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Ronaldo Costa Filho, Permanent Representative of Brazil, said, “We are confident that the strength of Brazilian institutions will allow us to overcome the violent and lamentable incidents of yesterday and allow us to move forward within the strength of our democratic institutions.” UNIFEED

The United Nations top official for Central Africa said contesting of election results in the region “is very often done peacefully. But in other cases, however, this contestation takes violent forms such as the events that we saw recently in São Tomé and Príncipe and Chad.” UNIFEED

UN human rights chief Volker Türk called on Thursday for an independent investigation into ongoing deadly violence against protesters in Iran, where security forces have used “live ammunition, birdshot and other metal pellets, teargas and batons”, he told the Human Rights Council in Geneva. UNTV CH

Amid a looming food-security crisis linked to Sri Lanka’s cost-of-living crunch, the country’s most vulnerable breadwinners wonder how much longer they can cope, as the Government battles the nation’s worst economic crisis since independence in 1948. UNTV CH

The United Nations Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, said that while “enormous progress” has been achieved in the past 50 years, “equality is not yet within reach, and in many cases not within sight of LGBT communities and populations in the United States.” UNIFEED

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) warned that the situation of civilians in the northeastern Syrian city of Al-Hasakeh is deeply troubling. UNTV CH

As the death toll from the recent unrest in Kazakhstan mounts to 164, the UN Office for Human Rights (OHCHR) today requested “prompt, independent, impartial investigations into these killings and that would include whether unnecessary and disproportionated use of force was made by security forces.” UNTV CH

The Myanmar junta’s brutal response to peaceful protests likely meets the legal threshold for crimes against humanity, an UN-appointed independent rights expert told the Human rights Council today. UNTV CH

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) said it was “deeply concerned by the use of vaguely-defined laws to arbitrarily detain an increasing number of independent journalists, bloggers, online commentators and human rights defenders” in Viet Nam and raised concern over the deteriorating human rights situation ahead of elections in Uganda, according to a spokesperson. UNTV CH

Ability to resolve differences without resorting to violence key to haiti’s socioeconomic future, top official tells Security Council.