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Polluted Planet: UN Expert Urges Ambitious, Urgent Action To Tackle Human Rights Violations
Friday, 11 March 2022, 7:50 am | UN News
GENEVA (10 March 2022) – As Earth becomes increasingly poisoned by toxic substances and pollution, a UN human rights expert is calling for urgent and ambitious action to curb exposures to the deadly substances, prevent pollution and rehabilitate contaminated ... More >>
WHO Issues New Guidelines On Abortion To Help Deliver Lifesaving Care
Thursday, 10 March 2022, 6:59 pm | UN News
New guidelines on abortion are now available from the World Health Organization (WHO), in a bid to prevent more than 25 million unsafe terminations that happen each year. Craig Lissner, the UN health agency’s acting director for Sexual and Reproductive ... More >>
Fears Grow For Syria Amid Rising Violence, Deepening Humanitarian Crisis
Thursday, 10 March 2022, 6:55 pm | UN News
Top UN-appointed rights investigators on Wednesday urged renewed efforts for a political solution to Syria’s devastating war, which has been marked by an uptick of violence and a deepening humanitarian crisis in recent months. Presenting the latest UN Human ... More >>
UNESCO Bolsters Protection For Ukrainian Heritage Under Fire
Thursday, 10 March 2022, 7:06 am | UN News
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, has said that it is taking measures as best it can, to try and protect some of Ukraine’s priceless heritage from destruction in the face of the Russian invasion, noting that the international ... More >>
Women Building A Sustainable Future: India’s Rural Energy Pioneers
Wednesday, 9 March 2022, 7:29 pm | UN News
A UN project, in association with one of India’s leading clean energy companies, is training women salt farmers in the Indian state of Gujarat to work in the solar power industry, and build a better life. Salt farming in India is hard work. In Gujarat, ... More >>
Ukraine War Now ‘Apocalyptic’ Humanitarians Warn, In Call For Safe Access
Wednesday, 9 March 2022, 7:45 am | UN News
On day 13 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and amid rising numbers of civilian casualties, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday repeated her ceasefire call, with humanitarians on the ground describing conditions as increasingly “apocalyptic”. ... More >>
Women Building A Sustainable Future: Fighting Back The Desert, Amid Niger’s Refugee And Climate Crises
Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 8:25 pm | UN News
Internal displacement, regional instability, and climate change have created a refugee crisis in Niger, but an initiative in the town of Ouallam is showing how different communities can work together to survive, and improve the local environment. In the ... More >>
South Sudan Marks Milestone Amid Stalled Progress, Spreading Violence
Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 7:39 am | UN News
South Sudan’s unity government marked its two-year anniversary against a backdrop of stalled constitutional progress and ongoing cycles of community violence – often fuelled by political groups and armed militias – the senior UN official in the ... More >>
Russia Reduced Genocide Convention 'To Confetti', Ukraine Tells World Court
Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 7:21 am | UN News
Ukraine addressed the UN’s highest court on Monday to reject as a “grotesque lie” Russia’s claims that genocide has been committed in eastern Ukrainian oblasts, or regions, before calling for emergency measures to halt Russian aggression. The ... More >>
Invest In Care Services To Generate Jobs, Support Working Parents: ILO Report
Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 7:18 am | UN News
Greater investment in care services could create nearly 300 million jobs by 2035, the UN’s labour agency, ILO, said in a report published on Monday ahead of International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on 8 May. The move would benefit hundreds of millions ... More >>
Protect Unaccompanied Children Fleeing Ukraine: UN Agency Chiefs
Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 7:16 am | UN News
Unaccompanied and separated children fleeing the conflict in Ukraine must be protected, two senior UN officials said in a joint statement on Monday. Catherine Russell, Executive Director of the UN children’s agency, UNICEF , alongside the UN High Commissioner ... More >>
Two UN Peacekeepers Killed In Mali, Four Wounded
Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 7:14 am | UN News
A convoy from the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA) hit an improvised explosive device north of Mopti on Monday, killing at least two ‘blue helmets’, from Egypt, and wounding four others. In a statement, MINUSMA said the peacekeepers were part ... More >>
Women Building A Sustainable Future: Green Business Begins To Sprout In Ukraine
Monday, 7 March 2022, 7:39 pm | UN News
In Ukraine, home to heavy industry and one of the largest coal mining operations in the world, passionate women entrepreneurs are adopting new approaches to business, putting environment and people first. Valentina and Tetiana Denysenko were forced ... More >>
Women Building A Sustainable Future: The Mexican Violinist Who Saved The Sierra Gorda
Sunday, 6 March 2022, 8:25 pm | UN News
Forty years ago, Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo, known as Pati, left the Mexican city of Querétaro with her family in search of a simple rural life. Instead, she ended up leading and inspiring a group of some 17,000 local environmental activists, devoted ... More >>
Over One Billion Obese People Globally, Health Crisis Must Be Reversed - WHO
Saturday, 5 March 2022, 6:38 am | UN News
On World Obesity Day, marked on Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries to do more to reverse what is a preventable health crisis. According to recent data , more than one billion people worldwide are obese , including 650 million ... More >>
Bachelet Leads Calls For Ceasefire In Ukraine During Urgent Debate At UN Rights Council
Friday, 4 March 2022, 5:25 pm | UN News
Russia’s military attack on Ukraine has “opened a new and dangerous chapter in world history,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet told an urgent debate on Thursday, leading calls for a ceasefire. Convened at the request ... More >>
UN Health Agency Updates Guidelines On COVID-19 Therapeutics
Friday, 4 March 2022, 5:24 pm | UN News
The World Health Organization (WHO), for the first time, included an oral antiviral drug in its COVID-19 treatment guidance. The updated “living guidelines” on related therapeutics now include conditional recommendations on the medication, molnupiravir, ... More >>
Canada Urged To Amend Transgenerational Discriminatory Indian Act
Friday, 4 March 2022, 5:23 pm | UN News
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) called on Thursday, for Canada to fully address long-standing gender-based discrimination in its Indian Act, which continues to affect tens of thousands of descendants of ... More >>
UNEP Combats Pollution, Restores Ozone And Protects Seas – UN Chief Tells 50th Anniversary Session
Friday, 4 March 2022, 7:20 am | UN News
For 50 years, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has offered the world a way forward “based on a vision for a better, healthier Earth built on the pillars of international cooperation,” Secretary-General António Guterres told a landmark special session ... More >>
‘Senseless War’ Forces One Million To Flee Ukraine: UN High Commissioner For Refugees
Friday, 4 March 2022, 7:17 am | UN News
The “senseless war” in Ukraine has forced one million people to flee the country in just seven days, while countless others have been displaced within its borders, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said on Thursday. “I have worked ... More >>
