Geneva Press Briefing: WHO, WTO, OHCHR, UNHCR…

ANNOUNCEMENTS

WHO Tarik Jašarević (Zoom)

• · WHO Global Campaign to Combat Ageism
• · WHO Global Evidence-to-Policy Summit 2021

WTO Fernando Puchol (Zoom)

• · 12th Ministerial Conference

WFP Tomson Phiri (B-128)

• · WFP study provides first-ever look at the links between climate change and food security in the Philippines

TOPICS

WHO Margaret Harris (Zoom, Kaboul)

• · Health situation in Afghanistan
• OHCHR Elizabeth Throssell (B-128)
• · DRC: Violence in Masisi and Lubero territories in North Kivu
• · Sudan: Call for restraint ahead of mass protests due Saturday
• · Western Balkans: Concern over glorification of war criminals

UNHCR Shabia Mantoo (B-128) with Andrew Harper, UNHCR Special Advisor on Climate Action (B-128)

• · World must turn COP26 words into action for forcibly displaced and stateless

FAO/WFP Tomson Phiri (B-128) with Luca Russo (Zoom), Senior Food Crises Analyst and Team Leader at FAO

• · Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Report on Democratic Republic of Congo

FAO Josef Schmidhuber, Deputy Director, Markets and Trade Division, FAO (Zoom)

• · Food Outlook, November 2021: Food import bills and farm input prices at multi-year highs