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UN Envoy Outlines Progress Towards Cooperation In Africa’s Great Lakes Region
Wednesday, 14 October 2020, 4:04 pm | UN News
Even as they confront the COVID-19 pandemic, countries in Africa’s Great Lakes Region continue to improve political, security and economic cooperation in line with a 2013 Framework agreement, UN Special Envoy Huang Xia told the Security Council ... More >>
Stand In Solidarity With World’s Poor, UN Chief Says In Message For International Day
Wednesday, 14 October 2020, 3:56 pm | UN News
© UNICEF/Fazel COVID-19 and its fallout has pushed millions around the world deeper into poverty. According to UNICEF, many families are experiencing levels of deprivation they have never seen before The UN Secretary-General has called for solidarity with ... More >>
IMF: ‘Less Severe’ But ‘still Deep’ Recession Predicted
Wednesday, 14 October 2020, 9:14 am | UN News
In the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic and its continuing impact, the global economy could see a “somewhat less severe, though still deep” recession through 2020, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected in its latest global economic ... More >>
Bad Situations ‘Only Get Worse’ Without Disaster Risk Governance, UN Chief Says On International Day
Wednesday, 14 October 2020, 6:44 am | UN News
With nations facing multiple crises simultaneously and a dramatic rise in extreme weather events in recent decades, the UN Secretary-General has called for strengthening disaster risk governance, to build a safer, more resilient world. In a message commemorating ... More >>
Herd Immunity, An ‘Unethical’ COVID-19 Strategy, Tedros Warns Policymakers
Tuesday, 13 October 2020, 4:37 pm | UN News
Using the principle of so-called “herd immunity” to stem the COVID-19 pandemic is “unethical” and “not an option” countries should pursue to defeat the virus, the UN health agency chief warned on Monday. “Herd immunity is a concept ... More >>
New Report Highlights Value Of UN’s Human Rights Work In The Field
Tuesday, 13 October 2020, 4:34 pm | UN News
The UN’s work in promoting dialogue between Arabic and Kurdish groups in Iraq is just one example of how human rights personnel are playing a critical role at the Organization’s peace operations around the world. The case is included in a ... More >>
‘Staggering’ Rise In Climate Emergencies In Last 20 Years, New Disaster Research Shows
Tuesday, 13 October 2020, 9:03 am | UN News
The first 20 years of this century have seen a “staggering” rise in climate disasters, UN researchers said on Monday, while also maintaining that “almost all nations” have failed to prevent a “wave of death and illness” caused by the ... More >>
Greater Equality A ‘prerequisite’ For Overcoming Global Crises: Bachelet
Tuesday, 13 October 2020, 9:02 am | UN News
In reviewing, assessing and acknowledging the effects of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, enslavement and colonialism, the groundbreaking Durban World Conference of 2001, represented a “milestone” in the common fight against racism, xenophobia ... More >>
New Agreement In Iraq Signals ‘A First And Important Step’ Toward A Better Future
Saturday, 10 October 2020, 3:46 pm | UN News
© UNICEF/Wathiq Khuzaie Holding a 13-day-old infant, an elderly Yazidi woman who fled Sinjar Mountain re-enters Iraq from the Syria. (file) An agreement between Iraq’s Federal and the Kurdish Regional governments on Friday paves the way for reconstruction ... More >>
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 >>
