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Highlights - Exchange of views with Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - Subcommittee on Human Rights

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Monday, July 17, 2023

Exchange of views with Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

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  • Exchange of views with Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
    17-07-2023 - 11:11
    The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr Volker Türk, will address for the first time Members of DROI and LIBE during a joint meeting organised on Thursday 20 July.
  • The meeting provides a timely opportunity to address human rights achievements and global challenges on the matter.
  • 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 30th anniversary of the Vienna Declaration which established the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
  • The joint DROI and LIBE meeting with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights will take place in Brussels (room 4Q1, Antall building) on Thursday, 20 July 2023, from 11.00-12.30.

Ukraine recap: downbeat US intelligence leak suggests no end in sight for the misery of this war

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Saturday, April 15, 2023

As you’d expect, among the main areas of discussion is the likelihood of a Ukrainian spring counter-offensive being launched sometime soon.

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  • As you’d expect, among the main areas of discussion is the likelihood of a Ukrainian spring counter-offensive being launched sometime soon.
  • You can also subscribe to our fortnightly recap of expert analysis of the conflict in Ukraine.
  • Since neither side is backing down from its preferred outcomes from the conflict, it looks set to be a long war.
  • According to the Ukrainian government, 19,384 children have been deported to Russia since the start of the war.
  • Compounding the problem of identifying the stolen children was the fact that the regime had murdered many of their parents.

Geopolitics

    • It was difficult not to appreciate the irony of Finland’s decision to join Nato on April 4.
    • But the addition of Finland as Nato’s 31st member effectively doubles the alliance’s land border with Russia.
    • Finland’s accession also adds a country with an already robust defence policy and a well-funded military to the alliance.
    • It’s hard not to see its decision to join as something of an own goal for Putin.

Narratives (and the fate of those who tell them)

Truepic and Microsoft Pilot New Provenance Platform to Authenticate Images

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Monday, March 27, 2023

San Diego, CA, March 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Truepic , provider of authenticity infrastructure for the Internet, and Microsoft are piloting “Project Providence,” the world’s first interoperable system using Truepic’s authenticating camera SDK and the Microsoft Azure cloud platform to maintain the provenance or origin of images captured, from storage to display.

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  • San Diego, CA, March 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Truepic , provider of authenticity infrastructure for the Internet, and Microsoft are piloting “Project Providence,” the world’s first interoperable system using Truepic’s authenticating camera SDK and the Microsoft Azure cloud platform to maintain the provenance or origin of images captured, from storage to display.
  • This enables users to verify images as authentic and transparently display their time, date, location, and source to viewers.
  • With this technology, modifications to the images can be detected and the authentic source of images can be proven.
  • The Project Providence platform leverages the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity ( C2PA ) open standard to allow end-to-end interoperability between the capture of documentation, storage, and display.

Community Drive by Denver Companies to Send Medical Supplies to Ukraine Is an Amazing Success

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Tuesday, May 3, 2022

DENVER, May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the critical need for medical supplies in Ukraine following the invasion by Russia, Denver-area residents have responded in a big way.

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  • DENVER, May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the critical need for medical supplies in Ukraine following the invasion by Russia, Denver-area residents have responded in a big way.
  • to collect and send much-needed medical supplies to Ukraine.
  • The two Denver-based organizations, Urgent Care Solutions dba AFC Urgent Care and Project CURE, collected medical supplies at each of the AFC Urgent Care locations in Denver and Aurora.
  • "The response from our patients and the Denver community has been overwhelming," said Shay Kerman, COO of Urgent Care Solutions.

More than half of Ukraine's children displaced after one month of war - UNICEF

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Thursday, March 24, 2022

This includes more than 1.8 million children who have crossed into neighbouring countries as refugees and 2.5 million who are now internally displaced inside Ukraine.

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  • This includes more than 1.8 million children who have crossed into neighbouring countries as refugees and 2.5 million who are now internally displaced inside Ukraine.
  • "The war has caused one of the fastest largescale displacements of children since World War II," said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell.
  • According to OHCHR, 78 children have been killed, and 105 have been injured in Ukraine since the start of the war on 24 February.
  • UNICEF and its partners are working to reach children in Ukraine and in neighbouring countries with humanitarian assistance.

Organ Trafficking Continues; How US Donors, Recipients Are Kept Safe

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

In the U.S., all organ donations are managed by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), a nonprofit organization that contracts with the Department of Health and Human Services to serve as the nation's organ transplant system.

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  • In the U.S., all organ donations are managed by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), a nonprofit organization that contracts with the Department of Health and Human Services to serve as the nation's organ transplant system.
  • UNOS manages the national transplant waiting list, matching donors to recipients 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
  • Meanwhile in the U.S. as in the rest of the world, the need for organ donations far exceeds the supply.
  • ParaFlight EMS and Aviation and OrganFlights.com personify his lifelong mission of "changing the world, one organ at a time."

IAC issues statement after UN Letter release is made public : Cape Verde, Criticised Heavily by the United Nations

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Friday, October 15, 2021

The United Nations expresses its "deep concern about the allegations of arbitrary arrest, detention and extradition proceedings against Ambassador Saab".

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  • The United Nations expresses its "deep concern about the allegations of arbitrary arrest, detention and extradition proceedings against Ambassador Saab".
  • The United Nations Human Rights (OHCHR) letter1 sent to the government of Cape Verde on July 19, 2021, was made public to a large group of independent experts.
  • Early this morning, alarm was raised at the fate of Ambassador Alex Saab detained by the Cape Verdean authorities.
  • I urge the Cape Verde authorities to release Alex Saab immediately and demand accountability.

KAILASA Celebrates as UN Recognizes the Coverup of Persecution of SPH by Hindu-phobic Media

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Saturday, September 4, 2021

The UN Special Rapporteur examined the threats posed by disinformation to human rights, democratic institutions and development processes, presented at the Human Rights Council Forty-seventh session.

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  • The UN Special Rapporteur examined the threats posed by disinformation to human rights, democratic institutions and development processes, presented at the Human Rights Council Forty-seventh session.
  • The Special Rapporteur's detailed report found that the responses by States and companies have been problematic, inadequate, and detrimental to human rights.
  • She concludes, "Essentially, disinformation is a modern way in the digital era of making money by purposefully spreading lies."
  • The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam has been facing persecution for over two decades, especially for His highly progressive stance on true women empowerment.