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Ethiopia: Mass Arbitrary Arrests Target Tigrayans, Says UN Rights Office
Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 8:32 pm | UN News
Over the past week, mass arrests of people reportedly of Tigrayan origin have continued in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa and elsewhere, the UN rights office said on Tuesday. The alert from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ( ... More >>
‘We Cannot Lose Hope’, UN Chief Tells Media Seminar On Peace In The Middle East
Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 8:27 pm | UN News
Sensitizing public opinion to the question of Palestine, and promoting a peaceful settlement to the decades-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, are among the goals of the 2021 UN International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East, ... More >>
Iran Death Penalty Threat For Abortion Unlawful: UN Rights Experts
Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 8:25 pm | UN News
A new Iranian law that raises the prospect of the death penalty for abortion has been condemned by independent human rights experts, who have declared that is in “clear contravention of international law”. In a statement released on Tuesday, ... More >>
Investing In UNRWA Is ‘An Investment In Peace And Hope’
Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 8:22 pm | UN News
At a “critical conference” supporting the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Secretary-General António Guterres outlined on Tuesday, the “essential role” it continues to play in generations of lives. Thanking the Governments of Jordan ... More >>
Climate Action Can Deliver A Sustainable Future For All: UN Deputy Chief
Sunday, 14 November 2021, 6:44 am | UN News
Climate action can be the driver for a green and equitable future for all, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has said at the TED Countdown Summit, urging people everywhere to demand that leaders deliver on their promise to limit global warming. ... More >>
Conviction Of US Journalist Symbolic Of Media Repression In Myanmar: UN Rights Chief
Saturday, 13 November 2021, 5:43 pm | UN News
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday urged authorities in Myanmar to immediately release all journalists who have been jailed for practicing their profession. Rights chief Michelle Bachelet said the conviction and harsh sentencing ... More >>
Syria: Conflict, COVID And Rising Costs, ‘pushing People Beyond Their Limits’
Saturday, 13 November 2021, 5:42 pm | UN News
World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley concluded a three-day visit to Syria on Friday, warning that more people there are in the grips of hunger than at any time during their country’s decade-long conflict. Blaming a deadly ... More >>
Europe Hits Highest Weekly COVID-19 Cases Since Pandemic Began
Saturday, 13 November 2021, 7:28 am | UN News
Almost two million cases of COVID-19 were reported in Europe last week, the most in a single week in that region since the pandemic started, according to the World Health Organization ( WHO ). Almost 27 thousand deaths were reported in the continent ... More >>
Afghanistan: Girls At Increasing Risk Of Child Marriage
Saturday, 13 November 2021, 7:04 am | UN News
The United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) has received credible reports of families in Afghanistan offering daughters as young as 20 days old for future marriage in return for a dowry. In a statement released on Friday, the agency’s Executive ... More >>
COP26: Promises ‘Ring Hollow’ When Fossil Fuels Still Receive Trillions In Subsidies - UN Chief
Friday, 12 November 2021, 7:53 am | UN News
COP26: Promises ‘Ring Hollow’ When Fossil Fuels Still Receive Trillions In Subsidies; UN Chief Calls On Negotiators To Pick Up The Pace Governments need to show the necessary ambition on mitigation, adaptation, and finance in a balanced way, and they can’t ... More >>
Resolve ‘Intolerable’ Belarus-Poland Border Migrant Crisis: UN Rights Chief
Friday, 12 November 2021, 6:39 am | UN News
The UN Human Rights High Commissioner has urged Belarus and Poland to urgently resolve the burgeoning migrant crisis on their mutual border, where thousands of people have gathered in an attempt to enter the European Union (EU). In a statement on Wednesday, ... More >>
One In 10 Children Worldwide Live With Disabilities
Friday, 12 November 2021, 6:38 am | UN News
Nearly 240 million children worldwide, or one in 10, live with disabilities and experience deprivation in indicators such as health, education and protection, according to a new report released by the UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) on Wednesday. The ... More >>
Landmine Casualties ‘Exceptionally High’, Syria And Afghanistan Worst-hit
Friday, 12 November 2021, 6:37 am | UN News
Global casualties from anti-personnel landmines were “exceptionally high” last year, with Syrians and Afghans worst-hit, a UN-backed civil society report said on Wednesday According to Landmine Monitor 2021, the number of victims rose by 20 per ... More >>
Salaries For Afghanistan Health Workers Sends ‘Message Of Hope’ To Millions
Friday, 12 November 2021, 6:32 am | UN News
By the time the Taliban took over Afghanistan in mid-August, at the main hospital in Maidan Shar, a city of 35,000 in the centre of the country, most of the staff had not been paid in months. Essential supplies such as medicine and food were scarce, ... More >>
UN Police ‘Better Placed’ For Today’s Challenges To Peace And Security
Friday, 12 November 2021, 6:30 am | UN News
UN Police (UNPOL) is a key component of peacekeeping, Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix told the Security Council on Thursday, whose officers help guide the UN’s response to challenges facing the thousands of ‘blue helmets’ who serve, through ... More >>
Violence, Insecurity And Climate Change Drive 84 Million People From Their Homes
Friday, 12 November 2021, 6:28 am | UN News
As more people flee violence, insecurity and the effects of climate change, the number forcibly displaced now exceeds 84 million globally, according to new data released on Thursday by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. UNHCR ’s Mid-Year Trends ... More >>
Tedros Calls For New High-level Working Group To Get 40% Vaccinated By Year’s End
Thursday, 11 November 2021, 5:36 pm | UN News
With just seven weeks to go before the end of the year, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) is asking Member States to immediately establish a high-level working group, to reach the target of vaccinating 40% of the world’s population against COVID19, ... More >>
Thousands Flee DR Congo Fighting For Uganda: UNHCR
Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 8:47 pm | UN News
Fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has forced at least 11,000 people to flee to neighbouring Uganda since Sunday night, representing the largest refugee influx in a single day for more than a year, the UN refugee agency, ... More >>
Uphold Safety, Human Rights On Belarus-Poland Border, UN Agencies Urge
Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 8:43 pm | UN News
With news footage showing migrants on the border between Belarus and Poland attempting to dodge teargas and make their way through razor wire, UN agencies called for an “immediate de-escalation”, following weeks of rising tension. Alarmed by the ... More >>
UN Chief Outlines ‘roadmap For Inclusion’ To Address Root Causes Of Conflict
Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 4:52 pm | UN News
Diversity should be viewed as a powerful benefit, rather than a threat, particularly in countries experiencing conflict, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday, during a Security Council debate focused on the issue of inclusion. The ... More >>
