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‘Catastrophic’ Hunger Recorded In Haiti For First Time, UN Warns
Saturday, 15 October 2022, 7:01 pm | UN News
An unrelenting series of crises has trapped vulnerable Haitians in a cycle of growing desperation, without access to food, fuel, markets, jobs and public services, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme ... More >>
Global Food Crisis: Let’s Move From ‘Despair To Hope And Action’, Urges Guterres
Saturday, 15 October 2022, 6:46 pm | UN News
In the face of the growing hunger crisis, the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization stressed on Friday, ahead of World Food Day , the need to “harness the power of solidarity and collective action” to build a sustainable world with ... More >>
Ukraine: Russian Large-scale Strikes Are ‘Unacceptable Escalation’, Says Guterres
Tuesday, 11 October 2022, 5:50 am | UN News
The UN chief António Guterres said that large-scale strikes by the Russian military on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other locations on Monday, were deeply shocking and represented “another unacceptable escalation” of the war. The strikes which ... More >>
World Day Against The Death Penalty: UN Experts Warn Of Associated Torture And Cruel Punishment
Tuesday, 11 October 2022, 5:16 am | UN News
10 October 2022 GENEVA (10 October 2022 ) – On the 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Alice Edwards, and the Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial ... More >>
Nobel Peace Prize Winners Shine Spotlight On ‘The Power Of Civil Society To Promote Peace’
Saturday, 8 October 2022, 5:44 am | UN News
The human rights advocates from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus who have been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, represent “the oxygen of democracy” said the UN chief on Friday, in a message of congratulations to the three winners. The laureates ... More >>
Horrific Thailand Nursery Attack Prompts Swift International Condemnation
Friday, 7 October 2022, 5:32 am | UN News
A horrific attack on a childcare centre in northern Thailand that has left dozens dead, prompted strong international condemnation on Thursday. UN Secretary-General António Guterres, said he was shocked and saddened by the mass shooting. More than ... More >>
World Teachers’ Day Highlights Need To Transform Education
Thursday, 6 October 2022, 6:57 am | UN News
Teachers are at the heart of education, and their valuable work must also lead to better salaries and working conditions, the heads of three UN agencies and a partner organization said on Wednesday. The statement comes in their joint message to mark ... More >>
Renewable Energy Jobs Rise By 700,000 In A Year, To Nearly 13 Million
Wednesday, 5 October 2022, 6:11 am | UN News
Worldwide employment in the renewable energy sector reached 12.7 million last year, a jump of 700,000 new jobs in just 12 months, despite the lingering effects of COVID-19 and the growing energy crisis, according to a new report published by the International ... More >>
Five Ways Media And Journalists Can Support Climate Action While Tackling Misinformation
Wednesday, 5 October 2022, 6:08 am | UN News
It’s a fact: media shapes the public discourse about climate change and how to respond to it. Even the UN’s own Intergovernmental Panel of Experts on Climate Change (IPCC) warned clearly of this for the first time in the latest of its landmark ... More >>
Pakistan: To Avert ‘Second Wave Of Death’, UN Raises Funding Appeal To $816 Million
Wednesday, 5 October 2022, 6:01 am | UN News
Battling what the top UN aid official in Pakistan has warned is a “second wave of death and destruction”, following catastrophic flooding since June that left a third of the country submerged, UN humanitarians on Tuesday raised their funding ... More >>
UN Committee On Migrant Workers Publishes Findings On Bolivia, Syria And Venezuela
Wednesday, 5 October 2022, 5:31 am | UN News
GENEVA (4 October 2022) – The UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW) today issued its findings on the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the Syrian Arab Republic and the Bolivarian ... More >>
UN Chief: Countries Bound For COP27 Must Make Climate Action ‘The Top Global Priority’
Tuesday, 4 October 2022, 6:35 am | UN News
As government representatives begin the finalize the agenda for the COP27 climate change conference in Egypt next month, for pre-COP planning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo capital, Kinshasa, Secretary-General António Guterres t old journalists ... More >>
Afghanistan: UN Condemns ‘callous’ Suicide Attack On Education Centre
Saturday, 1 October 2022, 5:39 am | UN News
The UN has condemned a suicide bombing in the Afghan capital Kabul which has left more than 20 dead, according to latest news reports, many of them young women who were sitting mock exams at an education centre. Dozens more were wounded at the Kaaj ... More >>
Little Progress Combating Systemic Racism Against People Of African Descent: UN Report
Saturday, 1 October 2022, 5:36 am | UN News
More than two years since the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in the United States sparked the global Black Lives Matter movement, there’s been only “piecemeal progress” in addressing systemic racism, the UN human rights office ... More >>
Black Sea Exports Ramp Up, Bringing Confidence To Global Commerce And Food To Most Vulnerable
Friday, 30 September 2022, 7:12 pm | UN News
Two months since the Black Sea Grain Initiative kicked into action to help release desperately needed grain and fertilizer from ports in Ukraine and Russia, confidence is returning among global distributors as exports ramp up, UN humanitarians said ... More >>
‘Dire’ And Deteriorating Pattern Of Rights Abuse Continues In Ukraine
Thursday, 29 September 2022, 7:09 am | UN News
Ongoing armed attacks by Russia against Ukraine have led to devastating human rights abuses there, according to a new report released on Tuesday by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission for the war-torn country (HRMMU). Highlighting a wide range of ... More >>
Join Forces To Prevent ‘Food Availability Crisis’ Urges FAO Chief
Thursday, 29 September 2022, 7:07 am | UN News
As the war in Ukraine stokes a crisis for countries who are struggling just to access the food their populations want and need, the international community needs to ensure that doesn’t spill over into a “food availability crisis”, the head of the ... More >>
Time To Address Mental Health Issues In The Workplace, UN Agencies Urge
Thursday, 29 September 2022, 7:06 am | UN News
With an estimated 12 billion workdays lost annually due to depression and anxiety, costing the global economy nearly $1 trillion, more action is needed to tackle mental health issues at work, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International ... More >>
Referenda In Russian-controlled Ukraine ‘cannot Be Regarded As Legal’: UN Political Affairs Chief
Wednesday, 28 September 2022, 6:26 pm | UN News
Recent so-called referenda conducted in four Russian-occupied regions in Ukraine cannot be considered legal under international law, the UN’s political affairs chief, Rosemary DiCarlo, told the Security Council on Tuesday. Ukrainian President ... More >>
Central African Republic: Said Trial Opens At International Criminal Court
Tuesday, 27 September 2022, 7:16 am | UN News
The trial of a paramilitary commander accused of carrying out or ordering crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Central African Republic (CAR) began on Monday in The Hague. Mahamat Said Abdel Kani - a top-ranking leader of the mostly-Muslim ... More >>
