DR Congo: Agencies appeal for funding for refugee support and Ebola response
Urgent resources are needed to support countries in southern Africa and the Great Lakes region…
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International Women’s Day: progress on gender equality remains slow
Women’s Rights in Review, 25 years after Beijing takes stock of how the landmark gender…
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar reaped diplomatic success ‘perhaps without parallel’ in UN history
The former Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, who has died aged 100, was responsible for…
News in Brief 5 March 2020
– Tributes pour in for former UN chief Javier Pérez de Cuéllar – 290 million students out of school amid COVID-19 measures – Lower…
Coronavirus update: 290 million students now stuck at home
School closures in 13 countries linked to the COVID-19 virus epidemic have disrupted the education of…
Women and girls still vulnerable to HIV due to gender inequality: UNAIDS
Gender discrimination and violence, as well as “huge” gaps in education, are among the factors…
Deadlock broken, South Sudan on road to ‘sustainable peace’, but international support still key
Positive developments in South Sudan have “moved the country further along the road to sustainable…
UNcomplicated: International Women’s Day
Why is it so difficult to make gender equality a reality? Our UNcomplicated podcast hosts,…
Coronavirus COVID-19: don’t panic, says top UN economist
As deaths continue to rise from the coronavirus outbreak, its economic consequences are becoming clearer,…
News in Brief 4 March 2020
– Progress aside, world still a violent place for girls and women: UN report –…
Violent extremism prevention ‘only effective’ if human rights are enshrined
Many global programmes aimed at countering violent extremism have negative impacts on human rights and…
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Human rights defenders, too often left defenceless themselves – UN expert
Human rights defenders working in conflict and post-conflict situations need to be given greater recognition,…
Coronavirus update: UN scales back major conference
The organizing committee of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), a major UN…
Coronavirus COVID-19 wipes $50 billion off global exports in February alone
The extent of the damage to the global economy caused by novel coronavirus COVID-19 moved…
Yemen: UN Population Fund stresses women’s needs, amidst world’s worst humanitarian crisis
Intense clashes in Yemen’s Al Hazam City, this month have caused massive displacement with an estimated 1,800 families forced…
Managing genetic diversity ‘essential’ for species to adapt to climate change
The massive Australian wildfires have scorched millions of acres in the country since July last…
News in Brief 3 March 2020
Myanmar doing too little to ensure return of displaced Rohingya, says UN refugee agency chief…
World remains a ‘violent, highly discriminatory place’ for girls
Twenty-five years after the historic Beijing women’s conference in China – a milestone in advancing…
‘We can’t stop COVID-19 without protecting health workers’: WHO chief
A shortage of protective equipment is endangering health workers worldwide, warned the World Health Organization…
DR Congo: With Ebola on the wane, UN agencies prepare to combat coronavirus
After more than a year of battling an Ebola virus outbreak that killed more than 2,200 people, UN officials…
Myanmar doing too little to ensure displaced Rohingya return: UN refugee agency chief
UN agencies together with the Bangladesh authorities have appealed for $877 million to support hundreds…
No country is free from child sexual abuse, exploitation, UN’s top rights forum hears
Child sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and the use of children in prostitution “are a reality…
News in Brief 02 March 2020
– Seven UN agencies conduct cross-border mission to Idlib, Syria – Syrians suffering ‘unprecedented’ levels…
Nature and wildlife, critical to our existence
It’s time that humankind realizes “that nature doesn’t exist for us”, the Head of the…
COVID-19: ‘Top priority’ must be on containment, insists WHO’s Tedros
Containing the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic should still be everyone’s “top priority”, UN health agency chief…
Use of religious beliefs to justify rights violations must be outlawed says UN expert
Laws underpinned by religious conviction that discriminate against women and the LGBT+ community should be repealed,…
UN releases emergency funds to help vulnerable countries fight coronavirus COVID-19
$15 million dollars has been released from the UN’s Central Emergency Fund to help fund…
Fighting discrimination against women is key to beating AIDS
“The struggle to beat AIDS is inseparable from the struggle for women’s rights and from…
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UN health agency warns against coronavirus COVID-19 criminal scams
The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning that criminals are taking advantage of the spread…
News in Brief 28 February 2020
COVID-19: Risk now ‘very high’, but containment still possible ‘Mayhem’ in Idlib as Turkey-Syria tensions…
Central African Republic: Militia sentencing show justice has been served
The recent sentencing of militia members in the Central African Republic for the 2017 killing…
US Israel-Palestinian peace plan a ‘mockery’, upends long-standing consensus – International Conference hears
The United States’ announcement of a new vision for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, touted as…
Coronavirus COVID-19 risk increased to ‘very high’ but containment still possible
Countries must act quickly and robustly to contain the coronavirus COVID-19 epidemic, the World Health…
Connecticut prison warning: Prolonged solitary confinement may ‘amount to torture’, UN expert warns
The “excessive use” of solitary confinement by the prison service in the US state of…
Make this the century of women’s equality: UN chief
The 21st century must be the century of women’s equality, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday evening, in a call to transform the world…
News in Brief 27 February 2020
COVID-19: UN rights chief warns against stigmatization Social media hate speech is poisoning minds Northwest…
Myanmar: ‘Multidimensional and long-standing’ root causes behind rights minority abuses, says Bachelet
The Human Rights Council on Thursday held an interactive dialogue with UN rights chief, Michelle…
No country should make ‘fatal’ mistake of ignoring COVID-19: Tedros
All countries should do more to prevent the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus and none should…
Smoking and drinking link to recreational drug use by young people: UN-backed report
The use of alcohol and tobacco by young people and children is closely linked to…
A UN-backed boost for women-run businesses in the developing world
Many women running small businesses in emerging markets in developing countries have to juggle their…
News in Brief 26 February 2020
– WHO chief: ‘No time for complacency’ on coronavirus disease – UN health and tourism…
News in Brief 25 February 2020
– World must tackle ‘relentless’ displacement crisis: Guterres – Geneva event for youth aims to give…
Impunity persists for alleged violations in Occupied Palestinian Territories, UN Human Rights Council hears
Justice is still absent for Palestinian demonstrators shot by Israeli soldiers during weekly protests in Gaza, the UN Human Rights Council heard on Wednesday. Read Original Article: Impunity persists for alleged violations in…
Coronavirus: More cases outside China than in, ‘no time for complacency’ – UN health agency
The number of new COVID-19, or coronavirus, infections outside China has outpaced those inside the…
News in Brief 24 February 2020
– UN chief outlines 7-point Call of Action on human rights – COVID-19 is not…
UN human rights chief warns of women’s rights complacency
Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has warned against complacency on women’s…
UN panel to rally global political will to tackle internal displacement crisis
Forty-one million people around the world are internally displaced – and hundreds of thousands more…
COVID-19 not yet a pandemic, says UN health agency chief
While a sudden increase in new cases of COVID-19 is of concern, the spread of…
With Gaza violence ‘escalating as we speak,’ UN envoy calls for ‘immediate stop’
It is no longer enough to reaffirm past agreements on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a senior UN envoy, who said on Monday that it…
With human rights under attack, UN chief unveils blueprint for positive change
People’s basic human rights – their birth-right – are “under assault”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres…