# NuseReal

UN News

October 2024

Five leading human rights experts have called on Azerbaijan to commit to protecting human rights defenders seeking to attend the UN's Climat Change Congress (COP29) taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 11–22 November, after moves against activists. — 29 October 2024 (LINK)

— The statement, signed by Mary Lawlor, United Nations, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, and four other senior specialists, says: "As a Party to the Aarhus Convention, Azerbaijan has a binding obligation to protect environmental defenders and to promote their participation in international forums like the COP."

— "Despite this, while Azerbaijan has been preparing to host COP29 in Baku, recent months have been marked by an alarming wave of arrests and criminal cases against human rights defenders in the country, including journalists and independent media, and several of us have received complaints concerning threats and reprisals against environmental defenders specifically."

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UN Stamps celebrate the 55th Anniversary of the UNPA in Geneva — 24 October 2024 (LINK)

The Long-Term Societal Impacts of AI: A Holistic View of Opportunities and Challenges with Lambert Hoganaut, Chief of Data and AI at the United Nations Secretariat — 25 min — 18 October 2024 (LINK)

CERN teams up with Luxembourg and the World Food Programme to tackle global hunger: the new partnership aims to leverage state-of-the-art AI technology to speed up progress towards a world with zero hunger — 15 October 2024 (LINK)

An important UN election you've probably never heard of: for the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) — 15 October 2024 (LINK)

IOM and UN Women scale-up efforts to advance women's rights in migration policies and humanitarian responses — 14 October 2024 (LINK)

Israeli PM Netanyahu tells UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon to withdraw 'immediately' — 13 October 2024 (LINK)

40 countries contributing to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon 'strongly condemn' Israeli attacks on UN peacekeepers — 12 October 2024 (LINK)

What lies ahead for the UN's new relief chief, Tom Fletcher, a former UK ambassador to Lebanon and foreign policy aide to prime ministers from both sides of Britain's political aisle — 11 October 2024 (LINK)

— He inherits a post that has been branded the "toughest job in international civil service" — and that has seen its two previous incumbents step down early. Already, he has faced pointed questions over his relative lack of humanitarian experience, and frustration that the UN system has chosen a sixth straight Briton to take the role — many had hoped the appointment would break from the long-criticised convention of global powers dominating choice UN positions.

Saudi Arabia narrowly fails to win seat on U.N. Human Rights Council — 9 October 2024 (LINK)

Israel bars U.N. secretary-general from entering country for not condemning Iran's missile attack — 2 October 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 151 media reports (LINK)

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