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Human Rights Council Urged To Support UN Chief’s Call For A ‘New Social Contract’ After COVID-19
Tuesday, 22 June 2021, 5:14 pm | UN News
MONUSCO UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet speaks to the Congolese press during a visit to Ituri, DRC (file photo). UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Monday urged UN Member States to promote a more inclusive post-pandemic recovery ... More >>
Grave Violations Against Children In Conflict ‘Alarmingly High’, Latest UN Report Reveals
Tuesday, 22 June 2021, 5:10 pm | UN News
UNOCHA/Giles Clarke Two children, who recently returned home after they and their family fled fighting in 2017, look out over the Al Gamalia neighborhood of Taiz City. More than 19,300 boys and girls affected by war last year were victims of grave violations ... More >>
Slow Progress, Stubborn Cycles Of Violence, As South Sudan Turns 10
Tuesday, 22 June 2021, 5:04 pm | UN News
South Sudan, the UN’s youngest Member State, is marking its tenth anniversary of independence amid languishing political progress and a range of humanitarian challenges, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative told Security Council members on ... More >>
COVID-19: First MRNA Vaccine Tech Transfer Hub A ‘Great Step Forward’
Tuesday, 22 June 2021, 5:03 pm | UN News
The World Health Organization ( WHO ) is supporting a South African consortium in establishing the first COVID-19 mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub, the UN agency announced on Monday. The facility will allow manufacturers from developing countries ... More >>
Forced Displacement At Record Level, Despite COVID Shutdowns: UNHCR
Monday, 21 June 2021, 6:14 pm | UN News
The number of people fleeing wars, violence, persecution, and human rights violations, rose last year to nearly 82.4 million people, a further four percent increase on top of the already record-high of 79.5 million, recorded at the end of 2019. According ... More >>
Famine Risk Spikes Amid Conflict, COVID-19 And Funding Gaps: WFP
Monday, 21 June 2021, 6:09 pm | UN News
The impact of conflicts old and new, climate shocks and COVID-19, in addition to a lack of funding, have left millions more on the verge of famine than six months ago, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. In an appeal for $5 billion “to ... More >>
COVID-19: Vaccines Donated Next Year, ‘Too Late For Those Who Are Dying Today’
Saturday, 19 June 2021, 4:57 pm | UN News
Millions more COVID vaccines need to be donated now to save lives and help the UN health agency reach the key global target of having 70 per cent of all national populations vaccinated, by the middle of 2022. That was one of the main messages relayed to reporters ... More >>
António Guterres Secures Second Term As UN Secretary-General, Calls For New Era Of ‘Solidarity And Equality’
Saturday, 19 June 2021, 6:00 am | UN News
António Guterres was on Friday re-appointed to a second term as UN Secretary-General, pledging as his priority, to continue helping the world chart a course out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Taking the oath of office in the General Assembly Hall, Mr. Guterres ... More >>
One In Every 100 Dies By Their Own Hand, Each Suicide ‘A Tragedy’ – WHO
Friday, 18 June 2021, 4:57 pm | UN News
New research published by the UN health agency on Thursday revealed that suicide remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide – taking more lives each year than HIV, malaria, breast cancer, war and homicide. Based on its estimates that more ... More >>
Political Impasse In Haiti, Amid Rising Humanitarian Needs, Ahead Of Crucial Elections
Friday, 18 June 2021, 4:30 pm | UN News
Amid worsening socioeconomic conditions, rising criminal gang violence and a resurgence of COVID-19, Haiti’s leaders must commit to good-faith dialogue aimed at ending a longstanding and damaging political impasse, the UN’s senior official in the ... More >>
‘Digital Dumpsites’ Study Highlights Growing Threat To Children: UN Health Agency
Thursday, 17 June 2021, 5:09 pm | UN News
The health of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide is at risk from the illegal processing of old electrical or electronic devices, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, in a landmark new report on the toxic threat. ... More >>
Domestic Workers Among Hardest Hit By COVID Crisis, Says UN Labour Agency
Thursday, 17 June 2021, 5:06 pm | UN News
Domestic workers globally have been among the hardest hit by the COVID crisis, losing more jobs and working hours than other sectors, the UN labour agency ILO said on Tuesday. Ten years on from the landmark adoption of the International Labour Organization ... More >>
COVID-19 Cases Drop For Seventh Week, But Deaths Fall Less Slowly: WHO
Tuesday, 15 June 2021, 5:08 pm | UN News
The number of new COVID-19 cases reported to the UN health agency has declined for seven weeks in a row, in what the top official there called on Monday “the longest sequence of weekly declines during the pandemic so far”. However, while weekly ... More >>
Restoring Nature ‘The Test Of Our Generation’: UN General Assembly President
Tuesday, 15 June 2021, 4:21 pm | UN News
Stepping up global efforts to combat land degradation is the only way to safeguard food and water security, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ward against future threats to health and the environment, the UN General Assembly President told ambassadors ... More >>
Around 1.5 Million Lebanese In Need, Top UN Humanitarian Official There Warns
Tuesday, 15 June 2021, 4:19 pm | UN News
As Lebanon endures one of its worst financial and economic crises ever, the UN estimates that over the next eight months around $300 million is needed to provide vital aid to around 1.5 million Lebanese and 400,000 migrant workers living there. “The explosion ... More >>
Violence Against Elderly Has Risen During COVID, UN Expert Warns
Tuesday, 15 June 2021, 6:55 am | UN News
With “entrenched ageist attitudes” already undermining the autonomy of elder persons in making their own choices and decisions, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus further violence, abuse and neglect against them, a UN independent ... More >>
Landmark G7 Agreement Pledges 870 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Doses, Half By End-2021
Monday, 14 June 2021, 6:31 am | UN News
©Karwai Tang/G7 Cornwall 2021 | G7 leaders plenary: Building back better from COVID19, Cornwall, UK. A senior UN official welcomed on Sunday, the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrialized nations’ commitment to immediately share at least 870 million doses ... More >>
Mozambique: Violence Continues In Cabo Delgado, As Agencies Respond To Growing Needs
Saturday, 12 June 2021, 4:57 pm | UN News
Civilians continue to flee armed conflict and insecurity in northern Mozambique, more than two months after militants attacked the coastal city of Palma, located in Cabo Delgado province, UN agencies reported on Friday. The UN refugee agency, ... More >>
Continuing Venezuela Exodus And COVID-19 Highlights Need For Global Solidarity For Most Vulnerable
Saturday, 12 June 2021, 4:55 pm | UN News
Vulnerable Venezuelan migrants and refugees who have been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 health and socio-economic crisis, urgently need greater support from the international community, UN humanitarians said on Friday, ahead of a donor conference ... More >>
UNESCO Report Highlights Need For Greater Investment, Diversity In Science
Saturday, 12 June 2021, 4:36 pm | UN News
Although spending on science has risen worldwide, greater investment is needed in the face of growing crises, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) has recommended in a new report published on Friday. The latest edition ... More >>
