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Record Numbers Risking Lives To Cross Dangerous Darien Gap
Thursday, 7 September 2023, 8:48 pm | UN News
An unprecedented number of migrants and refugees continue to cross the dense tropical jungle between Colombia and Panama known as the Darien Gap, risking their lives and facing horrific human rights abuses, the UN rights office (OHCHR) said on Tuesday. ... More >>
Ukraine: Latest Russian Attack ‘Another Example’ Of Civilian Suffering
Thursday, 7 September 2023, 8:38 pm | UN News
The top UN humanitarian official in Ukraine on Wednesday strongly condemned Russian attacks, including on a busy market in the town of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region, that reportedly caused dozens of civilian deaths and injuries, including ... More >>
Coasts & Sea Life Face Major Threat Due To Sand Removal
Thursday, 7 September 2023, 4:52 am | UN News
Startling findings from a new UN data platform reveal that the marine dredging industry is extracting a staggering six billion tons of sand and sediment annually. This is equivalent to over one million dump trucks every day – placing immense pressure ... More >>
Literacy Classes For Afghan Girls And Women
Tuesday, 5 September 2023, 5:14 am | UN News
Afghanistan’s Logar province is one of the most conservative areas in the country. Even before the decision of the de-facto authorities to suspend girls’ access to beyond primary education, most families did not let their girls go to school. Most ... More >>
Carnage In Haiti Needs To Stop
Tuesday, 5 September 2023, 5:12 am | UN News
Haiti is in the grip of “extreme brutality”, with gang-related violence continuing to force thousands from their homes amidst widespread suffering, said the UN’s top humanitarian official there. The desperate situation prompted a tweet on Friday ... More >>
Indigenous Knowledge Tackles Climate Crisis in Philippines
Tuesday, 5 September 2023, 5:01 am | UN News
In the mountainous province of Bukidnon in the southern Philippines, local indigenous groups are being forced to adapt to the alarming impacts of climate change. With UN support, communities are making significant strides, using centuries-old knowledge ... More >>
Urgent Call For $1B To Support Millions Fleeing Sudan Conflict
Tuesday, 5 September 2023, 4:58 am | UN News
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR , and 64 humanitarian and national civil society organisations on Monday appealed for $1 billion to provide essential aid and protection to more than 1.8 million people fleeing the ongoing conflict in Sudan who are expected to ... More >>
Philippines: Indigenous Knowledge Takes On Climate Crisis
Monday, 4 September 2023, 6:43 am | UN News
In the mountainous province of Bukidnon in the southern Philippines, local indigenous groups are being forced to adapt to the alarming impacts of climate change. With UN support, communities are making significant strides, using centuries-old knowledge ... More >>
Yemen: Alarming Surge In Measles And Rubella Cases, Reports WHO
Saturday, 2 September 2023, 9:04 pm | UN News
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) issued a stark warning on Thursday over rising cases of measles and rubella among children in Yemen, as a vaccination campaign there faces cutbacks due to insufficient funding. As of July, there have been more than ... More >>
Refusal To Waive IP Rights For COVID-19 Vaccines Violates Human Rights: Experts
Saturday, 2 September 2023, 9:02 pm | UN News
UN rights experts called on States in the global North on Thursday to forgo intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments in the name of human rights. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ( CERD ) adopted a decision ... More >>
UNESCO World Heritage Sites Often ‘Last Line Of Defence Against Extinction’
Saturday, 2 September 2023, 8:57 pm | UN News
Some of the world’s most iconic natural and cultural sites are also a haven for thousands of endangered species, the UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said on Thursday. Although properties protected under the World Heritage ... More >>
First Person: Caught In The Crossfire In Ukraine
Saturday, 2 September 2023, 8:49 pm | UN News
Ugochi Daniels, Deputy Director General for Operations with the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM), vividly describes what it was like spending a week in Ukraine and Moldova, meeting some of those most affected by Russia’s ongoing ... More >>
Haiti Violence: ‘Carnage Needs To Stop’ Says UN Relief Chief
Saturday, 2 September 2023, 6:57 pm | UN News
Haiti is in the grip of “extreme brutality”, with gang-related violence continuing to force thousands from their homes amidst widespread suffering, said the UN’s top humanitarian official there. The desperate situation prompted a tweet on Friday ... More >>
200,000 Children At Risk Of Starvation In Mali
Saturday, 2 September 2023, 4:35 am | UN News
A nexus of protracted armed conflict, internal displacement and limited humanitarian access threatens to plunge nearly one million children under the age of five into acute malnutrition by the end of this year – with at least 200,000 at risk of dying ... More >>
Iran's Draft Hijab Law Tantamount To ‘Gender Apartheid’
Saturday, 2 September 2023, 4:33 am | UN News
A group of UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts expressed their grave concern on Friday over a new draft law in Iran sanctioning new punishments for women and girls who fail to wear the headscarf, or hijab, in public. “The draft law could ... More >>
Support For Children As Wildfires Rage Across Greece
Thursday, 31 August 2023, 5:35 am | UN News
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday called for urgent assistance for children caught up in wildfires in Greece, considered to be the worst Europe has seen since the turn of the century. Fuelled by record temperatures and high winds, ... More >>
Rights Experts ‘Outraged’ Over Attacks On Women Activists in Mexico
Thursday, 31 August 2023, 5:33 am | UN News
A group of UN independent human rights experts on Wednesday urged the Government of Mexico to investigate and prosecute those who attack and kill women activists searching for their missing relatives. “We are outraged that those searching for ... More >>
‘Atrocious Crime’ Of Enforced Disappearances
Thursday, 31 August 2023, 5:27 am | UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres marked Wednesday’s International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance by condemning the “atrocious crime” and urging all Member States to hold those who perpetrate it accountable. Enforced disappearance ... More >>
With COVID-19 ‘Here To Stay’, New Tools Essential To Continue Fight: Tedros
Wednesday, 30 August 2023, 6:18 am | UN News
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday announced an expanded partnership to improve access to COVID-19 technology, knowledge and clinical data, stressing the fight against the virus must continue. The partnership, called the COVID-19 Technology ... More >>
UN Appeals For Nuclear Test Ban Amid ‘Alarming Rise In Global Mistrust’
Wednesday, 30 August 2023, 6:14 am | UN News
The United Nations on Tuesday called for more global action to end nuclear testing, warning against the danger of “collective suicide”. In his message marking the International Day against Nuclear Tests, Secretary-General António Guterres appealed ... More >>
