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South Sudan: Senior UN Official Condemns Killing Of Humanitarian Worker
Wednesday, 22 December 2021, 6:31 am | UN News
The UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan has strongly condemned the killing of a UN-contracted aid worker on Sunday, that also left another injured, after the convoy they were travelling in came under attack. In a press release issued on Monday, ... More >>
South Sudan: Senior UN Official Condemns Killing Of Humanitarian Worker
Wednesday, 22 December 2021, 6:30 am | UN News
The UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan has strongly condemned the killing of a UN-contracted aid worker on Sunday, that also left another injured, after the convoy they were travelling in came under attack. In a press release issued on Monday, ... More >>
Lives On The Line As UN And Partners Launch 2022 Humanitarian Plan For Somalia
Tuesday, 21 December 2021, 7:57 pm | UN News
Roughly 7.7 million people in Somalia will need assistance and protection in 2022, a 30 per cent rise in just one year, the UN and partners said on Monday, launching a nearly $1.5 billion Humanitarian Response Plan ( HRP ) for the country. The funding ... More >>
UN Humanitarians Aid Philippines Response To Super Typhoon Rai
Tuesday, 21 December 2021, 6:50 am | UN News
Reports of “utter devastation” caused by Super Typhoon Rai have continued to come in from the Philippines, where the UN is helping respond to urgent needs. In an update posted online early on Monday, the top UN humanitarian coordinator in the ... More >>
Afghanistan Economy In ‘Freefall’, Threatening To Take Entire Population With It
Monday, 20 December 2021, 6:24 am | UN News
Afghanistan’s economy is in “free fall”, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator told a special meeting on Sunday, warning that if decisive and compassionate action is not taken immediately, it may “pull the entire population with it”. Speaking ... More >>
In A World Of Choices, ‘Let Us Choose Peace’, Urges UN Chief
Monday, 20 December 2021, 6:09 am | UN News
Secretary-General António Guterres received the Lamp of Peace award on Saturday, a major honour from the Catholic Church, which he said recognizes the work of UN personnel “striving for peace around the world”. Reminding that after the horrors ... More >>
Cameroon: Intercommunal Clashes Continue To Displace Thousands
Saturday, 18 December 2021, 6:52 am | UN News
Intercommunal clashes that erupted in Cameroon’s Far North region over the past two weeks have driven at least 100,000 people from their homes, although the actual number may be much higher, UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said on Friday. ... More >>
UN Chief: ‘We Cannot Defeat A Pandemic In An Uncoordinated Way’
Friday, 17 December 2021, 5:21 pm | UN News
Arguing that the world “cannot defeat a pandemic in an uncoordinated way”, the UN Secretary-General said on Thursday that countries “must take concrete action in the coming days” to vaccinate 40 per cent of the world’s population by the ... More >>
Morocco’s Extradition Of Uyghur Asylum Seeker To China Could Lead To Serious Rights Violations, Argue UN Experts
Friday, 17 December 2021, 5:19 pm | UN News
Four UN independent human rights experts called on Thursday for Morocco to reverse its decision to extradite a Uyghur Muslim to China as his return would place him under threat of serious human rights violations. If he is made to return, human rights ... More >>
Democratic Republic Of The Congo Declares Ebola Outbreak Over
Friday, 17 December 2021, 7:16 am | UN News
The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu Province that began in October, is officially over, national health authorities announced this Thursday. The end of the outbreak, the second in 2021 , was declared ... More >>
Venezuela Violated Jurist’s Rights, UN Human Rights Committee Says
Thursday, 16 December 2021, 5:37 pm | UN News
Venezuela violated a jurist’s right to be tried by an independent tribunal and his right to the presumption of innocence, the UN Human Rights Committee said on Wednesday. In the decision , the Committee requested that Venezuela declare the criminal ... More >>
UN Agency Begins COVID Vaccine Rollout For 7,500 Stranded Migrants In Yemen
Thursday, 16 December 2021, 7:20 am | UN News
The International Organization for Migration ( IOM ) has begun a COVID-19 vaccination campaign for migrants stranded in Yemen. The goal is to inoculate around 7,500 people at its Migrant Response Points in Aden and Ma’rib. IOM ’s Chief of Mission, Christa ... More >>
COVID Cases Surging In Africa At Fastest Rate This Year, But Deaths Remain Low
Wednesday, 15 December 2021, 7:19 am | UN News
An 83 per cent surge in COVID-19 cases during the past week in Africa, driven by the Delta and Omicron variants, is causing fewer deaths than previous spikes, the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed on Tuesday, but more waves could be on the ... More >>
38 Record Arctic Temperature Confirmed, Others Likely To Follow: WMO
Wednesday, 15 December 2021, 7:18 am | UN News
A new and disturbing high temperature record for the Arctic of 38 degrees Celsius, or just over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, was confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Tuesday. Worryingly, the temperature reading taken last June in the Siberian ... More >>
Investing $1 Per Person Annually Could Save 7 Million Lives In Low, Lower-middle Income Nations
Tuesday, 14 December 2021, 5:11 pm | UN News
A new World Health Organization (WHO) report shows that close to seven million deaths could be prevented by 2030, if low and lower-middle income countries were to make an additional investment of less than a dollar per person each year, in the prevention ... More >>
New Platform For Childhood Cancer Medicines Counters ‘unacceptable Imbalance’ In Survival Rates
Tuesday, 14 December 2021, 5:10 pm | UN News
A UN-backed initiative announced on Monday aims to ensure children with cancer living in low and middle-income countries have uninterrupted access to affordable, safe and effective medicines. The Global Platform for Access to Childhood Cancer Medicines, ... More >>
Remember The Rohingya ‘forced To Run For Their Lives’
Tuesday, 14 December 2021, 5:09 pm | UN News
The world must not forget the roughly one million Rohingya from Myanmar “forced to run for their lives from the military’s genocidal attack against them”, an independent UN human rights expert said on Monday, beginning his first mission to ... More >>
More Than Half A Billion Pushed Into Extreme Poverty Due To Health Costs
Tuesday, 14 December 2021, 7:18 am | UN News
The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to halt two decades of global progress towards Universal Health Coverage, according to reports released on Sunday from the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank, which reveal more than half a billion people are being pushed ... More >>
Mexico: With Scores Killed In Truck Crash, UN Urges States To Agree 'controlled' Migration
Saturday, 11 December 2021, 5:21 pm | UN News
Despite repeated calls for concrete international action to reduce the tragic death toll of migrants, dozens were killed in Mexico when a crowded truck overturned in Chiapas on Thursday night, the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) ... More >>
Rights Experts Appeal For Greater Civil Society Protections, Amid Rising Repression
Saturday, 11 December 2021, 5:20 pm | UN News
Greater protection is needed for civil society representatives who are increasingly being targeted in repressive and life-threatening environments, UN and regional human rights experts said in a joint declaration published on Friday. They urged governments ... More >>
