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A United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)'s team visited a remote community of Lobonok in the Equatorias, to provide a protective presence and to investigate human rights abuses inflicted on local residents. UNMISS

UNHCR’s tech-friendly registration process is helping thousands of Rohingya refugees getting their own identity cards, along with better protection while in exile, and the prospect of a return home one day. UNHCR

UN chief António Guterres expressed his solidarity with the government and the people of Tuvalu in their determined efforts to preserve their country from the negative impacts of climate change. UNITED NATIONS

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called for a thorough, effective, and independent investigation into the death of 44-year-old Hassan Toufic Dika, during detention in Lebanon. OHCHR / UNTV CH

The United Nations is alarmed by the ongoing reports of violence and hostilities in the northwestern Syria, resulting at least 100 dead or injured and more than 180,000 displaced since the end of April. UNIFEED

Fred Warmbier, the father of Otto Warmbier, an American college student imprisoned in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and who was returned to the United States in a vegetative state and later died, said, “every member” of the DPRK Leader Kim Jong-un’s “regime, is a thug, he is a criminal, and he is a murderer.” UNIFEED

The Spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rupert Colville, expressed alarm at “the strikingly high number of human rights defenders being killed, harassed and threatened in Colombia, and by the fact that this terrible trend seems to be worsening.” UNTV CH

UN Human Rights Office is “deeply concerned about possibly 40 to 50 ethnic Rakhine boys and men who reportedly remain detained since 30 April in a Rathedaung township in northern Rakhine State, where six detainees were killed on 2 May by the Myanmar Army." OHCHR / UNTV CH

The International Commission of Inquiry on Syria said an all-out conflict in Idlib “could generate an unimaginable human rights and humanitarian catastrophe.” UNIFEED

Speaking at the launch of the UN Countering Terrorism Travel Programme, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, “detecting and disrupting these terrorists and other high-risk criminals prior to them carrying out an attack is a high priority for the international community,” noting that the recent despicable attacks in Kenya, New Zealand and Sri Lanka, among others, are tragic reminders of the global reach of the scourge of terrorism. UNIFEED