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Hunger In Latin America: Whole Continent Is On The Move, Warns WFP
Wednesday, 15 June 2022, 6:08 am | UN News
Ever greater numbers of vulnerable people are risking their lives on dangerous migration routes in Latin America, forced to move by the global food security crisis that’s been made worse by spiralling inflation linked to the war in Ukraine, the UN World ... More >>
Ukraine And Rising Global Insecurity, Test For Us All, Says UN Rights Chief
Tuesday, 14 June 2022, 6:24 pm | UN News
War in Ukraine continues to cause mayhem and “destroy the lives of many”, and it is everyone’s responsibility to limit the global food, fuel and financial crisis” that it has sustained, the UN’s top rights official told the Human Rights Council ... More >>
Pioneering Namibia MP, Indonesia Family Planning Board, Win 2022 UN Population Award
Tuesday, 14 June 2022, 7:02 am | UN News
The UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, announced on Monday the winners of it’s 2022 UN Population Award, with the individual prize going to a young trailblazing parliamentarian from Namibia, while the institutional award went ... More >>
Death Sentence For Ukraine Foreign Fighters Is A War Crime: UN Rights Office
Saturday, 11 June 2022, 2:04 pm | UN News
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Friday condemned the death sentence handed down to three foreign fighters in Ukraine by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. “Such trials against prisoners of war amount to a war crime,” ... More >>
Brazil Urged To Step Up Search For Missing Journalist And Indigenous Activist
Saturday, 11 June 2022, 2:03 pm | UN News
Authorities in Brazil must step up efforts to find a British journalist and an indigenous rights activist who disappeared nearly a week ago in a dangerous remote area of the Amazon, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday. Dom Phillips, a regular ... More >>
World Must ‘Speed Up’ Efforts To End AIDS Pandemic By 2030
Saturday, 11 June 2022, 1:55 pm | UN News
To end AIDS, beat COVID-19 and “stop the pandemics of the future”, the world needs to ensure global access to lifesaving health technologies, the UN Chef de Cabinet has told a meeting of the General Assembly to review progress. The AIDS pandemic ... More >>
World’s Most Vulnerable Now Paying Even More, For Less Food: FAO
Friday, 10 June 2022, 6:18 am | UN News
Countries are expected to spend a staggering $1.8 trillion importing food they need this year; this would be a new world record but worryingly, it’s going to buy them less food, not more. That’s according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ... More >>
Five Countries Elected To Serve On UN Security Council
Friday, 10 June 2022, 6:15 am | UN News
Five countries have been elected to serve as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council following a vote in the General Assembly on Thursday. Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland will join the UN body responsible for the maintenance ... More >>
Ukraine: WFP Teams Up With Uber, In Boost For Pinpoint Aid Deliveries
Thursday, 9 June 2022, 7:37 pm | UN News
If you’re a Ukrainian living in a hard-to-reach part of a city under fire, the chances of the UN being able to get lifesaving aid to you and your family are improving, thanks to an innovative partnership announced on Wednesday, between the UN World ... More >>
Monkeypox Becoming Established In Non-endemic Countries Warns Tedros; Calls For More Testing, Vaccines To End COVID
Thursday, 9 June 2022, 5:34 pm | UN News
The World Health Organization (WHO) chief said on Wednesday that monkeypox infections in non-endemic countries have passed the 1,000 mark and the risk of it becoming established in some is “real”. At a press conference in Geneva updating on both the current ... More >>
Terrorist Groups ‘exploiting Power Vacuums’, UN Chief Warns
Thursday, 9 June 2022, 5:33 pm | UN News
While the number of deaths from terrorism has declined, the overall threat is far from over, particularly in Africa, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in New York on Wednesday. Mr. Guterres was addressing the latest meeting of the UN Global ... More >>
Act Now To End Food, Energy And Finance Crisis, Guterres Urges World Leaders
Thursday, 9 June 2022, 6:26 am | UN News
Ripple effects from the war in Ukraine have generated a severe cost-of-living crisis which no country or community can escape, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday at a press conference to launch the latest report on the conflict’s ... More >>
‘Revitalize Our Seas’ UN Chief Urges On World Oceans Day
Thursday, 9 June 2022, 6:24 am | UN News
Ensuring a healthy and productive ocean that serves the whole planet, is a “collective responsibility” that can only be fulfilled by working together, the UN chief told an celebratory event marking World Oceans Day on Wednesday. In his message , Secretary-General ... More >>
Nigeria: Guterres Condemns ‘Heinous’ Church Attack Which Left Dozens Dead
Wednesday, 8 June 2022, 6:55 am | UN News
The UN Secretary-General has condemned “in the strongest terms” a brutal attack on a Catholic church in southwest Nigeria at the weekend, which left at least 50 people dead and wounded dozens more. In a statement issued by his spokesperson, António ... More >>
Solidarity, Sustainability, Science, Will Guide New General Assembly President’s Agenda
Wednesday, 8 June 2022, 6:54 am | UN News
A veteran Hungarian diplomat was appointed President of the forthcoming session of the UN General Assembly during an official ceremony in New York on Tuesday. Ambassador Csaba Kőrösi, Director of Environmental Sustainability at the Office of the President ... More >>
Horn Of Africa Braces For ‘Explosion Of Child Deaths’ As Hunger Crisis Deepens
Wednesday, 8 June 2022, 6:52 am | UN News
An “explosion of child deaths” is likely and imminent in the Horn of Africa unless the international community takes immediate action to prevent a new hunger disaster, UN humanitarians warned on Tuesday. To illustrate continuing deep ... More >>
Bangladesh: ILO Calls For Workplace Safety Review Following Deadly Fire
Tuesday, 7 June 2022, 7:39 pm | UN News
A fire and explosion in southeastern Bangladesh over the weekend which left more than 40 dead, has prompted the UN’s labour agency, ILO, to urge workplaces throughout the country to address safety shortcomings. ILO expressed its deep sadness over the ... More >>
‘We Can Do Better, We Must’ Declares Departing UN Climate Change Chief, As COP27 Looms Over Horizon
Tuesday, 7 June 2022, 7:38 pm | UN News
The annual UN Climate Change Conference in the German city of Bonn began on Monday, designed to lay the groundwork for a successful COP27, due to take place in the Egyptian coastal resort of Sharm-el-Sheikh, in November. Governments are meeting for the first ... More >>
Reports Of Sexual Violence In Ukraine Rising Fast, Security Council Hears
Tuesday, 7 June 2022, 5:36 pm | UN News
Allegations of sexual violence by Russian troops in Ukraine are mounting, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Monday, expressing regret over a stark discrepancy between that painful reality, and the global community’s ambition to end the use ... More >>
Ukraine: After 100 Days Of War, UN Works To Free Up Vital Food And Fertilizer Exports
Saturday, 4 June 2022, 12:27 pm | UN News
One hundred days since the 24 February Russian invasion of Ukraine, UN humanitarians on Friday issued a fresh alert about the enormous needs there, as the Organization has continued to push to secure food and fertilizer exports from Ukraine and Russia, ... More >>
