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China Joins Global Effort To Ensure COVID Vaccine Access For All
Saturday, 10 October 2020, 3:43 pm | UN News
China is among three additional countries to have signed on to a global initiative that aims to ensure fair and equitable access to a COVID-19 vaccine once developed, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday. The country, together with ... More >>
UN World Food Programme Wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, As Hunger Mounts
Saturday, 10 October 2020, 8:16 am | UN News
A UN World Food Programme (WFP) helicopter delivers much-needed supplies to people in Udier, South Sudan. Photo: UNICEF/Peter Martell The UN World Food Programme (WFP), which provides lifesaving food assistance to millions across the world – often ... More >>
Transitional President In Mali Appoints New Prime Minister, Top UN Official Tells Security Council
Friday, 9 October 2020, 4:13 pm | UN News
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Mahamat Saleh Annadif (on screen), Special Representative and Head of the UN Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation in the country, the first in the chamber since March, due ... More >>
Guterres: UN Working ‘Relentlessly’ To Advance Women, Peace And Security Agenda
Friday, 9 October 2020, 4:10 pm | UN News
Armed conflict has a disproportionate impact on women and girls – a key reason why women’s “full, equal and meaningful participation” in UN peacekeeping is such a priority, the Secretary-General said on Thursday. At a virtual roundtable ... More >>
UN Refugee Agency Condemns ‘brutal And Callous’ Killings In Burkina Faso
Friday, 9 October 2020, 8:52 am | UN News
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has strongly condemned an attack, on the night of 4 October, targeting a convoy carrying internally displaced persons in Burkina Faso, in which 25 people were killed. The 25 people – all men – were part of a group ... More >>
Pandemic Has Forever Changed Online Shopping, UN-backed Survey Reveals
Friday, 9 October 2020, 8:50 am | UN News
The COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed the way consumers shop online, the UN trade and development body, UNCTAD , said on Thursday, announcing results of a survey of some 3,700 consumers across nine countries. The study examined how the global ... More >>
Space Sector Works To Keep Societies And Economies On Track During COVID-19
Thursday, 8 October 2020, 8:00 am | UN News
Decades of developments in the space sector are being utilized during the COVID-19 pandemic, helping countries to keep their citizens safe and economies on track, the head of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs ( UNOOSA ) said on Wednesday, in a ... More >>
Global Trade Amid COVID-19: Signs Of Rebound, But Recovery Uncertain
Thursday, 8 October 2020, 7:50 am | UN News
Global trade is showing signs of bouncing back from a deep, COVID-19-induced slump, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has said, with the caveat that any recovery could be badly disrupted by the future course of the pandemic and how societies react. ... More >>
UN Chief Condemns Continuing Escalation Of Violence In Nagorno-Karabakh
Wednesday, 7 October 2020, 8:47 am | UN News
The United Nations Secretary-General has condemned the continuing escalation of violence in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, reminding all sides of their obligations under international humanitarian law to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure. ... More >>
Starvation Used As Weapon Of War In South Sudan Conflict, UN Rights Body Finds
Wednesday, 7 October 2020, 8:44 am | UN News
Starvation is being intentionally used as a war tactic in South Sudan’s brutal conflict, a UN-backed human rights panel said on Tuesday, releasing its latest report on the country. South Sudan gained independence in July 2011 but descended into conflict ... More >>
Guterres Regrets Death In Kyrgyzstan, Calls For Dialogue To End Violence
Wednesday, 7 October 2020, 8:42 am | UN News
The UN Secretary-General said on Tuesday that he was “closely monitoring” the situation in the Kyrgyz Republic, where protests erupted a day earlier in the aftermath of Sunday’s parliamentary elections. According to news reports, one person died ... More >>
70 Per Cent Of COVID Cases Located In Just 10 Countries, WHO Reports
Tuesday, 6 October 2020, 4:03 pm | UN News
UN Women/Louie Pacardo Wearing a full protective suit, a women doctor who leads a group of volunteer medical professionals attending to COVID-19 patients and persons under investigation at a community hospital in the Philippines. While COVID-19 has ... More >>
Countries Face ‘Critical Moment’ In COVID Response: UN Health Agency Chief
Saturday, 3 October 2020, 2:42 pm | UN News
© UNICEF/Dhia Al-Adimi A volunteer guides and instructs girls in a town in Yemen, on the proper way to wash their hands. With strong leadership and comprehensive strategies it’s never too late for countries to change the trendlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, ... More >>
Mediterranean Sea: ‘Cycle Of Violence’ For Fleeing Migrants Must Be Addressed
Saturday, 3 October 2020, 2:39 pm | UN News
IOM Libya Migrants who have been returned to shore in Libya after attempting to cross the sea to Europe are supported by aid workers from the IOM. The UN human rights office OHCHR, called on Friday for urgent action to address the “unimaginable horrors” ... More >>
Guterres: Only Way To Remove Nuclear Risk, ‘completely Eliminate Nuclear Weapons’
Saturday, 3 October 2020, 8:44 am | UN News
The elimination of nuclear weapons is vital to the “survival of life on this planet”, the UN chief told the final major event of the General Assembly’s high level week on Friday. Secretary-General António Guterres told delegates gathered to commemorate ... More >>
Sudan Alert: Flooding And Surging Inflation Threaten Humanitarian Assistance
Saturday, 3 October 2020, 8:42 am | UN News
A flood-affected village in Khartoum State, Sudan. Photo: UNOCHA Catastrophic flooding and rising food and health costs in Sudan, have driven up the number of people in need, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ( OCHA ) said on ... More >>
Central African Republic: Elections Are ‘Unique Opportunity’ For Peace - Guterres
Friday, 2 October 2020, 4:20 pm | UN News
MINUSCA/Hervé Serefio Voter registration in Bangui, Central African Republic. The UN Secretary-General has called for parties in the Central African Republic (CAR) to prioritize national dialogue and consensus-building ahead of elections scheduled ... More >>
Annual Report: Pandemic Recovery Must Be Measured In ‘Human Rather Than Economic Terms’
Friday, 2 October 2020, 4:11 pm | UN News
WFP/Rein Skullerud A woman in Eastern Rwanda tends to crops in a field in where the UN agriculture agency, World Food Programme (WFP), is assisting small-scale farmers. In the Introduction , Secretary-General António Guterres said the international ... More >>
COVID-19 Underscores Need To Deliver On Promise Of Landmark Women’s Rights Conference
Friday, 2 October 2020, 9:22 am | UN News
Unless countries act now, the COVID-19 pandemic could erase recent “fragile progress” towards gender equality, the UN Secretary-General warned on Thursday, urging governments to put women at the centre of recovery and response. António Guterres issued the ... More >>
Guterres Urges More Countries To Step Up And Fund Global COVID-19 Vaccine Effort
Thursday, 1 October 2020, 8:12 am | UN News
The UN Secretary-General on Wednesday called for all nations to provide further urgently needed funds – the equivalent of the total spent on cigarettes worldwide every two weeks – on behalf of global COVID-19 vaccine efforts to ensure that everyone, ... More >>
