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The Special Adviser on the prevention of genocide Alice Wairimu Nderitu reiterated her “grave concern” about the deteriorating security and human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), particularly in Ituri province, a UN spokesperson said. UNIFEED

At a pre-recorded event remembering the victims of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Secretary-General António Guterres said the genocide against the Tutsi “was neither an accident nor unavoidable,” and a generation after the events, “the state of shame endures as we remember the bloodshed 28 years ago.” UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was greatly saddened to learn of the passing of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, describing him as an unwavering voice for the voiceless. UNIFEED

Fifteen years after the adoption of the responsibility to protect during the 2005 World Summit, a top UN official said, “despite progress, there is also a growing gap between the promise and the actual protection of vulnerable populations around the world.” UNIFEED

A “disturbing groundswell” of hate-based violence and intolerance aimed at religious devotees across all faiths, must be countered soon before it’s too late, the United Nations Secretary-General said on Monday, noting murderous attacks in just the past few days on a synagogue in California, and a church in Burkina Faso. UNIFEED

Speaking at a ceremony to mark the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of Victims of the Holocaust, Secretary-General António Guterres said that as we remember the Holocaust’s victims, “we also reaffirm our resolve to fight the hatred that still plagues our world today.” UNIFEED

Following a moment of silence for victims of genocide, Secretary-General António Guterres said “seventy years after the Genocide Convention was adopted, people are still being killed, raped, their homes torched, their lands confiscated, just because of who they are.” UNIFEED

United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng said “we can only put the Genocide Convention to rest when the threat of genocide is no longer in the horizon of our society.” UNIFEED

As the world officially remembers the genocidal murder of 800,000 Rwandans in 1994, the United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, said that the horrific acts committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar will one day be brought before an international court, and “will be determined as crimes against humanity, as ethnic cleansing” and possibly as genocide. UNIFEED / FILE

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the Fez Plan of Action sets out a broad range of ways in which religious leaders can prevent incitement to violence and contribute to peace and stability adding that “all religions teach respect for life, and recognize human beings as fundamentally equal.” UNIFEED