"PROTEST MOVEMENTS"

Briefing on Kazakhstan, a United Nations spokesperson appealed, “to all involved to exercise restraint, to refrain from violence, and use peaceful means to address the situation.” UNIFEED

Informal comments to the media by Volker Perthes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan and Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission, on the situation in the Sudan and the activities of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan.

International calls for the restoration of a democratic government in Sudan continued on Friday, as the Human Rights Council met in a special session in Geneva to discuss the recent coup by the Sudanese military against the Transitional Government. UNTV CH

“The facts show a widespread and systematic attacks on a civilian population, amounting to crimes against humanity,” committed by the Myanmar security forces following the February coup, the Head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar Nichols Koumjian said on Friday. UNIFEED

High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet today called on Cuban authorities “to promptly release all those who have been detained for exercising their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, or freedom of opinion and expression.” OHCHR

Colombian Foreign Minister Marta Lucía Ramírez De Rincón said it was “important to have clarity about what happened” in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and “why there are some former members of the Colombian Armed Forces” involved in the operation. UNIFEED

A UN Spokesperson said, the Secretary-General has “expressed concern” over reports of increasing incidents of violent protests in South Africa. Later asked about the protests in Cuba, the Spokesperson said, “we want to make sure the basic rights of people, especially including freedom of expression, freedom of peaceful assembly are upheld.” UNIFEED

Highlighting troubling regularity of targeted attacks in Iraq, top United Nations official briefs Security Council on pre-election landscape.

The head of the UN mission in Iraq (UNAMI), Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said failure to hold credible elections would cause “significant, lasting, widespread anger and disillusionment, which in turn could further destabilize the country at a time where strength and unity are desperately needed.” UNIFEED

Virtual press briefing by Andrew Kirkwood, Acting Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the United Nations in Myanmar.