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Yemeni Humanitarian Organization Wins Nansen Refugee Award
Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 8:44 pm | UN News
The Jeel Albena Association for Humanitarian Development, a Yemeni humanitarian organization that has supported tens of thousands of people caught up in the country’s conflict, is the winner of the 2021 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award. UN High Commissioner ... More >>
New Approach Needed To Make Digital Data Flow Beneficial For All
Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 8:42 pm | UN News
The world needs a new approach to allow as many people as possible to access digital data across borders, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said on Wednesday. This should help maximize development gains and ensure that they are equitably ... More >>
COVID-19 Caused ‘Shocking’ Inequalities: Human Rights Chief Bachelet
Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 8:41 pm | UN News
The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has caused and perpetuated “truly shocking” inequality that has affected the world’s most vulnerable individuals, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday, in a call for greater coronavirus vaccine solidarity and ... More >>
Food Waste: A Global Problem That Undermines Healthy Diets
Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 8:40 pm | UN News
A lack of food, hunger and malnutrition affect every country in the world, the UN said on Tuesday, in an urgent appeal for action to reduce the amount of food that’s wasted. The call comes as the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) said that ... More >>
Guterres Calls For Accelerated Action On Jobs, Poverty Eradication
Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 8:38 pm | UN News
Almost two years into the COVID-19 crisis, a huge divergence in the recovery is undermining global trust and solidarity, according to a new policy brief on jobs and poverty eradication , outlined by UN chief, António Guterres on Tuesday. The ... More >>
New Global Meningitis Strategy Aims To Save 200,000 Lives A Year
Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 8:37 pm | UN News
More than 200,000 lives could be saved annually if the goals of a new global strategy to defeat meningitis are achieved, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. The first-ever roadmap to defeat bacterial meningitis, aims to reduce deaths by 70 ... More >>
Yemen: Endless Suffering Of Children Continues Due To War, Aid Crisis
Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 8:35 pm | UN News
The Yemen conflict killed or maimed 2,600 children as hostilities intensified in 2019 and 2020; that’s according to a new report of the UN Secretary-General on Children and Armed conflict in the country. Published on Monday, the report detailed ... More >>
Now Is The Time To Push For Political Resolution In Syria: UN Envoy
Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 5:07 pm | UN News
Following a decade of appalling suffering and losses in Syria, and amid a current period of relative calm, now is the time to push for a political process to end the fighting, UN Special Envoy Geir Pedersen told the Security Council on Tuesday. “The ... More >>
DR Congo: Abuse Allegations Amid Ebola Outbreak ‘A Sickening Betrayal Of The People We Serve’
Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 5:04 pm | UN News
Sexual abuse and exploitation allegedly carried out by World Health Organization (WHO) staff during the UN health agency’s response to an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is“a sickening betrayal of the people ... More >>
DPRK Says It Will ‘respond Willingly’ If US Abandons ‘Hostile Policy’
Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 5:19 pm | UN News
The Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the United Nations, Kim Song, said that if the United States “shows its bold decision to give up its hostile policy”, his country is “prepared to respond willingly ... More >>
‘Time To Rethink, Transform, And Safely Restart Tourism’, Says UN Chief
Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 7:57 am | UN News
Tourism “touches almost every part of our economies and societies”, enabling the historically marginalized, and “those at risk of being left behind, to benefit from development”, declared UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday, marking ... More >>
Iran Nuclear Programme At ‘Critical Point’, Israeli Prime Minister Warns
Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 7:56 am | UN News
With Iran’s nuclear programme at a “watershed moment”, the country must be stopped from acquiring a nuclear weapon, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday in his inaugural speech to the UN General Assembly. Iran’s “great goal” ... More >>
Yemen Asks International Community To Exert Pressure On Houthi Coup Leaders And Their Sponsors To ‘End Bloodshed’
Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 7:55 am | UN News
The war in Yemen has caused a human catastrophe, torn society apart, and triggered “waves of mass displacement, repression and enforced disappearance”, the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs said on Monday, the final day of the UN General Assembly’s ... More >>
Security Council Marks 25th Anniversary Of Test Ban Treaty With Call For Nuclear Weapons-free World
Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 7:53 am | UN News
The Security Council on Monday marked the 25th anniversary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty , with calls for its entry into force and the elimination of nuclear weapons everywhere. Speaking at the event, the Executive Secretary of ... More >>
WHO Backs Regeneron COVID-19 Drug Cocktail - With Equal Access, Price Cut
Sunday, 26 September 2021, 7:03 am | UN News
The Regeneron antibody drug cocktail – casirivimab and imdevimab – has been added to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) list of treatments for COVID-19 patients, the UN agency said on Friday, before underscoring the need for lower prices ... More >>
Cyprus President Determined To Get Negotiation With Turkey Process Back On Track
Sunday, 26 September 2021, 7:01 am | UN News
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades told UN Member States on Friday that he is determined “to set the negotiation process” with Turkey “back on track”, on the basis of the UN framework and the agreement reached in 2019. Cyprus has been divided for ... More >>
Afghanistan: Girls’ Education Must Be A Given, Urges Deputy UN Chief
Sunday, 26 September 2021, 6:59 am | UN News
Ensuring all Afghan girls can be educated must be “a zero condition” for the Taliban, before international recognition of their de facto authority, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said on Friday. Ms. Mohammed was speaking during ... More >>
With Region ‘at A Crossroads’, Palestinian President Calls On UN’s Guterres To Convene International Peace Conference
Sunday, 26 September 2021, 6:57 am | UN News
The President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas on Friday called on the UN Secretary-General to convene an international peace conference and said that to ensure that this initiative is not open-ended, Israel must withdraw from the West Bank, ... More >>
South Sudan ‘Determined To Never Go Back To War’
Saturday, 25 September 2021, 5:52 pm | UN News
South Sudan is “ready to turn a new page” towards greater peace, development and prosperity, Vice-President Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior said in her speech in the UN General Assembly on Friday. A decade after gaining independence from Sudan, the ... More >>
South Sudan Plagued By Violence And Corruption, Human Rights Council Hears
Friday, 24 September 2021, 6:30 am | UN News
South Sudan continues to be “plagued” by violence and corruption, the Human Rights Council heard on Thursday, jeopardizing the young nation’s efforts to establish lasting peace and put it on the road towards sustainable development. Delivering ... More >>
