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Ukraine: Aid Agencies Step Up Relief Deliveries As Humanitarian Situation Worsens
Wednesday, 20 April 2022, 6:34 pm | UN News
Amidst devastating Russian shelling and attacks on health care facilities and personnel, UN aid agencies said on Tuesday that they continue to mobilize inside Ukraine in an effort to help the country’s most vulnerable people. Seven weeks since the Russian ... More >>
Worsening Drought In Horn Of Africa Puts Up To 20 Million At Risk: WFP
Wednesday, 20 April 2022, 6:33 pm | UN News
Up to 20 million people could go hungry this year as delayed rains worsen extreme drought in the Horn of Africa region amid a shortfall in humanitarian aid, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. Time is fast running out, the UN agency warned, ... More >>
UN Releases $100 Million To Fight Hunger In 6 African Countries And Yemen
Friday, 15 April 2022, 6:29 pm | UN News
The UN has allocated $100 million to fight hunger in Africa and the Middle East as the spillover effects of the war in Ukraine threaten to push millions even closer to famine. The contribution from the Central Emergency Response Fund ( CERF ), announced ... More >>
Yemen: ‘Light At The End Of The Tunnel’ As First Nationwide Truce In Six Years Continues
Friday, 15 April 2022, 6:27 pm | UN News
A UN brokered two-month renewable truce between the warring parties in Yemen is holding, Special Envoy Hans Grundberg told the Security Council on Thursday, providing “light at the end of the tunnel”, and the possibility of a lasting peace. The ... More >>
30,000 Ukrainians Returning Home Every Day, Say Relief Agencies
Friday, 15 April 2022, 6:05 am | UN News
More than 870,000 people who fled abroad since the Russian invasion on 24 February, have now returned to Ukraine, UN humanitarians said in their latest emergency update, amid concerns about deteriorating food security inside the country. Citing the State ... More >>
Eastern Africa: Millions Displaced, Amid Growing Hunger, 'Unprecedented Needs’
Thursday, 14 April 2022, 6:34 pm | UN News
Millions of displaced families across eastern Africa will fall deeper into hunger as food rations dwindle due to humanitarian resources being stretched to the limit as the world grapples with a toxic cocktail of conflict, climate shocks, and COVID-19, ... More >>
Ukraine Conflict Putting Global Trade Recovery At Risk: WTO
Wednesday, 13 April 2022, 7:11 pm | UN News
The war in Ukraine has created immense human suffering but it is also putting the fragile recovery of global trade at risk, and the impact will be felt across the planet, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Tuesday. World merchandise ... More >>
Cyprus: Rights Experts Call For Urgent Solutions For Missing Persons Tragedy
Wednesday, 13 April 2022, 6:53 pm | UN News
A top UN-appointed human rights panel issued an appeal on Tuesday for faster progress towards finding the remains of those who disappeared during deadly violence that split the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, decades ago. The UN Working Group on Enforced ... More >>
Ukraine Resilience-building Programme To Help Most Vulnerable
Tuesday, 12 April 2022, 6:24 pm | UN News
A UN-led development plan for Ukraine launched on Monday, to provide immediate economic help and longer-term assistance to the millions left struggling to meet basic needs, in the wake of the Russian invasion. The UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) aims to ... More >>
Oman Now 100thCountry To Ratify Maritime Labour Convention
Tuesday, 12 April 2022, 6:23 pm | UN News
Oman has become the 100thcountry to ratify a 2006 treaty that protects the rights, pay and conditions of seafarers - a milestone that was commemorated on Monday by a ceremony at the headquarters of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in ... More >>
Respect And Protect Basic Human Rights In Sri Lanka, UN Experts Urge
Saturday, 9 April 2022, 5:02 pm | UN News
Following this week’s crackdown on non-violent demonstrations in Sri Lanka, independent UN human rights experts urged the government on Friday to “ensure that all human rights be respected and protected” and guarantee the fundamental rights of peaceful ... More >>
New COVID Wave A Reminder Pandemic Is ‘far From Over’: Guterres
Saturday, 9 April 2022, 5:01 pm | UN News
Governments and pharmaceutical companies need to work together in a better way, to deliver vaccines “to every person, everywhere” – not simply in the wealthiest nations, said the UN chief on Friday . Secretary-General António Guterres was addressing ... More >>
Rights Chief Highlights Urgent Need For Action Over Thousands Missing In Syria
Saturday, 9 April 2022, 6:09 am | UN News
Twelve years into the war in Syria, thousands of families “remain in the dark” when it comes to the fates of their missing relatives, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet told the General Assembly on Friday. “The scale of this tragedy is daunting, ... More >>
Ukraine War Drives International Food Prices To ‘New All-time High’
Saturday, 9 April 2022, 6:06 am | UN News
Global food prices have reached “a new all-time high,” the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said on Friday, “hitting the poorest the hardest.” “It is now more than two years that the COVID-19 pandemic continues to negatively ... More >>
Ukraine: UN Condemns Deadly Attack On Train Station, Dozens Of Civilians Killed
Saturday, 9 April 2022, 6:04 am | UN News
In eastern Ukraine, a reported Russian missile attack on a railway station that’s killed dozens of civilians including children, has been condemned by the United Nations. Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement , that the strike ... More >>
UN General Assembly Votes To Suspend Russia From The Human Rights Council
Friday, 8 April 2022, 5:40 pm | UN News
The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Thursday calling for Russia to be suspended from the Human Rights Council. The resolution received a two-thirds majority of those voting, minus abstentions, in the 193-member Assembly, with 93 nations voting ... More >>
Roma Rights Advocates Warn Of Rising Hate Speech: Many ‘Don’t Even Know’ They’re Being Racist
Friday, 8 April 2022, 6:26 am | UN News
International Roma Day on 8 April is a key date to mark Romani culture, made more significant in Romania since the passing of last year’s landmark legislation there, to combat hate-speech against the Roma – the first law of its kind in Europe. Nonetheless, ... More >>
Diverse, Inclusive Workplace: ‘Key Driver Of Resilience And Recovery’
Thursday, 7 April 2022, 6:23 pm | UN News
One-in-four people do not feel valued at work, and those who do are mostly in senior positions, according to a new report launched on Wednesday by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Although diverse and inclusive workplaces generate greater productivity, ... More >>
Ukraine: Hundreds More Reach Safety After Fleeing Besieged Mariupol
Thursday, 7 April 2022, 6:22 pm | UN News
In Ukraine, humanitarians said on Wednesday that hundreds of people have managed to reach safety after fleeing Mariupol, where there’s also been condemnation for the killing of Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius, as he tried to escape from ... More >>
Sport Must Show Leadership Amidst Climate Crisis: UN Deputy Chief
Thursday, 7 April 2022, 6:21 pm | UN News
Athletes are among the most influential people on the planet and together with their managers, fans and others involved in organized sport, must contribute to global efforts to combat climate change. That was the message UN Deputy Secretary-General ... More >>
