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2030 Development Agenda ‘Fails’ On Racial Equality And Non-discrimination
Wednesday, 6 July 2022, 7:13 am | UN News
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are characterized by a “shallow commitment” to racial justice and equality, an independent UN-appointed rights expert told the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday, ... More >>
More Than 70 Grave Violations Against Children Caught Up In War, Being Recorded Daily: UNICEF
Thursday, 30 June 2022, 7:13 am | UN News
A “staggering” average of 71 verified grave violations a day, are committed against children by parties to conflict in more than 30 settings across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. This is one of the key findings of a new report ... More >>
A Visionary ‘Blue Transformation’ Strategy To Enhance Underwater Food Systems
Thursday, 30 June 2022, 7:11 am | UN News
Record levels of fisheries and aquaculture production are making a critical contribution to global food security, the UN Ocean Conference under way in Lisbon, Portugal, heard on Wednesday. The Conference’s third day, spotlighting the state of the global ... More >>
Internet Shutdowns Impact Human Rights, Economy, And Day To Day Life
Tuesday, 28 June 2022, 7:14 pm | UN News
The dramatic real-life effects of shutdowns of the internet on people’s lives and human rights are vastly underestimated, the UN human rights office warns in a report released on Thursday. When major communication channels and networks are slowed ... More >>
Middle East: Mounting Violence Leaving ‘Scores Of Palestinian And Israeli Casualties’
Tuesday, 28 June 2022, 7:11 pm | UN News
“High level” violence has resulted in “scores of Palestinian and Israeli casualties”, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process told the Security Council on Monday. Speaking via video conference from Jerusalem, Tor Wennesland, expressed ... More >>
Put Women’s Rights ‘Front And Centre’ Of Climate Policies: Bachelet
Tuesday, 28 June 2022, 7:09 pm | UN News
Although climate change threatens everyone, women and girls often suffer its harshest and most violent consequences, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Monday. “While I welcome the international attention on climate change’s impact on women ... More >>
Tackling Marine Pollution: Individual Action, Key To Ocean Restoration
Tuesday, 28 June 2022, 7:05 pm | UN News
On Monday, thousands of people gathered at Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal, for the first day of the long-awaited UN Ocean Conference. Riding on the global momentum generated by the event, experts are pushing for a new international commitment to ... More >>
Guterres Outlines Four Recommendations To Help Us All ‘Save Our Ocean’
Tuesday, 28 June 2022, 7:02 pm | UN News
At the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon on Monday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged the international community to commit and unite around the protection and preservation of our seas. Speaking at the high-level opening of the Conference, Mr. Guterres outlined ... More >>
Life-saving Relief Continues To Reach Quake-hit Eastern Afghanistan
Tuesday, 28 June 2022, 7:00 pm | UN News
Emergency lifesaving aid relief continued to flow into quake-hit eastern Afghanistan on Friday, as UN humanitarians and partners rushed to help the most vulnerable communities. One of the UN teams on the ground, the refugee agency UNHCR , transported tons of ... More >>
Ukraine: Dozens Dead And Injured As UN Condemns ‘utterly Deplorable’ Shopping Centre Attack
Tuesday, 28 June 2022, 7:17 am | UN News
At least ten people have reportedly been killed by what Ukrainian authorities have said was a Russian missile strike on a crowded shopping centre, and attack which the UN condemned on Monday as “utterly deplorable”. At least ten people have ... More >>
Abu Akleh Shooting: Fatal Shot Came From Israeli Forces, Says OHCHR
Monday, 27 June 2022, 7:52 pm | UN News
Israeli forces were behind the fatal shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank - not indiscriminate Palestinian firing - the UN human rights office, OHCHR, alleged on Friday. Ms. Akleh – an experienced television journalist ... More >>
Abu Akleh Shooting: Fatal Shot Came From Israeli Forces, Says OHCHR
Monday, 27 June 2022, 7:52 pm | UN News
Israeli forces were behind the fatal shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank - not indiscriminate Palestinian firing - the UN human rights office, OHCHR, alleged on Friday. Ms. Akleh – an experienced television journalist ... More >>
Ukraine: Russian Nobel Winner Praises UNICEF As ‘Excellent’ Choice To Distribute $103.5 Million Auction Proceeds
Friday, 24 June 2022, 7:04 am | UN News
The Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov who auctioned off his gold medal to raise money for child refugees on Monday, has told UN News that the record-breaking sale of $103.5 million proved that “sometimes humanity can come together, and show ... More >>
Conflict, Drought, Dwindling Food Support, Threatens Lives Of 20 Million In Ethiopia
Friday, 24 June 2022, 7:02 am | UN News
Hunger is tightening its grip on more than 20 million Ethiopians who are facing conflict in the north, drought in the south and dwindling food and nutrition support beginning next month, the UN food relief agency warned on Thursday. “The combination ... More >>
UN Agencies Rush To Aid Afghanistan Following Deadly Quake
Thursday, 23 June 2022, 4:47 pm | UN News
The UN and partners have rushed to support Afghanistan following a devastating earthquake that hit two provinces in the east of the country early on Wednesday morning. At least 1,000 people have been killed, according to media reports, and numbers are ... More >>
UN Food Agency Announces Further Refugee Ration Cuts, In Quest For #ZeroHunger
Tuesday, 21 June 2022, 7:54 pm | UN News
The UN World Food Programme, WFP, said on Monday that it will have no choice but to make further food ration cuts soon for refugees. The cause of the imminent cuts is multiplying humanitarian needs around the world and insufficient funding. This ... More >>
Côte D'Ivoire Welcomes Families Home, As Refugee Status Formally Ends
Tuesday, 21 June 2022, 7:03 am | UN News
The resolution of a civil conflict fuelled-displacement crisis in Côte d'Ivoire, that at its height forced more than 300,000 people to flee to neighbouring countries and beyond, is “a welcome bright spot amid a rising global trend of forced displacement”, ... More >>
Lebanon: $3.2 Billion Plan Launched To Support Local Families And Refugees
Tuesday, 21 June 2022, 7:00 am | UN News
The Lebanese Government, the United Nations and partners on Monday announced a $3.2 billion appeal for the country to address ongoing impacts from the war in neighbouring Syria and the current economic crisis. The 2022 Lebanon Crisis Response Plan (LCRP) ... More >>
‘Militarised Approach’ To Policing Peaceful Protests, Only Increases Risk Of Violence: UN Human Rights Expert
Tuesday, 21 June 2022, 6:49 am | UN News
Civic space is shrinking, together with a rise in human rights violations during peaceful protests worldwide, while governments adopt an increasingly militarised approach to policing demonstrations, said an independent UN human rights expert on ... More >>
Sexual Violence In Conflict ‘Terrorizes Populations, Destroys Lives And Fractures Communities’
Monday, 20 June 2022, 7:14 am | UN News
Sexual violence has become a brutal tactic of warfare and repression that “terrorizes populations, destroys lives and fractures communities,” the UN chief said on Friday. In his message for the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in ... More >>
