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Workers With HIV-AIDS Continue To Face Stigma, Discrimination: ILO
Wednesday, 1 December 2021, 8:33 pm | UN News
“Myths and misconceptions” about HIV and AIDS continue to fuel stigma and discrimination in the workplace, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Tuesday. Despite some improvement in people’s tolerance to the disease in the more than 40 years ... More >>
Series Of Appalling Deadly Attacks On Displaced People In DR Congo
Wednesday, 1 December 2021, 8:32 pm | UN News
The UN refugee Agency, UNHCR, is “appalled by a series of deadly attacks” on displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the agency’s spokesperson told journalists on Tuesday in Geneva. In the latest incident carried ... More >>
COVID-19: WHO’s Tedros Criticizes ‘Blunt’ Omicron Measures
Wednesday, 1 December 2021, 8:26 pm | UN News
The head of the UN health agency has criticized “blunt” and “blanket” measures taken by countries in the past few days to stop the spread of the Omicron variant. In a statement on Tuesday, the World Health Organization Director-General said that ... More >>
Battle To End HIV, COVID, Demands Greater International Solidarity
Wednesday, 1 December 2021, 5:43 pm | UN News
The early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic were “plagued by confusion, fear, isolation, and discrimination” against those infected or at high risk, the President of the UN General Assembly reminded a commemorative meeting on Tuesday marking World AIDS ... More >>
Financing Sustainable Development Needed More Than Ever, Says UN Deputy Chief Mohammed
Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 6:25 pm | UN News
Securing the funding needed for sustainable development by involving as many actors from different sectors as possible, is more urgent than ever, amid a widening “trust deficit” between the haves and the have-nots, the UN Deputy Secretary-General said ... More >>
UN Chief Calls For Nuclear Weapons-free Middle East
Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 7:30 am | UN News
The UN Secretary-General on Monday called on all Middle East States to transform the vision of a region with no nuclear weapons, or other weapons of mass destruction, into a working reality. Antonio Guterres was speaking in New York at the second session ... More >>
Coronavirus Pandemic Could Cost Global Tourism $2 Trillion This Year
Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 7:00 am | UN News
The coronavirus pandemic will likely cost the global tourism sector $2 trillion in lost revenue in 2021, the UN's tourism body said Monday, calling the sector's recovery "fragile" and "slow." According to the latest forecast ... More >>
IOM Scales Up Aid At EU-Belarus Border, As Migrant Hypothermia Deaths Tick Up
Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 6:59 am | UN News
The International Organization for Migration ( IOM ) and partners, are scaling up aid along the border between the European Union and Belarus, amid worsening winter weather, which is leading to rising deaths due to hypothermia among asylum seekers ... More >>
Violations Of Palestinian Rights Puts Two-State Solution At Risk UN Chief Warns
Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 6:56 am | UN News
The situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, continues to pose a significant challenge to international peace and security, United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, said on Monday. In a message to mark International ... More >>
Omicron COVID Variant Underlines Need For Global ‘Pandemic Treaty’
Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 6:54 am | UN News
The emergence of the threatening new Omicron variant shows how important it is for the world to end the current “cycle of panic and neglect” over the COVID-19 pandemic, said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, ... More >>
Still ‘Not Clear’ Whether Omicron COVID Variant Is More Transmissible Or More Severe Than Delta: WHO
Monday, 29 November 2021, 8:24 am | UN News
The World Health Organization published on Sunday an update on the science regarding the new coronavirus variant Omicron which is causing global concern and sparking increasing flight bans on Southern African countries. The experts of the UN health ... More >>
UN Refugee Agency Concerned About Indigenous Venezuelans In Guyana
Saturday, 27 November 2021, 2:18 pm | UN News
One meal a day, no shelter, and no drinking water are only some of the difficult living conditions that indigenous Warao families from Venezuela are facing in remote locations across Guyana, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has warned. More humanitarian ... More >>
WHO Urges Caution Over Travel Bans Linked To New COVID-19 Variant
Saturday, 27 November 2021, 6:36 am | UN News
The UN health agency has urged all countries to adopt a risk-based and scientific approach to travel bans linked to a new COVID-19 variant identified in South Africa and Botswana. The development on Friday came as a World Health Organization ( WHO ... More >>
Iran: Execution Of Juvenile Offender ‘Deeply Alarming And Shocking’
Thursday, 25 November 2021, 4:59 pm | UN News
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Thursday condemned Iran's execution of a young man who was a minor at the time he was charged with committing a crime. Arman Abdolali, 25, is the second juvenile offender to be executed in the country this year. OHCHR ... More >>
Arrested Development And Poverty Take A $57 Billion Economic Toll In Palestine
Thursday, 25 November 2021, 4:58 pm | UN News
Following Israeli closures, restrictions and military operations, the West Bank has suffered two decades of arrested development and poverty, according to a report published on Wednesday by the UN trade and development body, UNCTAD. With an economic ... More >>
COVID-19: European Infection Spike Confirmed, Vaccine Advice For Kids
Thursday, 25 November 2021, 7:58 am | UN News
COVID-19 cases have increased in the last week with 3.6 million infections reported globally, as opposed to the 3.3 million over the previous seven days, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. In its weekly epidemiological update, the UN ... More >>
Antimicrobial Effectiveness Leaning To ‘Tipping Point’ Resistance – FAO
Thursday, 25 November 2021, 7:53 am | UN News
We may soon reach “a tipping point” when antimicrobial resistance (AMR) becomes the leading cause of death – surpassing heart disease and other so-called lifestyle illnesses, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday. The wide ... More >>
Libya At ‘Delicate And Critical Juncture’ Ahead Of Landmark Elections: UN Envoy
Thursday, 25 November 2021, 7:51 am | UN News
24 November 2021 With one month left until elections in Libya, it is important that the international community remains united in support of the process, UN Special Envoy Ján Kubiš told the Security Council on Wednesday. He reported that the political ... More >>
On International Day, UN Chief Says ‘Violence Against Women Is Not Inevitable’
Thursday, 25 November 2021, 7:49 am | UN News
24 November 2021 In a virtual event to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women , commemorated annually on 25 November, UN Women chief Sima Bahous described gender-based violence (GBV) as “a global crisis”. “In ... More >>
Poverty And Violence Push 378,000 Central Americans North Each Year
Wednesday, 24 November 2021, 4:22 pm | UN News
For the past five years, poverty, food insecurity, climate shocks and violence have pushed, on average, some 378,000 Central Americans a year into the United States, according to a new report launched on Tuesday by the UN food relief agency. A joint ... More >>
