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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 >>
First Person: The Somali Refugees Planting A New Life In The United States
Monday, 5 July 2021, 6:59 am | UN News
After spending years living in UN-supported camps in Kenya, some 220 former refugees from Somalia now work as farmers in the US state of Maine, growing crops ranging from beets to broccolini. Thousands of Somalis who fled persecution and civil war ... More >>
400,000 In Tigray Cross 'threshold Into Famine', With Nearly 2 Million On The Brink, Security Council Told
Saturday, 3 July 2021, 4:23 pm | UN News
Senior UN officials appealed on Friday for immediate and unrestricted humanitarian access to Tigray – and for an end to deadly attacks on aid workers - as the Security Council held its first open meeting on the conflict in the restive northern Ethiopian ... More >>
Landmark Gender Equality Forum Concludes With Concrete Commitments, Plan To Advance Parity By 2026
Saturday, 3 July 2021, 4:21 pm | UN News
With the chief of the UN’s gender empowerment agency declaring that women are still “sitting in the corridors when men are inside at the table negotiating peace”, the historic Generation Equality Forum in Paris concluded on Friday with new commitments ... More >>
‘Free, Unfettered Access’ Needed To Assist Millions In War-torn Tigray
Saturday, 3 July 2021, 6:17 am | UN News
The World Food Programme (WFP) has resumed operations in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, after fighting halted the emergency response last week, although the agency warned on Friday that “serious challenges” continue to threaten the entire humanitarian ... More >>
Turning Crisis Into Opportunity: World Leaders Meet At UN To Help Drive Pandemic Recovery
Saturday, 3 July 2021, 6:15 am | UN News
Leading figures from government, business and civil society are preparing to take part in this year’s High Level Political Forum on sustainable development (HLPF), where they will discuss ways to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, ... More >>
Billions Risk Being Without Access To Water And Sanitation Services By 2030
Friday, 2 July 2021, 4:01 pm | UN News
Without an urgent injection of cash, billions globally are at risk of still being without lifesaving access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services by 2030, according to a new UN report published on Thursday. Latest data from the ... More >>
Terrorists Become Increasingly ‘innovative’, In A World Shaken By COVID-19
Thursday, 1 July 2021, 4:09 pm | UN News
Despite “significant progress” in the fight against terrorism, the UN counter-terrorismchief warned on Wednesday that amidst new and more diverse threats, COVID-19 has triggered increased activity throughout many countries. Vladimir Voronkov, head of the UNOffice ... More >>
Generation Equality: Alongside COVID Lies An ‘Equally Horrific Pandemic’ Threatening Women
Thursday, 1 July 2021, 6:36 am | UN News
As the world grapples unevenly with the effects of COVID-19, “a parallel and equally horrific pandemic” has threatened half the world’s population, the UN chief said on Tuesday, in the lead up to the Generation Equality Forum in France. On Wednesday, ... More >>
Hospitals Barely Functioning, Famine Still Looming In Ethiopia’s Tigray Region
Thursday, 1 July 2021, 6:34 am | UN News
UN humanitarians expressed concern on Tuesday at the uncertain situation in Ethiopia's conflict-ravaged Tigray region despite a ceasefire call from the Government, highlighting the ongoing famine-like conditions there and the potential for disease outbreaks. ... More >>
Record-breaking ‘Pressure-Cooker’ Heatwave Hits Canada, US Northwest
Thursday, 1 July 2021, 6:32 am | UN News
A "pressure-cooker" heatwave that's broken temperature records twice in 48 hours in the US northwest and western Canada is being mirrored across large parts of the northern hemisphere, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday. ... More >>
‘Highest Standards Of Conduct’ Required For Successful UN Peacekeeping
Wednesday, 30 June 2021, 4:06 pm | UN News
Successful peacekeeping requires the “highest standards of conduct” by civilian and uniformed peacekeepers, the UN chief told a High-Level Meeting this week on Strengthening the Conduct of Peacekeeping Personnel. Therefore, “strengthening accountability ... More >>
WHO Guidance On Artificial IntelligenceTo Improve Healthcare, Mitigate Risks Worldwide
Tuesday, 29 June 2021, 6:20 pm | UN News
Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds “enormous potential” for improving the health of millions around the world if ethics and human rights are at the heart of its design, deployment, and use, the head of the UN health agency said on Monday. “Like all ... More >>
UN Rights Office Highlights Policing Reforms To Address Systemic Racism
Tuesday, 29 June 2021, 6:18 pm | UN News
Radical policing reforms are needed to address systemic racism affecting people of African descent around the world, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Monday, as her Office published a series of recommendations prompted by the killing of George ... More >>
The Trillion Dollar Climate Finance Challenge (and Opportunity)
Tuesday, 29 June 2021, 5:36 am | UN News
It’s overwhelmingly accepted that climate change is a very significant threat to humanity and while there are countless solutions to tackling what has been described by the UN as the “existential threat” of our times, it is still not fully clear ... More >>
Syria’s Last Cross-border Aid Lifeline Must Stay Open, Insist UN Humanitarians
Sunday, 27 June 2021, 5:40 am | UN News
The imminent closure of the last cross-border aid lifeline to northwest Syria must be postponed beyond the 10 July deadline, UN humanitarians said on Friday, noting that no cross-line supplies had reached Idlib from Damascus, in 11 months. World ... More >>
Prevention, Only ‘Sustainable Solution’ To Conflict, Deputy UN Chief Tells Nigerian Law Students
Sunday, 27 June 2021, 5:36 am | UN News
Speaking in Nigeria, the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has emphasized the importance of prevention as “the only real, sustainable solution” to resolving the challenges thrown up by conflict. Prevention will help us “flatten the curve” ... More >>
Tigray: UN Condemns Murder Of 3 MSF Humanitarians As ‘Appalling Violation’ Of International Law
Sunday, 27 June 2021, 5:31 am | UN News
Three employees of the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) agency have been killed by unknown attackers in the restive Tigray region of Ethiopia, drawing swift condemnation from UN Secretary-General António Guterres who said on Saturday he was “deeply ... More >>
On Climate Change Frontline, Indigenous Provide Pointers To Save Planet
Saturday, 26 June 2021, 3:51 pm | UN News
Indigenous people living on the frontline of climate change could offer potentially ground-breaking insight into biodiversity protection and sustainability, but they urgently need help to withstand a growing number of threats to their way of life, ... More >>
COVID-19 Delta Variant Has Potential To Make ‘Epidemic Curve Exponentially’
Saturday, 26 June 2021, 3:49 pm | UN News
The head of the UN health agency expressed concern on Friday over the COVID-19’s delta variant, which he called “the most transmissible” mutation to date. TedrosAdhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-Generalof the World health Organization ( WHO ) told journalists ... More >>
