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Climate Emergency ‘A Danger To Peace’, UN Security Council Hears
Saturday, 25 July 2020, 7:03 am | UN News
UNDP Somalia/Said Isse Consequences of climate change vary from region to region. UN-supported dams in Somalia provide water access to livestock. The climate emergency generated by global warming, is exacerbating existing risks to international peace ... More >>
Rights Experts Urge Nigeria To Free Humanist Detained For Blasphemy
Saturday, 25 July 2020, 6:57 am | UN News
© UNICEF/Ashley Gilbertson Street scene in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. Nigerian authorities must immediately release prominent humanist and rights defender Mubarak Bala, who has been detained for more than two months without charge on accusations ... More >>
Security Council Stalemate Frustrates Families Of Syria’s Missing Detainees
Friday, 24 July 2020, 8:08 am | UN News
© UNOCHA In Idlib, Syria, a displaced woman sits on the floor outside the damaged school that she now lives in. Families of the more than 130,000 people believed to be detained and forcibly disappeared in Syria, are deeply frustrated by the Security ... More >>
Rights Experts Call On Tanzania To End ‘Crackdown’ On Civic Space
Thursday, 23 July 2020, 6:14 am | UN News
World Bank/Hendri Lombard UN human rights experts have called on Tanzania to end a crackdown on freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly and association. Tanzania should allow peaceful gatherings to take place ahead of elections in October and ... More >>
Iran Urged To Release Rights Activist With COVID-19 Symptoms ‘Before It Is Too Late’
Thursday, 23 July 2020, 6:11 am | UN News
Unsplash/Parastoo Maleki Zanjan Bazaar in Iran A group of independent UN human rights experts has called for Iran to urgently release an activist who reportedly is ill with COVID-19 symptoms “before it is too late”. They said Narges Mohammadi appears ... More >>
Israel-Palestine: Breakdown In Cooperation Over COVID, Now Putting Lives At Risk
Wednesday, 22 July 2020, 7:59 am | UN News
© UNRWA/Khalil Adwan An UNRWA staff member provides medication to an elderly Palestine man in the Gaza strip. Cooperation between Israelis and the Palestinians at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic is breaking down, putting human lives at risk as the economy ... More >>
Harness Multilateralism’s Power To Urgently Advance Women’s Rights Amid COVID Recovery
Wednesday, 22 July 2020, 7:02 am | UN News
UN Women/Fahad Kaizer Development workers hand over relief aid to a woman amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Dhaka, Bangladesh. With essential resources for women’s health being diverted to emergency COVID-19 response around the world, Governments, civil ... More >>
COVID-19 Scapegoating Triggers Fresh Displacement In Yemen, Warns Migration Agency
Wednesday, 22 July 2020, 6:23 am | UN News
IOM/Olivia Headon A displaced woman stands in the doorway of her shelter with her young children in Ibb city, Yemen. COVID-19 fears have prompted fresh displacement in war-torn Yemen , and forced many of those on the move to sell what little they ... More >>
New Social Contract Needed To Combat ‘inequality Pandemic’: Guterres
Tuesday, 21 July 2020, 8:02 am | UN News
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre The UN Office at Geneva (UNOG) commemorated with a special event, Nelson Mandela Day, whose legacy continues to guide us today. (file) As the coronavirus outbreak continues to rage around the world, the UN chief urged everyone ... More >>
Global Cooperation Key To Eradicating Deadly Pig Virus: UN Agency
Tuesday, 21 July 2020, 6:43 am | UN News
A disease that may kill every pig it infects and for which there is no effective vaccine, can be eradicated if more countries continue to work together to limit its spread, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) said on Monday. IAEA/Laura ... More >>
First-Ever World Chess Day, Helps Calm Nerves During COVID-19 Pandemic
Tuesday, 21 July 2020, 6:40 am | UN News
With the COVID-19 pandemic leading to a pause for most sport worldwide, the UN has been celebrating a highly-competitive game that you can play safely indoors or online – with the added bonus of helping reduce anxiety, and improving mental health: ... More >>
‘Inequality Defines Our Time’: UN Chief Delivers Hard-hitting Mandela Day Message
Sunday, 19 July 2020, 8:01 am | UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivers the annual Nelson Mandela Lecture. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Inequality, an issue which “defines our time”, risks destroying the world’s economies and societies, UN Secretary-General António Guterres ... More >>
Mandela Prize Awarded To Greek And Guinean Rights Activists
Saturday, 18 July 2020, 5:45 pm | UN News
The 2020 Nelson Mandela Prize, which is awarded every five years and recognizes those who dedicate their lives to the service of humanity, will go this year to Marianna Vardinoyannis, of Greece, and Doctor Morissana Kouyaté, of Guinea, it was announced ... More >>
World’s Poorest Being Pushed ‘Closer To The Abyss’ Of Famine, Warns WFP Chief
Saturday, 18 July 2020, 8:14 am | UN News
Hunger threatens to soar to devastating levels in 25 countries in the coming months due to the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the World Food Programme ( WFP ) and Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) are warning. The greatest concentration ... More >>
Syria: Authorization To Continue Lifesaving Cross-Border Aid Remains In Limbo
Saturday, 11 July 2020, 5:51 pm | UN News
© UNICEF/Ali Almatar | Brothers Ahmad (left), 7, and Saad, 5, carry a hygiene kit back to their tent in Fafin camp, northern rural Aleppo With the deadline just hours away, the Security Council has failed on its third attempt this week to extend its ... More >>
‘Strengthen Multilateralism’ To Combat Global Terrorism
Saturday, 11 July 2020, 5:47 pm | UN News
UNODC | Consequences of cyber terrorism span across borders Although COVID-19 has tested “national resilience, international solidarity and multilateral cooperation”, we must not “pause our efforts” in the battle against terrorism, the UN counter-terrorism ... More >>
WHO To Issue New Brief On Airborne Transmission, Following ‘active Engagement’ With Scientists
Wednesday, 8 July 2020, 8:12 am | UN News
The World Health Organization (WHO) is set to issue a brief on the modes of transmission of the new coronavirus, a senior official said on Tuesday. Epidemiologist Dr. Maria van Kerkhove, WHO technical lead on COVID-19 , was responding to a journalist’s ... More >>
UNAIDS Report: COVID-19 Pandemic Derails 2020 HIV Targets
Tuesday, 7 July 2020, 8:17 am | UN News
HIV targets set for 2020 will not be reached, owing in part to deeply unequal access to antiretroviral therapy and service disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new UNAIDS report released on Monday. The report – Seizing the Moment ... More >>
UN Rights Office Expresses Alarm At Hong Kong Arrests Under New Security Law
Saturday, 4 July 2020, 5:06 pm | UN News
Unsplash/Man Chung | The skyline of Hong Kong harbour The UN human rights office, OHCHR , has expressed alarm at the arrest of demonstrators in Hong Kong, following China’s adoption of a national security law for the Special Administrative Region ... More >>
Food Is Best Vaccine Against Chaos, Insists UN World Food Programme Head
Tuesday, 30 June 2020, 7:22 am | UN News
Tens of millions more people are likely to go hungry this year because of the COVID-19 crisis, the UN World Food Programme ( WFP ) said on Monday, as it announced plans for a massive boost to its global aid operation so it can reach them. In an alert, ... More >>
