🔴 BREAKING The Human Rights Council has elected its leadership for 2023, starting 1 January: 🔹 President Václav Bálek (#Czechia) 🔹 4 vice presidents from #Bolivia, #Gambia, #Luxembourg, and #Maldives

The Alley of the Flags under the Geneva snow ❄️🏛️❄️ The Alley of Flags consists of the 193 flags of United Nations Member States + 2 Observer States: the State of Palestine and the Holy See. View more 2022 📷 highlights at bit.ly/2URPXil for more #YearInReview

Ambassador Duncan was delighted to host 🇹🇴 Tongan MFA Hon Fekitamoela ‘Utoikamanu and Pacific Permanent Representatives in Geneva to celebrate Tonga’s Universal Periodic Review. MFA Tonga 🇹🇴 Fekitamoeloa K. Utoikamanu 🇳🇿

Below are the two most important metrics of our time. Top: the decline of biodiversity between 1970-2018. Below: global temperatures between 1850-2022.

The chart of The United Nations System has been updated! More information here: ask.un.org/faq/94885 #AskDAG, United Nations

The Secretary-General of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), H.E. Georges Rebelo Chikoti, congratulates the Republic of Palau for signing the Samoa Agreement at the OACPS Secretariat in Brussels. Her Excellency Doreen DeBrum, Ambassador and

Seventy years ago, on 1 March 1954, the US government exploded a thermonuclear weapon on #Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, codenamed #Bravo. The health and environmental consequences continue to this day. My report from Majuro for Islands Business. THREAD. islandsbusiness.com/news-break/tac…

Join us at our side event co-hosted with our dear friends #WCC World Council of Churches (WCC) commemorating our Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day #NVRD “Nuclear Resilience for Peace & Prosperity” to be held at the Ecumenical Centre this Friday, 08 March at 2PM.

And (nuclear) justice for all ✊🏽 #IntlDayForDisarmamentAndNonProliferation #05March #NoClosureWithoutFullDisclosure

Hilda C. Heine, President of the Marshall Islands, addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council at its 57th session in Geneva, Switzerland. #HRC57

Marshall Islands Permanent Mission in Geneva RMI National Nuclear Commission Pacific Islands Forum ICAN UN Human Rights Alson J. Kelen Dr. Hilda C. Heine UN Human Rights Council Florian Eblenkamp Fiji Mission Geneva rmi_nationalnuclearcommission Visit the exhibition, "Nuclear Cries Through Innocent Eyes" that feature the perspective of children and youth on the harsh realities of the legacy of nuclear testing in the #MarshallIslands. 📆 27 September to 4 October 2024 | Near Room XX, Palais des Nations

Privileged to welcome President Dr. Hilda C. Heine in Geneva & support Marshall Islands' leadership for #humanrights, incl. in context of #climatechange & nuclear testing legacy, as well as wider issues of concern to Pacific and other Small Island Developing States.

Congratulations Philip Lens and the team at Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) for this first in class insurance program for fisheries observers.

#NukeFreeFriday Forty-nine Pacific civil society groups have expressed support for a resolution proposed by the Republic of the Marshall Islands at the 57th Session of the Human Rights Council on 4 October 2024. In solidarity ☢️ 🚫 🇲🇭 ✊ 🔗 Read here: pang.org.fj/wp-content/upl…

78 years after the first of 67 known nuclear tests in the #MarshallIslands, their consequences continue to cast a shadow across the lives of the Marshallese. Human rights & transitional justice offer a path to reconciliation, lessons for a world grappling with nuclear risks &

Kazakhstan🇰🇿 welcomes the initiative of Marshall Islands🇲🇭 to deal with the consequences of nuclear tragedy through UN Human Rights Council. Pleased to co-sponsor the resolution on tech assistance&capacity-building to address the human rights implications of nuclear testing in 🇲🇭 #HRC57

The core group for the SR human rights & climate change, Elisa Morgera mandate was all smiles today at #HRC57 following the consensual adoption of the resolution to renew the mandate. Thanks to all delegations for this show of unity & support to ensure the important work continues! 🇧🇸🇪🇺🇫🇯🇲🇭🇵🇦🇵🇾🇸🇩 #SIDS

For perspective, here's cell phones from years of each CFP semifinalist's last national title: Ohio State, 2014. Texas, 2005. Notre Dame, 1988. Penn State, 1986.

Yeah!!!!!! GO CANADA! 🥰 As a Washingtonian YES please take us!!! Fuck Trump and all the Republicans who voted him in. #FAFO

“We don’t love leaders by example because leaders by example are guys that just do what they’re told to do, do everything their asked but they don’t say things when their teammates aren’t reaching a standard. We need more leaders. Guys that are willing to hold their teammates