi, suite à la récente détention de cinq défenseurs des droits humains et à l'emprisonnement d'un journaliste.” HCDH

Commenting on the suspension of journalist accounts on Twitter, a UN Spokesperson said, “media voices should not be silenced on a platform that professes to be a place for freedom of speech.” UNIFEED

The Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, said Afghans “didn't expect support in perpetuity from the international community, but nor did they expect to be dropped off a cliff 14 months ago.” UNIFEED

Afghanistan: no other country in the world where women and girls have “so rapidly” been deprived of their fundamental rights “purely because of gender,” UN-appointed expert told Human Rights Council. UNTV CH

Restrictions on fundamental human rights, especially for women, girls exacerbating bleak humanitarian plight in Afghanistan, briefers warn Security Council.

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

Meeting on West Africa, Sahel region, speakers in Security Council express concern over successive coups, call for strengthening state institutions.

Following an Arria Formula meeting of the Security Council on the issue of protection of journalists, Ireland’s Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason said, “journalists are civilians, journalists are key to sustainable peace and to upholding democracy, and journalists should never, ever, ever, be the targets.” UNIFEED

Informal comments to the media by Geraldine Byrne Nason, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations, in advance of the Arria formula meeting on the protection of journalists.

Press conference by Abdulla Shahid, the President of the General Assembly, and Antonio Vitorino, the Director-General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Coordinator of the UN Network on Migration, on the inaugural International Migration Review Forum.