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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 >>
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 >>
