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UN Rights Chief Rejects Killings Acknowledged By Cameroon, And Iran’s Execution Of Child Offenders
Thursday, 23 April 2020, 9:14 am | UN News
The UN’s human rights chief has been weighing in on recent killings committed by State authorities, or by rogue members of State military forces, emphasizing that all Governments must strictly abide by international law and hold those who serve, ... More >>
Still ‘a Long Way To Go’ In Coronavirus Battle, WHO Chief Warns
Thursday, 23 April 2020, 7:33 am | UN News
A lone pedestrian in Piazza Del Duomo, a space normally crowded with thousands of visitors. © UNICEF/Francesco Spighi / The Florentine The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against complacency as countries continue to confront ... More >>
Fall In COVID-linked Carbon Emissions Won’t Halt Climate Change - UN Weather Agency Chief
Thursday, 23 April 2020, 7:05 am | UN News
The World Meteorological Organization says above average temperatures are expected in many parts of the world in the first months of 2020. Photo: WMO/Kabelo Tamocha An expected drop in greenhouse gas emissions linked to the global economic crisis ... More >>
Startling Disparities In Digital Learning Emerge As COVID-19 Spreads: UN Education Agency
Wednesday, 22 April 2020, 8:17 am | UN News
With most of the world’s students now at home due to COVID-19, the pandemic is revealing startling divides in digitally-based distance learning, data from the UN education and cultural agency, UNESCO, and partners has revealed. They found that ... More >>
Guterres Vows Support For Island States In Twin Fight Against COVID-19, Climate Crisis
Wednesday, 22 April 2020, 8:13 am | UN News
In an era of new challenges wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, Secretary-General António Guterres is pledging the UN’s continued support to small island States – longtime leaders in the global fight against the devastating impacts of climate ... More >>
COVID-19: Actors Idris And Sabrina Elba Launch New UN Fund For Rural Farmers
Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 7:05 am | UN News
British actor Idris Elba (left) and his wife Sabrina Elba visited Sierra Leone with the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). © IFAD/Rodney Quarcoo A new global coronavirus relief fund launched on Monday by actor, filmmaker and humanitarian ... More >>
Music, Talent And Hope, Unite Millions Across The World Online In Support Of Coronavirus Workers
Sunday, 19 April 2020, 5:09 pm | UN News
This weekend’s One World: Together At Home event, saw many of the biggest names in music join the UN health agency and Global Citizen movement in supporting the millions of healthcare and other front line workers who are helping stave off the ... More >>
First Person: DR Congo Doctor Prepares For Latest In Long Line Of Health Crises
Thursday, 16 April 2020, 4:12 pm | UN News
Health professionals working with the World Health Organization (WHO) in eastern Democratic of Congo (DRC), have been dealing with the deadly Ebola epidemic since August 2018. This experience is helping them to prepare for the latest disease to ... More >>
First Person: The Power Of Art In A Time Of Coronavirus Crisis
Thursday, 16 April 2020, 7:33 am | UN News
Aldo Sebastián Cicchini, a violinist at RAI orchestra plays on a balcony in Milan, Italy during the COVID-19. Photo: Ana Mazzeo In Italy, impromptu concerts, performed from apartment balconies, have become one of the features of life under lockdown. ... More >>
COVID-19: Growth Forecast At -3 Per Cent, As IMF Offers Debt Relief To Most Vulnerable Nations
Wednesday, 15 April 2020, 8:46 am | UN News
A view of a pharmacy through protective plastic in Astoria, Queens, during the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City. UN Photo/Evan Schneider Forecasting the “worst economic downturn since the Great Depression”, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday ... More >>
Hatred Going Viral In ‘dangerous Epidemic Of Misinformation’ During COVID-19 Pandemic
Wednesday, 15 April 2020, 7:42 am | UN News
Many children in the United States are attending online school from home during the coronavirus outbreak. © UNICEF/Lisa Adelson As the world battles the deadly COVID-19 pandemic and people are searching for clear facts and answers to questions, ... More >>
Coronavirus-driven Debt Crisis Threatens Poor Countries Already At Risk, Says UN Report
Friday, 10 April 2020, 3:05 pm | UN News
As governments struggle to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, billions of people living in countries teetering on the brink of economic collapse are being threatened further by a looming debt crisis, according to a new UN report released on Thursday. International ... More >>
Over 10,000 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In Africa; Zimbabwe And South Sudan Among Most Vulnerable
Thursday, 9 April 2020, 7:58 am | UN News
A mother homeschools her children in Shamva district, Zimbabwe, during the COVID-19 pandemic. WFP/Tatenda Macheka The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday that the number of COVID-19 cases in Africa has now risen to more than 10,000, claiming ... More >>
Vulnerable Indians Need Urgent Help To Cope With COVID-19 Pandemic: A UN Resident Coordinator Blog
Wednesday, 8 April 2020, 3:21 pm | UN News
Millions of people in India have a hand-to-mouth existence, and fast response measures put in place to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, are making life even more difficult for them. For this latest in our occasional series by UN country team leaders, Renata ... More >>
Mali: UN Mission Fulfills Mandate, Aids Battle Against Coronavirus
Wednesday, 8 April 2020, 9:28 am | UN News
As the COVID-19 pandemic plagues the world, the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali told the Security Council on Tuesday that the mission continues to fulfill its mandate while doing whatever it can to prevent the coronavirus outbreak from ... More >>
COVID-19 Highlights Nurses’ Vulnerability As Backbone To Health Services Worldwide
Wednesday, 8 April 2020, 7:56 am | UN News
Echoing that call, Baroness Mary Watkins, Alternate-Chair of Nursing Now and co-chair of the report, underscored that nurses have also been attacked “not only with COVID care, but with Ebola, with AIDS, with HIV”. It was “completely unacceptable” ... More >>
How Can The World Counter COVID-19 Online? UN Issues Hackers’ Challenge To CodeTheCurve
Tuesday, 7 April 2020, 7:50 am | UN News
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) is inviting young innovators, data scientists and designers throughout the world – especially those whose schools have closed due to COVID-19 - to join a month-long ... More >>
From Landmines To Pandemics, UN Chief Says Milestones Reached By ‘Working Together’
Sunday, 5 April 2020, 4:59 pm | UN News
UNMAS/Gwenn Dubourthoumieu | A deminer undergoing training in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Decades ago, millions of landmines were buried in countries around the globe, and today the world is in the throes of a deadly COVID-19 pandemic, the ... More >>
UN Chief Urges Unity In Mobilizing ‘every Ounce Of Energy’ To Defeat Coronavirus Pandemic
Saturday, 4 April 2020, 8:59 am | UN News
There should be only one fight in our world today, the United Nations Secretary-General said on Friday, issuing a loud clarion call to join “our shared battle against COVID-19”. Ten days ago, António Guterres called for an immediate global ceasefire ... More >>
'Everyone At Risk’ As Coronavirus Cases Tick Up Among Migrants And Refugees Sheltering In Greece
Friday, 3 April 2020, 10:43 am | UN News
With 23 migrants at an open accommodation site in central Greece testing positive for COVID-19, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) sounded the alarm on Thursday over conditions in crowded reception centres on five Greek islands where ... More >>
