Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani Location: Geneva Date: 18 August 2023 Subject: (1) Niger (2) Haiti 1) Niger UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today expressed grave concerns for the people of Niger who have .
The heads of the ITUC and TUCA, the ITUC’s regional organisation for the Americas, have written to the President of Ecuador demanding immediate action to halt the spiral of violence in the country. Dozens of people have been hurt and killed in pre-election .
The United Nations has strongly condemned the assassination of a presidential candidate in Ecuador, urging authorities to investigate the crime. Fernando Villavicencio, 59, was shot dead after leaving a campaign rally at a school in the capital, Quito, .
The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Patron of the Oceans, Lewis Pugh, is on a quest to swim the length of the iconic Hudson River in New York state to draw attention to the critical importance of healthy river ecosystems to oceans and the overall .
10 August 2023 I condemn the killing of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio and the injuring of a number of other people in this shocking criminal act. I note that an investigation has been opened. It is important to undertake promptly and .