Marc Bichler

@LUinGeneva 🙏🙏🙏

After 4 years as Luxembourg’s Ambassador in Geneva, we bid farewell to @BichlerMarc, thank him for his service and dedication and wish him the very best for the future. 🇱🇺🇺🇳

At the #HRC59 panel on the right to safe drinking water & sanitation, #Luxembourg🇱🇺 stresses that access to water is a #HumanRight, key to health & education. 🇱🇺 highlights its 🇨🇻 programme with @LuxDev_HQ incl. solar-powered desalination, supporting SIDS & Agenda2030.

At #HRC59 ID with SR @FranceskAlbs, #Luxembourg 🇱🇺 urges full respect for IHL & access for humanitarian aid in #OPT and calls for a ceasefire to end civilian suffering. 🇱🇺 highlights corporate role in illegal occupation & asks how the HRC can ensure due diligence under #UNGPs.

Norway is proud to take over the gavel from 🇱🇺 as chair of the International Humanitarian Partnership As humanitarian needs grow, partnerships like IHP — built on trust, experience & practical support are more important than ever. Together, we’ll keep helping the helpers

At #HRC59 annual panel on #climate, #Luxembourg 🇱🇺 highlights that there is no sustainable dev. without sustainable financing, supports tech assistance to LDCs+SIDs, values indigenous knowledge & showcases FCCF projects in 🇬🇹 that fight deforestation & create fair local jobs.

Top performer in development financing: According to @CGDev’s combined ranking on quantity & quality, #Luxembourg 🇱🇺 is in the lead. It focuses strongly on countries most in need, with projects well aligned with recipients’ priorities. 📊 cgdev.org/publication/de…

At #HRC59 ID with @SRjudgeslawyers, #Luxembourg🇱🇺 supports the call to safeguard judicial independence & protect lawyers from intimidation. 🇱🇺 highlights the #COE Convention on the profession of lawyer, adopted under its Chairmanship, and calls for its signature & ratification.

#Luxembourg 🇱🇺 celebrates its National Day today! 🔴Schéine Nationalfeierdag! ⚪️Alles Gute zum Nationalfeiertag! 🔵 Joyeuse fête nationale ! 🎉🇱🇺

Thank you Ambassador Bichler for inspiring opening remarks at today’s Symposium on New Technologies and the #Missing, including Victims of Enforced Disappearances, and for Luxembourg’s support to the @ICRC efforts to promote responsible use of #newtech in #humanitarian action.

Norway 🇳🇴 , Malta 🇲🇹 , Luxembourg 🇱🇺, Romania 🇷🇴 - thank you for opening your doors to 18 patients from #Gaza. @WHO, in collaboration with @eu_echo, supported their evacuation via Kerem Shalom. With this latest effort, the number of patients evacuated from Gaza has reached 799 – through both @eu_echo & bilateral arrangements. The number of WHO/Europe Member States receiving Palestinian patients has now risen to 15. Grateful to every nation stepping up with compassion & care. (Images - @DSU_Romania) #HealthForAll

#Luxembourg🇱🇺 #UPR49 recommendations to #Kyrgyzstan🇰🇬: 1️⃣Ensure Office of the Ombudsman’s independence per Paris Principles 2️⃣Adopt anti-discrimination law incl. SOGI 3️⃣Adapt legislation to facilitate CSOs’ work 4️⃣Align media law with HR standards to protect journalists

#Luxembourg🇱🇺 #UPR49 recommendations to #Spain🇪🇸: 1️⃣End incommunicado detention & solitary confinement, especially for minors 2️⃣Increase investment in social protection incl. universal child allowance 3️⃣Strengthen anti-trafficking efforts focusing on prevention & protection

#Luxembourg🇱🇺 #UPR49 recommendations to #Kenya🇰🇪: 1️⃣Ensure full compliance of freedom of assembly with the ICCPR 2️⃣Strengthen efforts to end all discrimination, harassment and violence based on SOGI 3️⃣Abolish the death penalty 4️⃣Enforce laws against child marriage and FGM

#Luxembourg🇱🇺 #UPR49 recommendations to #Sweden🇸🇪: 1️⃣Strengthen action against discrimination & hate crimes; improve access to housing, education &jobs for minorities 2️⃣Ensure migrants’ rights incl. fair procedures & family reunification 3️⃣Enhance GBV prevention &support services

#Luxembourg🇱🇺 #UPR49 recommendations to #Türkiye🇹🇷: 1️⃣Ratify the Rome Statute 2️⃣End impunity for hate crimes including GBV & anti-LGBTQI+ violence 3️⃣Ensure judicial independence 4️⃣Ensure peaceful exercise of freedom of association does not lead to prosecutions

Thank you Minister Martine Deprez of #Luxembourg and Ambassador @BichlerMarc from @LUinGeneva for the warm exchange on the sidelines of #WHA78! 👏 Congratulations to 🇱🇺 for its strong leadership and engagement in the Universal Health and Preparedness Review #UHPR process. Looking forward to the high-level mission in Luxembourg! #HealthSecurity #GlobalHealth #UHPR #WHA78

At #HRC59 EID with @SR_Afghanistan on #Afghanistan🇦🇫: #Luxembourg🇱🇺 condemns ongoing human rights violations, including the systematic persecution of women and girls. Luxembourg supports calls for a holistic accountability mechanism and reaffirms its support to the #ICC.

At #HRC59 ID on #Eritrea🇪🇷, the #Benelux countries 🇧🇪🇳🇱🇱🇺 expressed concern over ongoing human rights violations, including incommunicado detentions & enforced disappearances. We urge Eritrea to cooperate with the UN mandate & implement key UPR recommendations.

Ambassador @BichlerMarc shares a clear message: Pride Month is a time to amplify what should be obvious #LGBTIQ+ rights are human rights. We stand for equality, inclusion, and respect not just this month, but always. 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth #DiplomatsForEquality