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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 >>
UN Raises Alarm Over ‘continuing’ Expulsions Of Asylum Seekers From Libya
Saturday, 11 December 2021, 5:19 pm | UN News
Asylum-seekers and other migrants continue to be forcefully expelled fromLibya, raising concerns at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ( OHCHR ). Speaking to journalists in Geneva, Spokesperson Rupert Colville, ... More >>
Rights Abuses In Myanmar ‘Deepening On An Unprecedented Scale’
Saturday, 11 December 2021, 7:38 am | UN News
More than 10 months since Myanmar's military seized power, the country’s human rights situation is deepening on an unprecedented scale, the UN rights office, OHCHR, has warned. In a strongly worded statement on Friday, OHCHR said that it was “appalled ... More >>
Climate Change Fuels Violence And Mass Displacement In Cameroon
Saturday, 11 December 2021, 7:36 am | UN News
A flare-up in intercommunal fighting in northern Cameroon has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and brought a halt to aid operations there, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday. The development is just the latest episode ... More >>
‘Genocide Remains A Very Real Threat’, Guterres Warns
Friday, 10 December 2021, 9:05 pm | UN News
Genocide “remains a very real threat” around the world, said the UN chief on Thursday, marking the UN International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of theVictims of the Crime of Genocide, and of the Prevention of this Crime . “The international ... More >>
Persecution Of Parliamentarians Reaches ‘All-time High’
Friday, 10 December 2021, 9:04 pm | UN News
Political instability is a key factor behind new data revealed on Thursday which shows that persecution of Members of Parliament (MPs) worldwide, has reached a record high. The annual figures were released by UN partner the Inter-Parliamentary Union, ... More >>
Land And Water Ecosystems, ‘Stressed To A Critical Point’
Friday, 10 December 2021, 9:03 pm | UN News
Land and water resources are “stressed to a critical point”, following significant deterioration over the past decade, according to a major new report released on Thursday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ). Entitled, State of the World’s ... More >>
$1.79 Billion Needed To Help Venezuelan Refugees And Migrants
Friday, 10 December 2021, 8:56 pm | UN News
The increasing needs of refugees and migrants from Venezuela have worsened with the COVID-19 pandemic, say UN rights experts. The number of Venezuelans worldwide who’ve gone on the run has now topped six million, with the vast majority hosted ... More >>
Illegal Bets Add Up To 1.7 Trillion Dollars Each Year: New UN Report
Friday, 10 December 2021, 8:54 pm | UN News
Up to $1.7 trillion is estimated to be wagered on illicit betting markets each year, according to a new report released on Thursday by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime ( UNODC ). The publication, the first-ever Global Report on Corruption in Sport, ... More >>
Human Rights Day: Rebuild Trust, Expand Freedoms, Restore Equality
Friday, 10 December 2021, 5:29 pm | UN News
Despite significant progress since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 73 years ago, the COVID pandemic has “fed a frightening rise in inequalities”, and laid bare “many of our failures to consolidate the advances ... More >>
WHO: Omicron Could Have ‘Major Impact’, But No Definitive Answers Yet
Thursday, 9 December 2021, 8:55 pm | UN News
Features of the new COVID-19 variant Omicron, including the extent to which it will spread, and the sheer number of mutations, suggest that it could have a major impact on the course of the pandemic, but it’s still too early to say for sure. That was ... More >>
UN Emergency Response Fund Provides ‘Spark Of Hope’ For Shared Humanity
Thursday, 9 December 2021, 8:54 pm | UN News
Fast and flexible, the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) was set up to promote swift, coordinated action in humanitarian crises, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator told a High-level Pledging Event on Wednesday, adding: “It has more than fulfilled ... More >>
UN’s Truth-teller On Racism, Xenophobia And Intolerance Sees Signs Of Hope, Amid COVID Quagmire And Rising Hate Speech
Thursday, 9 December 2021, 8:52 pm | UN News
She is outspoken, candid, and speaks truth to power. She is known to lecture governments and tell them how to improve their track record on xenophobia, racism, racial discrimination, and all forms of intolerance. Tendayi Achiume is the half-Zambian, half-Zimbabwean ... More >>
UNHCR Staff Members Wounded In DR Congo, UN Chief Calls For Full Investigation
Thursday, 9 December 2021, 5:18 pm | UN News
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Wednesday expressed outrage over an attack on a convoy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in which one of its vehicles was hit, wounding three staff members. Unidentified attackers opened fire on the ... More >>
