Geneva Press Briefing: HRC, OHCHR, UNICEF, UNHCR…

ANNOUNCEMENTS

HRC               Pascal Sim (PR)

·         Human Rights Council update 

UNCTAD      Catherine Huissoud (PR) with Marcelo Risi, new staff member of the                                      Communications and External Relations team at UNCTAD

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

UNCTAD      Catherine Huissoud (PR)

UNAIDS        Charlotte Sector (Zoom)

UNIS on behalf of UN WOMEN

TOPICS

OHCHR         Jeremy Laurence (PR)

·         Update on Gaza

 Ajith Sunghay, Head of Head of UN Human Rights Office for the Occupied Palestinian Territory (From East Jerusalem)

·         Israeli settlement report

UNICEF        James Elder (PR) with Guy Taylor, UNICEF Mozambique chief of communication

·         Displacement of children amid escalating violence in Mozambique. From Maputo

IFRC              Tommaso Della Longa (PR) with Pierre Kremer, Deputy Regional Director, IFRC                Africa (From Nairobi)

·          Humanitarian needs and the movement of people within the Democratic Republic of Congo.

     Sami Fakhouri, Head of Delegation, IFRC Morocco,

§  Six months since the devastating earthquake hit the high Atlas Mountains of Morrocco. Humanitarian needs and responses to date. (From Rabat)

FAO                KiJung Min (Zoom) with Monika Tothova, Senior Economist (From Rome)

·         FAO Food Price Index: Monthly update on global food commodity prices