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Afghanistan: ‘Now Is The Time To Stand As One’, UN Chief Tells Security Council
Tuesday, 17 August 2021, 7:03 am | UN News
As desperate Afghans were trying to escape the Taliban and board planes, during chaotic scenes at Kabul airport on Monday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for international unity on Afghanistan, in a briefing to an emergency session ... More >>
Cote d’Ivoire confirms first Ebola case in 25 years
Tuesday, 17 August 2021, 5:52 am | UN News
A case of Ebola virus has been confirmed in Cote d’Ivoire for the first time since 1994, the country’s Ministry of Health has confirmed. The World Health Organization (WHO) is coordinating the delivery of vaccines to the country. More >>
Afghanistan: Guterres Urges Restraint As Taliban Reach Kabul; UN Security Council Set To Meet Monday
Monday, 16 August 2021, 3:32 pm | UN News
As the crisis in Afghanistan deepens by the hour, with reports that insurgent forces reached the country’s capital, Kabul, earlier on Sunday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged the Taliban and all other parties “to exercise utmost restraint ... More >>
DR Congo: violence linked to clashes over gold
Sunday, 15 August 2021, 5:59 am | UN News
Rival armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are carrying out horrific sexual attacks against women and girls, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) warned on Friday. More >>
Afghanistan crisis: hallmarks of humanitarian catastrophe
Sunday, 15 August 2021, 5:54 am | UN News
Afghanistan is on course to witness its highest ever number of documented civilian casualties in a single year since records began, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday. More >>
WHO urges support for new COVID-19 origins studies
Sunday, 15 August 2021, 5:50 am | UN News
The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged all countries “to put differences aside” in order to speed up efforts to understand where and how the COVID-19 virus started – including the unproven suggestion that it was manufactured in a laboratory. More >>
Afghanistan: UN Chief Urges Taliban To Halt Offensive Immediately, Negotiate ‘In Good Faith’
Saturday, 14 August 2021, 4:45 pm | UN News
The UN Secretary-General on Friday called on Taliban militants to “immediately halt” their offensive against Government forces and return to the negotiating table in good faith, “in the interest of Afghanistan, and its people.” António Guterres ... More >>
Youth Need ‘Seat At The Table’ To Lead Struggle For Better Future: Guterres
Friday, 13 August 2021, 5:21 am | UN News
ICAN/Lucero Oyarzun | The active engagement of youth is central for stable societies and to avert the worst threats to sustainable development, including the impacts of climate change. Young people are on the “frontlines of the struggle to build ... More >>
UN Weather Agency Seeks To Confirm 48.8°C ‘Record’ Heat Spike In Sicily
Friday, 13 August 2021, 5:17 am | UN News
UN weather experts said on Thursday that they’re “actively looking” into a possible record temperature for Continental Europe of 48.8 Celsius (119.8 Fahrenheit) near the town of Syracuse in Sicily, amid devastating wildfires in Mediterranean ... More >>
UNHCR Alarmed Over US ‘Expulsion Flights’ To Southern Mexico
Thursday, 12 August 2021, 4:04 pm | UN News
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) raised concern on Wednesday over a new policy by the United States, using public health orders linked to COVID-19, to expel some asylum-seekers and migrants by flying them to southern Mexico. Calling on the Biden Administration ... More >>
Punishment Of ‘Innocent Civilians’ Through Government Sanctions Must End: UN Experts
Thursday, 12 August 2021, 7:02 am | UN News
Unilateral coercive measures by some governments are denying many people around the world the right to personal development, as well as holding back sustainable national development, four independent UN human rights experts said on Wednesday. ... More >>
Global Climate Objectives Fall Short Without Nuclear Power In The Mix: UNECE
Thursday, 12 August 2021, 7:00 am | UN News
The urgent need to reduce emissions and slow global heating, should involve the roll-out of more nuclear power stations, regional UN energy experts argued in a new briefing on Wednesday. Only weeks before world leaders gather in Glasgow to hammer ... More >>
WHO Announces Three New Drugs For Latest COVID-19 ‘Solidarity’ Clinical Trials
Thursday, 12 August 2021, 6:18 am | UN News
Three new candidate drugs are being tested in the latest phase of global Solidarity clinical trials to find effective treatments against COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday. The therapies — artesunate, imatinib and infliximab ... More >>
UN Rights Chief Condemns Afghanistan Abuses As Taliban Advance Continues
Thursday, 12 August 2021, 5:34 am | UN News
Disturbing reports of Taliban violence against communities now under their control in Afghanistan have been condemned by UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet, who on Tuesday backed a return to peace negotiations in Doha. The High Commissioner for Human Rights ... More >>
Access Restored To Tigray Camps Sheltering Eritrean Refugees
Thursday, 12 August 2021, 5:32 am | UN News
In Ethiopia’s wartorn Tigray region, UN aid workers said on Tuesday that they have reached two refugee camps for Eritrean nationals for the first time since being cut off by fighting last month. UN refugee agency ( UNHCR ) spokesperson, Boris Cheshirkov, ... More >>
Shocking’ Escalation Of Grave Violations Against Children In Afghanistan: UNICEF
Thursday, 12 August 2021, 5:26 am | UN News
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) expressed shock on Monday at the rapid escalation of grave violations against children in Afghanistan, following the deaths of 27 children in the country in the past 72 hours, and 136 who were injured. "The atrocities ... More >>
UN Libya Mission ‘Deeply Concerned’ Over Abduction Of Top Government Staffer
Wednesday, 11 August 2021, 3:51 pm | UN News
The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said on Tuesday that it is “deeply concerned” over the abduction of a senior Government staff member, who disappeared last week after being taken away by unidentified armed men. Rida Faraj Fraitis, is Chief of ... More >>
UK Plan Thwarts Access To Truth Over Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’
Wednesday, 11 August 2021, 9:13 am | UN News
Unsplash/K. Mitch Hodge - The Peace Bridge in Derry, Northern Ireland Two independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday expressed serious concern over a United Kingdom plan to end prosecutions for grave violations committed during ... More >>
Tigray: Intensified Fighting Across Borders ‘disastrous’ For Children
Tuesday, 10 August 2021, 3:47 pm | UN News
UN agencies continue to sound the alarm over the growing “humanitarian catastrophe” in northern Ethiopia, sparked by the conflict in the Tigray region, now in its ninth month. A recent escalation in fighting in Afar and other neighbouring regions, has ... More >>
End Inequalities, Recognize Abuses, UN Chief Says On International Day Of Indigenous People
Tuesday, 10 August 2021, 5:58 am | UN News
OPS Colombia/Karen González Abr | Indigenous authorities in Tarapacá, Colombia, were consulted with before COVID vaccinations began. Although some countries have begun to rectify their “heinous legacy” of discrimination against indigenous ... More >>
