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Brutal Attacks on Rohingya Meant to Make Return Impossible
Thursday, 12 October 2017, 8:10 am | United Nations
Brutal attacks on Rohingya meant to make their return almost impossible – UN human rights report More >>
Creating a healthy workplace improves mental wellbeing
Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 3:51 pm | United Nations
10 October 2017 – People spend a large proportion of time at work, where experiences there factor into their overall wellbeing, the United Nations said on World Mental Health Day, noting that depression and anxiety disorders are common mental disorders ... More >>
UN Condemns Attack on Mission Base in DR Congo
Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 11:27 am | United Nations
10 October 2017 – The United Nations Security Council has called on the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to investigate into, and bring to justice those behind Monday’s attack on a peacekeeping mission base in North Kivu that ... More >>
UN Endorses Plan to Restart Political Process in Libya
Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 11:25 am | United Nations
10 October 2017 – The Security Council today endorsed the United Nations’ action plan to resume an inclusive political process in Libya. More >>
UN-Led Partnership to Protect Biodiversity & Curb Hunting
Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 10:56 am | United Nations
10 October 2017 – To help African, Caribbean and Pacific countries stop unsustainable wildlife hunting, conserve natural heritage and strengthen people's livelihoods and food security, the United Nations agriculture agency launched on Tuesday a €45 ... More >>
UN agencies launch cholera immunization campaign
Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 10:42 am | United Nations
10 October 2017 – In a race to prevent a cholera outbreak among the more than half a million Rohingya refugee arrivals over the past six weeks in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, United Nations agencies launched on Tuesday a massive immunization campaign. More >>
UN Experts Urge States to Protect All Migrant Children
Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 10:35 am | United Nations
NEW YORK (10 October 2017) – States must step up their work to protect migrant children from sale, trafficking and other forms of exploitation, two UN experts say in a joint study, warning that many children currently suffer sexual and labour exploitation ... More >>
Disaster Risk Outpaces Resilience in Asia-Pacific
Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 10:33 am | United Nations
10 October 2017 – Disaster risk is outpacing resilience in Asia-Pacific and putting people in this most disaster-prone region at risk of being pushed back into poverty, the latest report from a United Nations regional commission has revealed. More >>
The death penalty has no place in the 21st century - UN
Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 10:29 am | United Nations
10 October 2017 – The death penalty does little to deter crimes or serve victims, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday, calling on all countries which have not forbidden the extreme practice to urgently stop executions. More >>
UN Treaty ‘beginning of the end for nuclear weapons’
Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 6:55 pm | United Nations
9 October 2017 – Speaking to journalists at the United Nations Headquarters, in New York, representatives of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winner – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) – urged countries around the globe to ... More >>
Five million displaced in northern Iraq
Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 6:39 pm | United Nations
9 October 2017 – As the Iraqi offensive in and near Hawija in Kirkuk Governorate is drawing to a close, the United Nations and its humanitarian partners expressed deep concern on Monday for the safety of civilian populations in the region. More >>
UN emergency response fund reaches annual goal
Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 6:37 pm | United Nations
9 October 2017 – The United Nations global emergency response fund has reached its 2017 funding target of $450 million, but much more is required given that the number of people in need of assistance is at a record high. More >>
UN Reports Global Unemployment Passes 200M in 2017
Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 10:22 am | United Nations
9 October 2017 – More than 200 million people are out of work around the world – an increase of 3.4 million since last year, the United Nations labour agency said Monday, calling for policies that can recharge “sluggish” growth of small ... More >>
UN Urges Maldives Reforms after Mass Suspension of Lawyers
Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 9:35 am | United Nations
GENEVA (9 October 2017) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Diego García-Sayán, has urged the Maldives to introduce urgent reforms and rectifications after the indefinite suspension of 54 lawyers. More >>
Guyana: Crisis in justice and penitentiary systems
Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 8:58 am | United Nations
GENEVA (9 October 2017) – Major deficiencies in the justice and prison systems in Guyana, including a jail not fit for human habitation, are having a disproportionate impact on people of African descent, a group of UN human rights experts has said ... More >>
UN welcomes US decision to lift Sudan sanctions
Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 8:46 am | United Nations
GENEVA (9 October 2017) – A UN human rights expert has praised the US decision to lift sanctions against Sudan after two decades of enforcement. More >>
Rohingya refugee children perish as boat capsizes
Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 8:44 am | United Nations
9 October 2017 – At least 13 Rohingya refugees, 11 of them young children, fleeing violence in Myanmar have drowned when the fishing boat they were on capsized in stormy weather, the United Nations migration agency said. More >>
UN Lauds Dominica’s Vision to Become Climate-Resilient
Monday, 9 October 2017, 12:25 pm | United Nations
UN chief lauds Dominica’s vision to become first climate-resilient nation after recent devastation More >>
Bubonic and Pneumonic plagues spread in Madagascar
Saturday, 7 October 2017, 12:22 pm | United Nations
6 October 2017 – The United Nations health agency is rapidly scaling up its response to a plague outbreak in Madagascar that has spread to the capital and port towns, infecting more than 100 people in just a few weeks. More >>
Mali: delays in implementing peace agreement
Saturday, 7 October 2017, 12:21 pm | United Nations
6 October 2017 – The Security Council today expressed a deep concern over the persistent delays in fully implementing key provisions of the peace agreement between the Government of Mali and the Plateforme and Coordination armed groups, urging the ... More >>
