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🩸🌍 Did you know that a single #BloodDonation can help save up to three lives?
Today is World Blood Donor Day! Let's celebrate and thank all blood donors for their generosity.
#GiveBlood, give hope and save lives!
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“Fossil fuels are a dead end — environmentally and economically.” -@antonioguterres
The climate crisis is the fight of our lives, we don’t have a moment to lose.
The only sustainable future is a renewable one!
#ClimateAction
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“There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
Let us honor Nelson Mandela's legacy by taking action.
By standing up for child's rights, #ForEveryChild.
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"The vast majority of people around the world want a better world."
- @volker_turk at the launch of the Global Alliance for Human Rights
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UN experts launch a new report on the ocean that some call the most important ever.
"We have a much clearer understanding of not only where we stand but what we must do as a community." - ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau presenting the 3rd World Ocean Assessment
#SaveOurOcean
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"We must confront hate speech and uphold human rights and human dignity before it is too late." - @antonioguterres
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Last month at @UNGeneva, we celebrated the restoration of the Celestial Sphere.
Designed by Paul H. Manship, it was originally inaugurated in 1939 to mark 20th anniversary of the League of Nations.
💫 This monument remains a lasting emblem of international cooperation.
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Children want a world where their rights are respected.
Let’s listen to children and stand up for their rights, every day.
What is your wish #ForEveryChild?
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In Geneva next Thursday?
🎬Join us for our next @CineONU with the screening of 📽️"Lost Land" and engage in a discussion on the right to seek safety.
📆18 JUNE⌚6:30 pm
📍Cinerama Empire
🎟 Free entrance
🎞️ OV Rohingya/ST English
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𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 has the right to all the rights & freedoms registered in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
#StandUp4HumanRights
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"Peace is not just made at conference tables, but in classrooms, neighbourhoods and everywhere people meet with open minds, open hearts.
Together, we can build a more just world, with compassion, equality and dignity for all"
- @antonioguterres
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This week, @volker_turk has launched the Global Alliance for Human Rights – an alliance for all those who care deeply about our rights and our future.
"A future that belongs to all must be built on something that unites us. And that is human rights."
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Jun 12
Most violence against women is perpetrated by a current or former husband or intimate partner.
Let's UNITE to end violence against women, #EndGBV!
More facts & figures from @UN_Women: buff.ly/4hIJQqT
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A new report from @Refugees shows global forced displacement has dropped for the first time in a decade. However, UNHCR warns that the increase in refugee returns may have occurred under pressure to precarious conditions.
#GlobalTrends report ➡️ buff.ly/toL8Xje
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The World Health Organization @who has declared the #Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo & Uganda a public health emergency of international concern. There is high risk of further spread & the likelihood that the outbreak may be larger than currently detected.
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New @UNAIDS report:
External funding cuts, a strong pushback on human rights and under-investment & under-prioritization of #HIV prevention and community services are threatening to reverse years of gains in the AIDS response.
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UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers & Members of Their Families has concluded its 42nd session in Geneva, after adopting findings on Ecuador 🇪🇨, the Gambia 🇬🇲 and Ghana 🇬🇭.
Our summary: ungeneva.org/en/news-media/m…
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138 million children are in child labour.
This is a global emergency that demands urgent, sustained action!
On today's World Day Against Child Labour, we should all raise the Red Card and do what we can to #EndChildLabour.
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One in five people in #Lebanon are displaced amid ongoing and deadly conflict across the Middle East. “The suffering is great and the pain as well,” says @Refugees chief @BarhamSalih. Check out UNHCR’s new #GlobalTrends report on displacement: buff.ly/XKAZwGi
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