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Women Building A Sustainable Future: The Kenyan Engineer Fighting For Equality
Thursday, 3 March 2022, 8:50 pm | UN News
Norah Magero, a Mechanical Engineer and Renewable Energy Expert from Kenya, is helping communities adapt to the changing climate, in the face of gender discrimination. “I grew up in a society that did not value women. Our rights to education, expression, ... More >>
Ukraine Crisis: UN Agencies Support Rising Tide Of Refugees
Thursday, 3 March 2022, 7:52 am | UN News
The number of people fleeing the Russian onslaught in Ukraine surpassed 874,000 as of Wednesday morning New York time, data from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has revealed. More than half have headed west to Poland, according to a new ... More >>
Ukraine: Oxygen Shortage Putting Lives In Danger
Thursday, 3 March 2022, 7:51 am | UN News
On day seven of the Ukraine crisis, UN-led efforts to ramp up support to the country’s embattled health workers have continued, with the first shipment of lifesaving supplies due to arrive in neighbouring Poland in the coming hours. Initial concerns about ... More >>
Push For ‘More Caring, Thoughtful’ Relationship With Nature: UN Chief
Thursday, 3 March 2022, 7:49 am | UN News
Everyone must commit to preserving the Earth’s “invaluable and irreplaceable wildlife,” the UN chief said on Wednesday in his message for World Wildlife Day. “Each year…we celebrate the beauty and wonder of our planet’s wild plants and ... More >>
Ukraine: $1.7 Billion Appeal Launched To Help Refugee Exodus, Host Countries
Wednesday, 2 March 2022, 6:53 pm | UN News
Rockets have been “raining down” on Ukraine’s cities and hundreds of people have been killed or injured since the Russian military offensive began, the UN Secretary-General said on Tuesday, at the launch of a $1.7 billion flash appeal to provide ... More >>
COVID-19: Germany First To Contribute ‘fair Share’ For Vaccine Equity Push
Wednesday, 2 March 2022, 6:02 pm | UN News
Germany has become the first country to answer a call for wealthy nations to contribute their “fair share” towards ending the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Tuesday. The country has committed to provide $1.22 billion to ... More >>
UN Humanitarians Call On Combatants To Spare Ukraine Civilians As Aid Ramps Up
Wednesday, 2 March 2022, 7:07 am | UN News
Well over 600,000 people have fled Ukraine in under a week, since Russia’s military offensive began, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday, as they issued an appeal to protect civilians from further bloodshed. “We know that children have been killed, we know ... More >>
South Sudan: Condemnation For Attempted Ambush On Food Convoy
Wednesday, 2 March 2022, 7:04 am | UN News
A peacekeeper is in stable condition a day after being shot during an attempted ambush on a UN convoy in South Sudan, the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS, and the World Food Programme (WFP) reported on Tuesday. The interagency convoy of 59 ... More >>
Scrap Harmful Laws That Increase Discrimination, UNAIDS Urges
Wednesday, 2 March 2022, 7:03 am | UN News
Everyone has the right to live a healthy, full, and productive life with dignity, regardless of their HIV or other medical status, the UN agencyleading the fight against HIV/AIDS said on Tuesday, Zero Discrimination Day. “People most ... More >>
IPCC Adaptation Report ‘A Damning Indictment Of Failed Global Leadership On Climate’
Tuesday, 1 March 2022, 8:05 pm | UN News
UN scientists on Monday delivered a stark warning about the impact of climate change on people and the planet, saying that ecosystem collapse, species extinction, deadly heatwaves and floods are among the "unavoidable multiple climate hazards” ... More >>
Nearly Half A Million Have Fled Ukraine, UN Refugee Agency Reports
Tuesday, 1 March 2022, 8:02 pm | UN News
Fighting in Ukraine has so far pushed roughly a half million people across the country's borders, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, reported on Monday. “This is a massive outflow that we’re witnessing, and this has all just happened in the space ... More >>
General Assembly Holds Emergency Special Session On Ukraine
Tuesday, 1 March 2022, 5:52 pm | UN News
As fighting escalates in Ukraine, UN Member States met on Monday for a rare emergency special session of the General Assembly to discuss the crisis. Assembly President Abdulla Shahid underscored that the military offensive launched by Russia five days ... More >>
Concern For Women And Children Caught Up In Ukraine Conflict
Tuesday, 1 March 2022, 5:51 pm | UN News
The intensification of the Russian offensive in Ukraine is having devastating consequences on women and children, senior UN officials have reported. Catherine Russell, the newly appointed Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ), said on ... More >>
Without Climate Action, Extreme Weather Will Trigger Global Humanitarian Needs
Sunday, 27 February 2022, 6:54 am | UN News
The impact of extreme weather on Madagascar is an example of the “runaway humanitarian needs” the world will face, unless it takes action to tackle the climate crisis, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. The warning comes after tropical cyclone ... More >>
UN Condemns Brutal Killing Of Eight Polio Workers In Afghanistan
Sunday, 27 February 2022, 6:50 am | UN News
The United Nations has condemned the killing of eight polio vaccination workers in four locations in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, the first such attacks since nationwide immunization campaigns resumed last November. One member of ... More >>
‘Hot Conflict’ Pushes 12 Million Syrians Into Food Insecurity
Saturday, 26 February 2022, 6:03 pm | UN News
As the Syrian war has driven poverty and hunger to levels higher than at any previous point, UN SpecialEnvoy Geir Pedersen told the Security Council on Friday that he would continue to focus on engaging the parties to bring an end to the protracted ... More >>
Russia Blocks Security Council Action On Ukraine
Saturday, 26 February 2022, 6:02 pm | UN News
Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Friday that would have demanded that Moscow immediately stop its aggression against Ukraine and withdraw all troops, a move several Council members said was deplorable, but inevitable. While 11 of the ... More >>
‘Political Impasse’ Hampering Change And Reform In Iraq
Friday, 25 February 2022, 5:10 pm | UN News
Political leaders in Iraq must urgently overcome their divisions and work for the good of the people, the top UN official in the country told the Security Council on Thursday. Special Representative Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert reported that four ... More >>
France Violated Rights Of French Children Detained In Syrian Camps
Friday, 25 February 2022, 5:09 pm | UN News
France has violated the rights of French children detained for years in camps in northeast Syria by failing to repatriate them, the UN Child Rights Committee said in findings issued on Thursday. The Committee had considered three cases filed by ... More >>
Ukraine: Humanitarians Fear ‘Devastating’ Consequences
Friday, 25 February 2022, 6:36 am | UN News
Amid reports on Thursday that people were fleeing en masse from the Ukrainian capital of Kiev following Russia’s so-called “special military operation,” UN humanitarians warned of the “devastating” consequences of military ... More >>
