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UN Envoy Calls For Extension And Expansion Of ‘Transformational’ Truce In Yemen
Friday, 22 July 2022, 7:09 am | UN News
The historic UN-brokered truce in Yemen has largely held for nearly four months, and Special Envoy Hans Grundberg on Thursday urged the Government and Houthi rebels to work towards renewing the “transformational” agreement, which expires on 2 ... More >>
Emergency Committee Meets Again As Monkeypox Cases Pass 14,000: WHO
Friday, 22 July 2022, 6:48 am | UN News
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday reconvened the Monkeypox Emergency Committee to assess the public health implications of the evolving multi-country outbreak, as global cases passed 14,000, with six countries reporting their first ... More >>
Guterres Hails Healer And ‘Mentor To Generations’, Nelson Mandela
Monday, 18 July 2022, 5:59 am | UN News
The UN chief in his message to mark Monday's International Day in honour of Nelson Mandela, hailed the first Black President of post-Apartheid South Africa and racial justice icon, “a giant of our time”, who remains a “moral compass” for us ... More >>
New Administration In Colombia Provides ‘tremendous Opportunity’ To Further Peace
Saturday, 16 July 2022, 6:27 pm | UN News
The international community should lend full support to the incoming administration in Colombia, which has a tremendous opportunity to speed up implementation of the landmark 2016 Peace Agreement that ended more than 50 years of civil war, the top ... More >>
COVID-19 Fuels Slowest Rate Of Childhood Vaccination In Three Decades, Leaving Millions At Risk
Saturday, 16 July 2022, 6:26 pm | UN News
Official data published by UN agencies on Friday shows the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccination rates in approximately 30 years, with 25 million infants missing out on lifesaving shots. The figures released by the World Health Organization ... More >>
Nigeria: New UN Resilience Project Paves ‘pathway To Peace And Sustainable Development'
Friday, 15 July 2022, 5:20 pm | UN News
Over 500,000 conflict-affected people in northeast Nigeria will be tossed “a lifeline,” thanks to a new UN humanitarian and development package, launched on Thursday. The Resilience and Social Cohesion project, launched by the UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ... More >>
Ukraine: Guterres Condemns Deadly Missile Attack On Vinnytsia; More Than 20 Killed
Friday, 15 July 2022, 5:19 pm | UN News
The UN Secretary-General is appalled by the deadly missile attack on Thursday against the city of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine, that reportedly killed at least 22 people, far from the frontline of the main fighting in the east, including three children ... More >>
More Women Work In Health And Care But They Earn 24 Per Cent Less Than Men: UN Report
Friday, 15 July 2022, 6:32 am | UN News
Women working in the health and care sector earn nearly 25 per cent less than their male counterparts – a larger gender pay gap than in other economic sectors, two UN agencies said in a new report on Wednesday. The gender pay gap in the health and ... More >>
Animal-to-human Diseases On The Rise In Africa, Warns UN Health Agency
Friday, 15 July 2022, 6:31 am | UN News
Diseases transmitted from animals to people in Africa have jumped 63 per cent in last decade, compared with the previous ten year period, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) analysis released on Thursday. “And more than 75 per cent of ... More >>
Mystery Child Hepatitis Outbreak Passes 1,000 Recorded Cases, Says WHO
Thursday, 14 July 2022, 6:52 am | UN News
In addition to tackling COVID and the monkeypox outbreak, the UN health agency has also been keeping a close eye on the puzzling spread of hepatitis in previously healthy children, which has left dozens needing lifesaving liver transplants. According to ... More >>
Gang Violence In Port-au-Prince Threatens More Than A Million Food-insecure Haitians
Wednesday, 13 July 2022, 5:57 am | UN News
Surging and deadly gang violence in the Haitian capital has contributed to runaway food insecurity for well over one million people there, the UN World Food Programme ( WFP ) said on Tuesday. In addition to being hit hard by the global food and fuel ... More >>
From The Field: 'Bioprospecting'; Cambodia’s Sustainable Gold Rush
Sunday, 10 July 2022, 5:39 am | UN News
Prospecting used to be about digging up gold and other minerals. Today “bioprospecting” is allowing countries to use the natural riches at their disposal, for the production of pharmaceuticals, and other commercially viable products. Cambodia, which has a ... More >>
All Rural Workers Deserve Social Protection Coverage: New ILO Report
Friday, 8 July 2022, 7:24 pm | UN News
Social protection for rural workers “remains a dream”, according to a report launched in Geneva on Thursday by the Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV), part of the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO). This is of particular concern ... More >>
Convergence Of Conflicts, COVID And Climate Crises, Jeopardize Global Goals
Friday, 8 July 2022, 3:54 pm | UN News
Intersecting global crises are threatening the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and impacting food supplies, health, education, and security across countries worldwide, according to a new UN report released on Thursday. The Sustainable Development ... More >>
Greater Democratic Rule Vital To Boost Security In West Africa And The Sahel
Friday, 8 July 2022, 3:53 pm | UN News
Democratic and responsible governance is needed to counter ongoing insecurity in West Africa and the Sahel, the UN Special Representative for the subregion told the Security Council on Thursday. Khatir Mahamat Saleh Annadif was presenting the latest ... More >>
Ukraine Struggling Now, But Winter Will Be Even Worse: UNHCR Chief
Friday, 8 July 2022, 6:56 am | UN News
While the Russian military advance in eastern Ukraine continues to escalate, the UN refugee agency, UNCHR , on Thursday warned that the winter months are very likely to be extremely harsh on millions of people affected by the war. Since the Russian ... More >>
Sri Lanka's Misery Should Be Warning To Us All On Global Food, Fuel And Finance Crisis: UNDP
Friday, 8 July 2022, 6:55 am | UN News
Countries already under pressure from the economic fall-out of the COVID-19 pandemic, risk seeing the same economic turmoil and human misery as Sri Lanka, with the war in Ukraine dragging on, unless the international community agrees to radical financial ... More >>
Mali Improvised Bomb Claims Lives Of Two Egyptian Peacekeepers
Thursday, 7 July 2022, 7:09 am | UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday echoed strong condemnation from the Security Council and elsewhere, of the killing of two more UN peacekeepers in northern Mali. The blue helmets – who were serving with the UN Stabilization Mission ... More >>
‘World Is Failing Adolescent Girls’ Warns UNFPA Chief
Wednesday, 6 July 2022, 7:16 am | UN News
Report Shows Third Of Women In Developing Countries Give Birth In Teen Years Nearly a third of all women in developing countries, start having children at the age of 19 or younger, and nearly half of first births to adolescents, are to children or ... More >>
UN Needs $68.4 Million To Help Central African Republic Where 2.2 Million Are Acutely Food Insecure
Wednesday, 6 July 2022, 7:14 am | UN News
A sharp increase in essential goods in the Central African Republic ( CAR ) linked to war in Ukraine will likely have a devastating impact on the already dire humanitarian situation there in coming weeks, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. ... More >>
