Search Results  for : "CHILE"

A Venezuelan music teacher and choir director leads a group composed of mostly refugees and migrants from Venezuela, but including Chileans and others from Colombia, Peru and Cuba. IOM

The General Assembly elected 14 Member States to serve a three-year term in the Human Rights Council. UNIFEED

Venezuelan migrants defy deadly desert conditions on their journey to Chile, moving along one of the most extensive migration routes in the world, said the International Organization for Migration. IOM

After four years as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet held her final press conference in Geneva and said, “the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ever-increasing effects of climate change, and the reverberating shocks of the food, fuel and finance crisis resulting from the war against Ukraine have been the three major issues” of her mandate. OHCHR

UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said, “the multiple crises we are experiencing are a wake-up call for the much needed often absent solidarity, adding that to turn crises into an opportunity, “the key lies in the required transitions in renewable energy, food systems and digital connectivity – and in investment in human capital, financing the opportunities.” UNIFEED

Global fisheries and aquaculture production is at a record high and the sector will play an increasingly important role in providing food and nutrition in the future, according to a new report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). FAO

On Tuesday, WFP said that ever greater numbers of vulnerable people are risking their lives on dangerous migration routes in Latin America, forced to move by the global food security crisis that’s been made worse by spiraling inflation linked to the war in Ukraine. UNTV CH

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announced that she will not be seeking a second term at the 50th session of the Human Rights Council. UNTV CH

Ahead of the World Chagas Day, Unitaid says that it remains committed to improving access to testing and treatment to reduce mother-to-child transmission of Chagas. UNITAID

At a press conference on Saturday concluding a 3-day visit to Niger, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, discussed the myriad of significant human rights challenges that the people of Niger have been grappling with, directly with the authorities, civil society, and other actors. OHCHR