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High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk conducted an official mission to Venezuela, at the invitation of the Government. OHCHR

A spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office told reporters, “Two years after the Myanmar military launched a coup against the democratically elected government, the country has sunk deeper than ever into crisis and has undergone a wholesale regression in human rights.” UNTV CH

Ukraine hopes to have the UN General Assembly vote on a resolution based on President Volodymyr Zelenskyy 10-point peace plan in February, the country’s First Deputy Foreign Minister informed. UNIFEED

The trial of Belarusian rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski is “simply politically motivated” and he should be released, the UN human rights office said. UNTV CH

The Secretary-General has decided to disband his Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) regarding the 29 July 2022 Incident at Olenivka in Ukraine “in the absence of conditions required for the deployment of the Mission to the site,” a UN Spokesperson said. UNIFEED

Delivering a joint statement on behalf of many Member States, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield urged all Security Council members to support an open briefing in 2023 to “discuss the human rights violations and abuses committed by the DPRK, the implications for peace and security and explore ways to incorporate human rights into the peace and security diplomacy in the Korean peninsula.” UNIFEED

Speaking to reporters at the end of his official visit to Ukraine, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said, ”the scale of civilian casualties, as well as the significant damage and destruction to civilian objects - including hospitals and schools - is shocking.” OHCHR

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Sunday began a four-day official visit to Ukraine, at the invitation of the Government. OHCHR

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, said he has encouraged key actors in the political, economic, and security spheres "to engage in dialogue with each other inside Libya, which would send a clear message to the population that they are serious about resolving their differences." UNIFEED

The head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Matilda Bogner, told reporters in Geneva that over the past several months, they had interviewed 159 prisoners of war whom the Russian Federation held, and 175 prisoners of war held by Ukraine. UNTV CH