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Cut Methane Emissions To Avert Global Temperature Rise, UN-backed Study Urges
Friday, 7 May 2021, 6:28 am | UN News
6 May 2021 Methane emissions caused by human activity can be reduced by up to 45 per cent this decade, thus helping to keep global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius in line with the Paris Agreement on climate change, according to a UN-backed ... More >>
Early-warning ‘Pandemic Hub’ Plan Unveiled By WHO’s Tedros And Germany’s Merkel
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 5:16 pm | UN News
An international hub for pandemic control is to open in Berlin to ensure better preparedness and transparency in the fight against likely future global health threats, the UN health agency announced on Wednesday. Supported by the German Government, ... More >>
155 Million Faced Acute Food Insecurity In 2020, Conflict The Key Driver
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 5:15 pm | UN News
At least 155 million people faced crisis levels of food insecurity in 2020 because of conflict, extreme weather events and economic shocks linked in part to COVID-19, a UN-partnered flagship report said on Wednesday. It’s been five years since hunger ... More >>
Myanmar: Attacks On Healthcare Jeopardizing COVID-19 Response, UN Team Says
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 5:13 pm | UN News
There have been at least 158 reported attacks on medical personnel and facilities in Myanmar, with more than 139 doctors arrested and charged since the military coup in February, endangering not only vital health services but also the COVID-19 response, ... More >>
South Asia: ‘Real Possibility’ Health Systems Will Be Strained To A Breaking Point, UNICEF Warns
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 5:11 pm | UN News
Impacts of the deadly new surge in COVID-19 cases across South Asia are unlike anything the region has seen before, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said, warning of a “real possibility” that health systems there will be strained to ... More >>
Joy In South Sudan, As Schools Reopen After 14-month COVID Lockdown
Wednesday, 5 May 2021, 6:46 am | UN News
The countrywide reopening of schools in South Sudan is a welcome step on the road to “normalcy” for youngsters, two in three of whom need humanitarian assistance, the UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) said on Tuesday. Describing the “joy” felt ... More >>
UN Human Rights Office Urges Calm, After Bloodshed In Colombian City Of Cali
Wednesday, 5 May 2021, 6:45 am | UN News
The United Nations human rights office (OHCHR) on Tuesday voiced deep alarm over the violence in the city of Cali in Colombia overnight, as a number of people were reportedly killed and wounded when police opened fire on demonstrators. Spokesperson ... More >>
UN Envoy Gordon Brown Urges G7 Countries To Fund Global COVID Vaccination Push
Tuesday, 4 May 2021, 6:51 am | UN News
Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Monday for the world’s richest nations to underwrite COVID-19 vaccination in poorer countries, highlighting the need to raise some $60 billion over the next two years. Speaking during the regular ... More >>
Latest Deadly Ebola Virus Outbreak In DR Congo Declared Over
Tuesday, 4 May 2021, 6:12 am | UN News
The 12th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was declared officially over on Monday, just three months after the first case was reported in North Kivu, but it marks the end of the country’s fourth outbreak of the deadly ... More >>
Free Press ‘A Cornerstone’ Of Democratic Societies, UN Says
Tuesday, 4 May 2021, 6:11 am | UN News
The United Nations Secretary-General on Monday urged governments to “do everything in their power” to support free, independent and diverse media, which the UN’s top human rights official highlighted as “a cornerstone of democratic societies”. ... More >>
UN Chief Welcomes Return To Electoral Agreement In Somalia
Tuesday, 4 May 2021, 6:08 am | UN News
The United Nations Secretary-General on Saturday welcomed the decision by the Lower House of Somalia’s Federal Parliament to nullify a special law and to return to the 17 September Electoral Agreement that will allow for indirect presidential and ... More >>
Chad: UN Rights Office Profoundly Disturbed Over Violence Against Protesters
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 4:18 pm | UN News
The UN rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday that it is deeply disturbed by security forces in Chad's use of live ammunition during recent protests after the death of former President Idriss Déby, on 19 April. Six people were reportedly killed and ... More >>
Decades Of Health Gains At Risk In Brazil Due To COVID-19
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 4:17 pm | UN News
Although COVID-19 cases are declining in Brazil, the pandemic is putting decades of public health gains there at risk, the head of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) said on Friday. With global attention and support focused this week ... More >>
Address Inequalities To End AIDS By 2030, UN Chief Says In New Report
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 6:18 am | UN News
Inequalities in addressing AIDS threaten global efforts to stamp out the disease as a public health threat by 2030, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned in a report published on Friday, which provides 10 key recommendations to get the ... More >>
Feeling Kind Of Blue? Holocaust Survivor Lifts Lockdown Spirits Through Jazz
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 6:16 am | UN News
An 89-year-old pianist who escaped the Holocaust in Nazi Germany almost eight decades ago, has been explaining how he started playing jazz in memory of his sister, and has kept going through the COVID-19 lockdown, playing from the window of his Brussels ... More >>
Middle East Coordinator Calls For New And TimelyPalestinian ElectionDate
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 6:13 am | UN News
Unsplash/Ahmed Abu Hameeda | Young man waves flag of Palestine. After the postponement of the Palestinian Legislative Council elections, originally scheduled for 22 May, a senior UN official in the region on Friday urged the authorities to set a ... More >>
Myanmar Approaching Point Of Economic Collapse: UN Report
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 5:53 am | UN News
The turmoil following the military coup in Myanmar, coupled with the impact of COVID-19 could result in up to 25 million people – nearly half of the country’s population, living in poverty by early next year, a United Nations report said on Friday. That ... More >>
COVID-19 Cases Rise For Ninth Consecutive Week, Variants Continue Spreading
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 5:51 am | UN News
COVID-19 infections have increased for the ninth consecutive week globally while variants continue their spread, the UN health agency has confirmed . Nearly 5.7 million new cases were reported in the last seven-day period, above previous highs, the World ... More >>
Vaccinated Europeans Now Outnumber Those Infected By COVID, But ‘Threat Remains Present’
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 5:49 am | UN News
Just over 460 days since the first COVID-19 cases were reported in Europe, more citizens living in the region have now been vaccinated, than the number infected, and although new cases and hospitalizations are falling, “the threat remains present”, ... More >>
UN Chief Pledges To Fight For All Cypriots, As Impasse Remains
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 5:47 am | UN News
UN Photo/Violaine Martin | UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefs the Informal 5+1 meeting on Cyprus in Geneva. UN Secretary-General António Guterres pledged on Thursday that he would continue to represent the interests of all Cypriots in future ... More >>
