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Empowering Women In Peace Operations Remains Top Priority, Says UN Peacekeeping Chief
Friday, 26 March 2021, 8:00 am | UN News
Praising women’s fundamental contributions to peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts, the UN peacekeeping chief reiterated on Thursday that empowering women in the military remains a top priority, but to achieve this goal needs “all hands on deck”. Jean-Pierre ... More >>
Probe Announced Into Alleged Tigray Rights Violations: UN Rights Office
Friday, 26 March 2021, 7:53 am | UN News
Alleged serious abuses and rights violations in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are to be investigated by the UN, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Thursday. The probe, which will be carried out jointly by the High Commissioner’s ... More >>
UN Emergency Fund Allocates $14 Million For Rohingya Refugees Left Homeless By Massive Fire
Friday, 26 March 2021, 7:50 am | UN News
The United Nations’ top relief official on Wednesday released $14 million in emergency funding to provide life-saving assistance to thousands of Rohingya refugee families, after a massive fire ripped through the Kutupalong camp in southern Bangladesh, earlier ... More >>
Libya: UN Envoy Hails New National Government After Years Of ‘Paralysis And Internal Divisions’
Friday, 26 March 2021, 7:48 am | UN News
After years of “paralysis and internal divisions”, progress towards a lasting peace through stable national government and dialogue, is being made in Libya, the top UN envoy for the country said on Wednesday. “The House of Representatives on ... More >>
Young People Help Draw Up UN Digital Protection Recommendations
Friday, 26 March 2021, 7:46 am | UN News
Over 30 years after the invention of the world wide web, The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has laid out the ways that young people and children should be treated in the digital world, and how their rights should be protected. The document, ... More >>
UN Chief Reaffirms Solidarity With Niger, As Second Deadly Attack Rocks Country
Friday, 26 March 2021, 7:44 am | UN News
24 March 2021 The United Nations Secretary-General has reaffirmed the Organization’s support and solidarity with Niger, as the second deadly attacks against civilians in less than a week rocked the west African nation. On Sunday, unidentified gunmen ... More >>
Global COVID-19 Infections Rise For Fourth Consecutive Week, Deaths Level Off
Friday, 26 March 2021, 7:42 am | UN News
24 March 2021 COVID-19 confirmed cases continued to rise around the world for a fourth consecutive week, with around 3.3 million new cases reported in the past seven-day period, the UN health agency said on Wednesday. The number of new deaths from the ... More >>
Guterres Welcomes Saudi Peace Initiative To End Fighting In Yemen
Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 4:46 pm | UN News
The UN Secretary-General on Tuesday welcomed the announcement by Saudi Arabia of steps aimed at helping end the fighting and restart the political process in Yemen. In a statement issued by his Spokesperson, António Guterres said that he welcomed ... More >>
Amidst ‘Heightened Intensity’ Actions Toward Peace Must Be ‘In The Best Interests’ Of Afghans
Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 4:45 pm | UN News
Amidst a period of “heightened intensity”, the UN Special Representative told the Security Council on Tuesday that the killing, displacement and suffering of the Afghan people “must end now”. More than six months after formal Afghan peace ... More >>
Human Rights Council Strengthens Rights Office Probe Into Sri Lanka’s Long Civil War
Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 4:40 pm | UN News
The United Nations Human Rights Council has been given a mandate to collect and preserve information and evidence of crimes related to Sri Lanka's 37-year long civil war that ended in 2009. The 47-member council on Tuesday adopted a resolution on ... More >>
‘Seize The Moment’ To Recover And Rebuild Better, UN Deputy Chief Urges Asia-Pacific Nations
Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 7:34 am | UN News
Confronting major setbacks due to the coronavirus pandemic, countries in Asia and the Pacific “must now seize the moment” to rebuild and recover better together, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General said on Tuesday. Addressing the eighth ... More >>
1.4 Million With Tuberculosis, Lost Out On Treatment During First Year Of COVID-19
Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 7:13 am | UN News
An estimated 1.4 million fewer people received necessary care for tuberculosis (TB) during 2020 compared with the previous year, because of COVID-19, the UN health agency said on Monday. Latest data from the World Health Organization ( WHO ) from more ... More >>
Collective Commitment Needed To End The ‘Poison’ Of Racism: UN Cultural Chief Says
Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 7:11 am | UN News
With the COVID-19 pandemic providing fertile ground for the resurgence of racism and discrimination, the head of the UN’s educational and cultural agency, UNESCO , called on Monday for countries to stand united in what she described as “these ... More >>
Oceans Under Threat Like Never Before, Warns World Meteorological Organization
Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 7:09 am | UN News
Climate change has hit the world’s oceans hard, UN weather experts said on Monday, in a call for lifesaving monitoring and early warning services that were interrupted by COVID-19 to be ramped up again, to protect shipping and coastal communities at ... More >>
Recognize ‘True Value’ Of Water, UN Urges, Marking World Day
Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 7:06 am | UN News
22 March 2021 The UN is marking World Water Day on Monday with a global conversation on how people value the lifegiving resource in different parts of the world, according to local needs. “For me, water means protection”, Secretary-General António ... More >>
UN Chief ‘Profoundly Concerned’ Over Rise In Violence Against Asians
Tuesday, 23 March 2021, 5:13 pm | UN News
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has issued a statement expressing his profound concern over the rise in violence against Asians, and people of Asian descent, during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Compounding the general scourge of racism ... More >>
UN Agencies Urge Turkey Not To Abandon International Accord Protecting Women
Monday, 22 March 2021, 5:51 am | UN News
United Nations agencies on Saturday called on Turkey to reconsider its withdrawal from a key regional treaty on preventing violence against women, including domestic violence, and bringing the perpetrators to justice. Dubbed the Istanbul Convention, ... More >>
Forest Restoration Provides A Path To Pandemic Recovery, Greener Future
Saturday, 20 March 2021, 6:23 am | UN News
Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic should lead to stronger action to safeguard the world’s forests, a senior UN official said on Friday, highlighting how these natural resources have helped to protect health and well-being during the global ... More >>
No ‘Fix’ To Police Violence, Without Tackling Scourge In Society, Says Rights Chief
Saturday, 20 March 2021, 6:03 am | UN News
The Human Rights Council embarked on a discussion over police violence against people of African descent on Friday, with a warning from UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet that “brutality and discrimination against people of African descent continue to ... More >>
Scores Of Schools ‘Reportedly Occupied’ By Security Forces In Myanmar, As Guterres Condemns Continuing Brutality
Saturday, 20 March 2021, 5:54 am | UN News
Security forces in Myanmar have reportedly occupied more than 60 schools and university campuses across the country, marking a further escalation of the crisis, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. In a statement issued later in ... More >>
