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Nationalism threatens efforts to tackle statelessness
Tuesday, 8 October 2019, 8:30 am | UN News
Hate speech and misguided nationalism present a serious threat to efforts to tackle statelessness, despite growing public awareness of the problem, UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said on Monday. More >>
Turning waste into wealth
Tuesday, 8 October 2019, 8:30 am | UN News
Waste can have a devastating effect on public health, the environment, and the climate, but cutting-edge innovation and technology can provide improved, cheaper solutions to the challenge, and help cities and communities to see waste as a business opportunity. ... More >>
WHO chief underscores need to address climate change
Thursday, 3 October 2019, 9:12 am | UN News
The top UN health official has called for the world to rally around The Bahamas as the country continues to emerge from the devastation caused by Hurricane Dorian one month ago. More >>
WHO and UNICEF in campaign to protect 1.6 million in Sudan
Wednesday, 2 October 2019, 8:25 am | UN News
UN agencies are working with the authorities in Sudan to protect more than one million people from cholera, an infectious disease which can kill within hours if left untreated. More >>
Athens urged to fast track asylum seekers amid island crisis
Wednesday, 2 October 2019, 8:24 am | UN News
A spike in the number of refugees reaching Greek island reception centres is likely to worsen the situation in already “dangerously overcrowded” facilities there, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday. More >>
Strict alcohol laws cut intake more than 40% in Russia
Wednesday, 2 October 2019, 8:23 am | UN News
Strict laws put in place by the Russian authorities since 2003 have resulted in a significant drop in alcohol-related deaths nationwide, a report from the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed on Tuesday. More >>
Constitutional Committee breakthrough offers ‘sign of hope’
Tuesday, 1 October 2019, 10:40 am | UN News
There is a “sign of hope for the long-suffering Syrian people” as a Syrian-led, Syrian-owned, credible and inclusive Constitutional Committee is set to start deliberations next month, the United Nations Special Envoy for the country told the Security Council ... More >>
‘Are we ready for the age of disruption?’
Tuesday, 1 October 2019, 9:33 am | UN News
“The Twenty-First Century is often described as the age of disruption. The question is, are we ready for it?”, asked Thailand’s Foreign Minister, Don Pramudwinai, as he addressed the UN General Assembly on Monday. More >>
UN Mission in Haiti calls on protestors, authorities
Tuesday, 1 October 2019, 9:14 am | UN News
Following days of intensifying protests in Haiti, Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Monday the UN was “concerned by reports of violence and arson” across the country. More >>
Timor-Leste Foreign Minister highlights value of UN
Tuesday, 1 October 2019, 9:13 am | UN News
Timor-Leste continues to be a reflection of “the best the UN has to offer,” Foreign Minister Dionisio da Costa Babo Soares declared on Monday before the UN General Assembly. More >>
Despite Rohingya crisis, Bangladesh is ‘development miracle'
Saturday, 28 September 2019, 1:21 pm | UN News
Despite global turbulence and economic uncertainty, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh told the General Assembly on Friday evening that her country has often been cited as a “development miracle”. More >>
'We may be small islands, but no man is an island’
Saturday, 28 September 2019, 1:19 pm | UN News
“All of us from small islands can relate to the word’s perception of us, as small islands”, but rather than treating them as distant vessels, imagine instead “an undivided Pacific, connected by an ocean highway.” That was the plea to world leaders ... More >>
Pakistan’s Khan warns of all-out conflict amid tension
Saturday, 28 September 2019, 1:13 pm | UN News
In a fiery address on Friday to the UN General Assembly , Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, warned of an all-out conflict with neighboring India, saying that there will be a “bloodbath” once India lifts its nearly two-month long curfew in disputed ... More >>
Nauru President warns of ‘economic Armageddon'
Friday, 27 September 2019, 10:54 am | UN News
Climate change is putting Pacific tuna fish stocks at risk, potentially creating an “economic Armageddon” for Nauru, President Lionel Aingimea warned the UN General Assembly on Thursday. More >>
Elimination of nuclear weapons ‘only real way’ to allay fear
Friday, 27 September 2019, 9:37 am | UN News
Progress made in reducing the danger posed by nuclear arsenals has not only come to a halt, “it is going in reverse”, and any use of a nuclear weapon in the future would ignite “a humanitarian catastrophe.” More >>
Patriotism must have global dimension, says EU’s Donald Tusk
Friday, 27 September 2019, 9:04 am | UN News
The suggestion by some earlier this week at the UN that there is an immanent conflict between patriotism and globalism “is false and dangerous , even if it has many followers and powerful propagators,” European Council President said on Thursday. More >>
DR Congo President outlines vision for Security Council
Friday, 27 September 2019, 9:03 am | UN News
With Africa at the centre of many global challenges, it is time for the continent to have a seat in the UN Security Council, the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) told world leaders on Thursday. More >>
At UN Abbas rejects Israeli ‘arrogance’
Friday, 27 September 2019, 9:02 am | UN News
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday denounced what he called “arrogance and aggression” by the Israeli Government and called on the United Nations to push harder for the two-state solution to resolve the conflict. More >>
Earth’s oceans and frozen spaces paying price for climate
Thursday, 26 September 2019, 9:41 am | UN News
Our oceans and frozen spaces have been “taking the heat” for global warming for decades, climate experts said on Wednesday , warning that without a radical change in human behaviour, hundreds of millions of people could suffer from rising sea levels, ... More >>
At UN, Iran proposes ‘coalition for hope’
Thursday, 26 September 2019, 8:40 am | UN News
The Gulf region is “on the edge of collapse”, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told world leaders on Wednesday at the annual high-level segment of the United Nations General Assembly , saying that “a single blunder can fuel a big fire”. More >>
