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‘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 >>
DR Congo: Grave Consequences For Children Witnessing ‘Appalling Violence’, UNICEF Reports
Friday, 25 June 2021, 5:40 pm | UN News
The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF , appealed on Thursday for urgent resources to support thousands of people who have fled armed violence in two small towns in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the past two months. ... More >>
UN Chief Urges European Parliament To Support COVID Vaccines For All
Friday, 25 June 2021, 5:38 pm | UN News
The European Union (EU) must use its leverage to ensure people everywhere have access to COVID-19 vaccines, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday. In a wide-ranging multilingual speech to the European Parliament in Brussels, the UN ... More >>
COVID Pandemic Fuelling Major Increase In Drug Use Worldwide: UN Report
Friday, 25 June 2021, 5:35 pm | UN News
Around 275 million people used drugs worldwide in the last year of unprecedented upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, up by 22 per cent from 2010. That’s among the key findings of the latest annual report released on Thursday by the United Nations ... More >>
91 Countries Now Offer COVID-19 Vaccinations To Refugees, Says UNHCR
Friday, 25 June 2021, 5:33 pm | UN News
UN refugee agency UNHCR, on Thursday welcomed the growing number of countries that have offered COVID-19 vaccines to refugees before urging others to do the same. “Beyond the moral imperative, this is in our collective self-interest”, said Ann Burton, ... More >>
