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A spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), reported that following High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet’s call for governments to reduce overcrowding in prisons to prevent “catastrophic rates” of COVID-19 infection, “a number of countries have indeed been taking action on this front.” OHCHR

A weekly market at Sakure, along the border between South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is closed as the South Sudanese Government’s effort to mitigate the global threat posed by COVID-19. UNMISS

Answering questions from journalists via videoconference, the spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rupert Colville, highlighted the need to flag to authorities where elderly people live, “ensuring they're getting the help they need, and they are not simply abandoned.” OHCHR

The UN Human Rights Commissioner is following with concern developments in Hungary, where the government is pressing ahead with a bill to extend what is termed a “state of danger” that was declared earlier this month in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the spokesperson for the Commissioner said on Friday. OHCHR

Deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif has called on governments to take urgent action to protect the health and safety of people in detention and other closed facilities, as part of overall efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. OHCHR

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called on governments to take urgent action to protect the health and safety of people in detention and other closed facilities, as part of overall efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. UNTV CH

Broad sectoral sanctions should urgently be re-evaluated in countries facing the coronavirus pandemic, in light of their potentially debilitating impact on the health sector and human rights, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Tuesday. UNIFEED

UN Victims’ Rights Advocate Jane Connors said the Secretary-General’s strategy on sexual exploitation and abuse shifted the UN system’s focus on how to implement the “zero-tolerance approach” and “refocused our attention on victims.” UNIFEED

As the Syrian conflict has entered its tenth year, the UN Secretary-General said, “we cannot allow the tenth year to result in the same carnage, the same flouting of human rights and international humanitarian law, the same inhumanity.” UNIFEED