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Adoption of the reports on New Zealand, Afghanistan, Chile, Cyprus and Uruguay - 46th Session of Universal Periodic Review

Review of Afghanistan - 46th Session of Universal Periodic Review

UN Geneva press briefing chaired by Rolando Gómez, Chief, Press and External Relations Section, UN Information Service

Hear stories from deminers working in Gaza, Ukraine, Afghanistan and South Sudan to mitigate the threat posed by mines, explosive remnants of war and improvised explosive devices.

Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security (S/2024/196). 

Since the Taliban's seizure of power in 2021, women and girls in Afghanistan have been subjected to severe repression of their rights and freedoms, which UN experts, legal scholars and activists agree amounts to a system of apartheid to deliberately subjugate them on the basis of gender.

Decades of war in #Afghanistan have left explosive ammunitions scattered across the landscape. After a life-changing event, an Afghan #woman became an advocate for #disability rights and #inclusion.

Hybrid press conference by Kanni Wignaraja, the Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and Stephen Rodriques, UNDP Resident Representative in Afghanistan. They provided an update on the socioeconomic situation in Afghanistan.

The situation in Afghanistan.

Comments to the media by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, on Afghanistan, Sudan, Gaza & other topics, prior to the Security Council consultations.

Briefing by Roza Otunbayeva, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), on the situation in the Country, during the Security Council, 9515th meeting.

The Special Rapporteur will brief the press on his recent report on the human rights situation in Afghanistan.