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Deaths Soar On Perilous Maritime Migration Routes To Europe
Thursday, 15 July 2021, 4:19 pm | UN News
Deaths of migrants travelling by dangerous sea routes to Europe have soared in the first six months of the year. At least 1,146 people died attempting to reach Europe by boat from January to June, the UN migration agency, IOM said on Wednesday. That’s ... More >>
UN Chief Says Race To Reach SDGs ‘Can And Must’ Be Turned Around
Wednesday, 14 July 2021, 4:06 pm | UN News
The COVID pandemic has taken four million lives, devastated the global economy, pushed a further 124 million people into extreme poverty and continues to inflict profound suffering – dramatically impacting progress towards the Sustainable Development ... More >>
Afghanistan: 270,000 Newly Displaced This Year, Warns UNHCR
Wednesday, 14 July 2021, 6:16 am | UN News
The worsening security situation across Afghanistan in the wake of foreign troop withdrawal and Taliban advances, has forced an estimated 270,000 from their homes since January, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reported on Tuesday , bringing the total ... More >>
UN Appeals For Faster Passage For Aid Convoys To Ethiopia’s Tigray
Wednesday, 14 July 2021, 6:04 am | UN News
UN humanitarians appealed on Tuesday for far quicker access to Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, after the first aid trucks in days to reach the local capital, Mekelle, encountered multiple checks delaying their arrival. Unobstructed aid deliveries are ... More >>
Countries Urged To Reopen Classrooms, Assess Pandemic-related Learning Loss
Wednesday, 14 July 2021, 6:01 am | UN News
Around one in three countries are not yet implementing remedial programmes to help students catch up on their learning, in the wake of school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two UN agencies and partners said in a report issued on Tuesday. The finding ... More >>
‘Tremendously Off Track’ To Meet 2030 SDGs: UN Chief
Tuesday, 13 July 2021, 3:44 pm | UN News
Between 720 and 811 million people in the world faced hunger in 2020 – some 161 million more than for 2019 – the UN Secretary-General said on Monday; “new, tragic data”, which indicates the world is “tremendously off track” to achieve the ... More >>
COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Doses As Delta Variant Rips Around The World Shows ‘Disappointing Inequality’: WHO
Tuesday, 13 July 2021, 6:21 am | UN News
The COVID-19 Delta variant is travelling around the world at a “scorching pace” driving a new spike in cases and deaths, but it’s exposing a ‘hugely uneven and inequitable’ global gap in vaccine supply, the head of the World Health Organization ... More >>
Conflict, Climate Change, COVID, Forces More People Into Hunger
Tuesday, 13 July 2021, 6:19 am | UN News
Global hunger levels have skyrocketed because of conflict, climate change and the economic impact of COVID-19; and one in five children around the world is stunted, UN agencies warned on Monday. New data that represents the first comprehensive global ... More >>
Child Mental Health Crisis ‘Magnified’ By COVID, Warns UN Chief
Saturday, 10 July 2021, 6:05 am | UN News
Half of the world’s children experience violence on and offline in some form every year, with “devastating and life-long consequences” for their mental health, the UN chief warned a symposium on the issue on Thursday. In a video address to an ... More >>
New UN Report Reveals Impact Of COVID On Human Trafficking
Saturday, 10 July 2021, 6:02 am | UN News
A new study released on Thursday by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) illustrates the devastating impact of COVID-19 on victims and survivors of human trafficking and highlights the increased targeting and exploitation of children during the course ... More >>
Syria: UN Chief Welcomes Security Council Extension Of Vital Cross-border Aid Operation
Saturday, 10 July 2021, 5:58 am | UN News
The UN chief has welcomed a decision on Friday by the Security Council to extend the UN cross-border aid operation in northwest Syria for another 12 months, providing a lifeline for more than 3.4 million people in need, including some one million children. ... More >>
A Third Of Haiti’s Children In Urgent Need Of Emergency Aid: UNICEF
Saturday, 10 July 2021, 5:57 am | UN News
Nearly a third of all children in Haiti – numbering around 1.5 million - are in urgent need of emergency relief due to rising violence, insufficient access to clean water, health and nutrition, said the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF on Friday. Amid ... More >>
Time Running Out For Countries On Climate Crisis Front Line
Friday, 9 July 2021, 6:44 am | UN News
The world’s running out of time to limit global temperature rise to below two degrees Celsius, a matter of life or death for climate vulnerable countries on the front line of the crisis, the UN Secretary General reiterated on Thursday. Speaking ... More >>
COVID Death Toll Passes 4 Million: Global Vaccine Plan Essential, Declares Guterres
Thursday, 8 July 2021, 3:53 pm | UN News
The global death toll due to COVID-19 officially passed four million late on Wednesday, marking yet another “grim milestone” and underlining the urgent need for the world to put a Global Vaccine Plan in place to get the pandemic under control, said ... More >>
COVID Variants ‘Winning The Race Against Vaccines’ Warns WHO Chief
Thursday, 8 July 2021, 6:19 am | UN News
Variants like Delta are “currently winning the race against vaccines” said the World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday, pinning the blame squarely on a lack of equitable vaccine production and distribution. During ... More >>
UN Voices Deep Concern Over Reported Deaths Of Protesters In Kingdom Of Eswatini
Thursday, 8 July 2021, 6:17 am | UN News
The eruption of violence in the Kingdom of Eswatini in recent days is “deeply concerning”, amid reports that dozens of people have been killed or injured during protests calling for democratic reforms, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said ... More >>
Equitable Distribution Of Vaccines, Equipment Only Way Out Of Pandemic: WHO Chief
Thursday, 8 July 2021, 6:15 am | UN News
Equitable distribution of equipment and medicines to fight COVID-19 is the only way out of the global crisis, the head of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) said on Tuesday, in remarks to a meeting of the advisory group making the case for investing ... More >>
South Sudan: UNICEF Warns Of ‘Desperation And Hopelessness’ For Children 10 Years After Independence
Thursday, 8 July 2021, 6:14 am | UN News
Ten years after South Sudan achieved independence, more children there are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance than ever before, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF , said on Tuesday. In a report published ahead of the country’s milestone anniversary ... More >>
Sustainable Development Report Shows Devastating Impact Of COVID, Ahead Of ‘Critical’ New Phase
Thursday, 8 July 2021, 6:13 am | UN News
The world was not on track to meet the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) before COVID-19 struck, and now the challenge has been magnified many times over, according to a new flagship UN report that indicates countries must take ‘critical’ steps ... More >>
UN Appeals For Resupply Of Aid And Fuel In Tigray Region
Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 4:09 pm | UN News
Humanitarian operations have been gradually resuming in the war-ravaged Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, but resupply of aid and fuel for civilians caught up in the fighting is urgently needed, the United Nations said on Tuesday, citing information ... More >>
