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World News : UN Supporting East Africa Flood Victims, Dozens More Migrant Deaths At Sea, Disinformation In Myanmar
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 12:04 pm | UN News
The UN and humanitarian partners have provided emergency support for over 124,000 people in Kenya, where heavy rains continue to cause chaos, as the UN chief extended his condolences to countries across the region where hundreds of lives have been ... More >>
Europe: Report Highlights Direct Link Between Pandemic And Childhood Obesity
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 11:45 am | UN News
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased obesity in school-aged children in Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) office for the region said in a new report issued on Wednesday, sounding the alarm for action. More >>
Palestine: General Assembly Discusses Failed UN Membership Bid
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 11:32 am | UN News
Palestine’s recent attempt to become a full member of the United Nations was the focus of discussion in the General Assembly on Wednesday. More >>
GAZA: Injured Children Struggling To Recover Amid Decimated Health System After Witnessing Horrific Scenes
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 9:39 am | Save The Children
Over six months of war in Gaza, the rate of attacks on healthcare in Gaza has been higher than in any other recent conflict globally, according to Save the Children analysis. More >>
Laureus World Sports Awards: Class Of 2024
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 5:55 am | Laureus
The ‘Class of 2024’, as seen in this picture, are joined by special guest presenters – Usain Bolt and Tom Brady – as well as the Host of the global television Awards show, Andy Garcia. More >>
Whither Social Justice And Decent Work For Women?
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 5:11 am | CNS
Idolising the ‘homemaker’ and ’motherhood’ role of women, gives a social sanction to thrusting the majority of burden of unpaid household and other care work on them, while giving an escape to men from child-rearing and household chores, and ... More >>
Gazans On Tenterhooks Awaiting News Of Ceasefire Call
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 4:44 am | UN News
Amid growing international calls for restraint from Israel in Gaza and reports on Wednesday of further deadly strikes overnight, UN humanitarians underscored the ongoing devastating impact of the war and the need to ensure reliable aid supply lines to ... More >>
Salute To Agricultural Workers' Struggles For Decent Work And Living
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 4:11 am | PAN Asia Pacific
The Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) joins millions of working people worldwide in commemorating the May 1 International Labor Day. Despite intensifying political repression, we salute agricultural workers' continuing struggle to assert ... More >>
El Niño Exit Leaves Lasting Impact On Southeast Asia's Agricultural Systems, Stressing The Need For Preventive Measures
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 6:30 pm | UN FAO
A new brief by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)highlights that since February 2024, drier conditions have emerged in various pockets of the region, posing a threat to rice and wheat harvests and potentially delaying the onset ... More >>
Record Class Action Settlement Gives Hope To 50,000 Australian Junior Doctors
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 2:56 pm | Hayden Stephens and Associates
A landmark $229.8 million class action settlement in NSW - the largest ever for underpayment in Australian legal history - has ignited hope for thousands more junior doctors in Australia who have been working excessive hours without fair compensation. More >>
Gaza Destruction Impossible To Even Process, UN Humanitarian Says
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 12:04 pm | UN News
After nearly seven months of war in Gaza, nowhere is safe, people are scared, and everyone is hanging on to hopes of a ceasefire. More >>
Security Council Hears Of Progress In Bosnia Despite ‘worrying’ Trend Of Genocide Denial
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 11:50 am | UN News
Both positive and “worrying” developments have recently unfolded in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a top UN official told the Security Council on Tuesday at an emergency meeting requested by Russia. More >>
Heat-stricken Bangladesh Extends School Closures - Save The Children
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 10:40 am | Save The Children
Bangladesh has ordered the closure of all primary and secondary schools for another week following country-wide closures last week brought about by a heat wave which kept about 33 million children out of school as temperatures soared past 42C (108F). More >>
DR Congo Conflict Could Spell Catastrophe, Plastics Treaty Progress, Enforced Disappearances Rise Ahead Venezuela Poll
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 9:21 am | UN News
The world’s leading humanitarian action forum on Tuesday said that crushing levels of violence and displacement are fuelling unprecedented civilian suffering in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). More >>
UN Official Urges South Sudan To Lift Taxes Halting Aid
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 6:30 am | UN News
The UN’s top humanitarian official in South Sudan has urged the government to lift newly imposed taxes and charges that are causing aid deliveries to be suspended, affecting tens of thousands of people. More >>
Children’s Shoes Left Behind Illustrate Chaos Of Fleeing Khan Younis: UN Humanitarians
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 6:28 am | UN News
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, reached one of its now-abandoned schools in Khan Younis at the weekend, where thousands of people appeared to have left at a moment’s notice, fearing further intense Israeli bombardment. More >>
Gaza At ‘Most Dangerous’ Stage Amid Huge Unexploded Weapons Risk, Warns Demining Expert
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 6:24 am | UN News
The head of UN peacekeeping and demining reiterated calls on Monday for a ceasefire in Gaza as a first step to returning the war-ravaged enclave to some normality, while mine clearance experts warned that the Strip is now at its “most dangerous period”. More >>
UN Officials Urge Swift Action To Tackle El Niño-induced Extreme Weather
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 6:22 am | UN News
Top UN officials called on Monday for swift action to combat the El Niño extreme weather events that are currently devastating southern Africa and other regions with flooding and drought. More >>
World News In Brief: Violence Blocking Darfur Aid, New Iraq Law, Chad Elections Appeal
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 6:17 am | UN News
Rising violence is again restricting humanitarian aid delivery in the Darfur region of Sudan, the head of the World Food Programme said on Monday. More >>
UN Reviews Progress And Challenges 30 Years After Landmark Population Conference
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 6:15 am | UN News
Global progress towards sustainable development will continue to stall unless countries do more to bridge the gender gap and reduce poverty and inequality, the President of the General Assembly said on Monday. More >>
Alarming Rise In Enforced Disappearances Ahead Of Venezuela’s Presidential Poll: UN Experts
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 6:11 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
An alarming increase in enforced disappearances of citizens exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association and participating in matters of public interest is reported in Venezuela since December 2023, UN experts* said today. More >>
United States Of America: UN Human Rights Chief Troubled By Law Enforcement Actions Against Protesters At Universities
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 6:06 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Tuesday said he was troubled by a series of heavy-handed steps taken to disperse and dismantle protests across university campuses in the United States of America. More >>
‘Extraordinary, Deep Anxiety’ In Gaza Over Feared Rafah Attack
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 5:44 am | UN News
Ordinary Gazans remain in a “constant state of trauma” over an impending full-scale Israeli attack on the enclave’s southernmost city of Rafah amid a growing number of strikes there, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday. More >>
Guterres Calls On Israel And Hamas To End Gaza War
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 5:32 am | UN News
With the situation in Gaza “worsening by the day”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday appealed for Israeli and Hamas leaders currently taking part in intense negotiations to reach a ceasefire agreement. More >>
Meta Must Take Immediate Action To Stop The Systematic Censorship Of Pro-Palestinian Voices
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 4:30 am | Access Now
As the war in Gaza rages on, with the death toll mounting to almost 35,000, Meta and Big Tech must act to uphold human rights. More >>
Gaza Protests: UN Rights Chief Flags ‘disproportionate’ Police Action On US Campuses
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 4:15 am | UN News
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Tuesday said he was troubled by “a series of heavy-handed steps” taken by some universities in the United States to disperse and dismantle Gaza war protests. More >>
The Future Of Education In Kentucky
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 1:56 pm | Hugh Grant
In collaboration with the James Graham Brown Foundation, this group has since been working tirelessly to reform the state of Kentucky’s education system. In the short three years since its conception, the KYSSC has already made a notable impact on ... More >>
Prime Minister Of Fiji Launches UN Social Cohesion Programme For Peace And Unity
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 9:35 am | UNDP Fiji
Funded through the UN Secretary-General Peacebuilding Fund, the initiative aims to address the regions unique challenges and promote inclusive governance. More >>
UN Expresses Solidarity With Kenya Following Deadly Floods
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 8:50 am | UN News
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated the UN’s continued commitment to Kenya in the wake of deadly floods caused by weeks of heavy rains that continue to affect the region. More >>
MSF Report Denounces Gaza’s “Silent Killings” From Preventable Disease And Lack Of Access To Medical Care
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 7:00 am | MSF Australia
Gaza’s healthcare system has been devastated, with men, women and children at increasing risk of acute malnutrition and with their physical and mental health deteriorating rapidly, according to a report released by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without ... More >>
End Internet Shutdowns During Exams For Good: #NoExamShutdown
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 6:28 am | Access Now
Through the #NoExamShutdown campaign, Access Now, the Internet Society (ISOC), and SMEX are continuing the fight to end internet shutdowns during national secondary and high school exams in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, building ... More >>
UN CERD Publishes Findings On Albania, Mexico, Qatar, Moldova And San Marino
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 6:26 am | UN Treaty Bodies
The findings contain the Committee’s main concerns and recommendations on the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, as well as positive aspects. Key highlights include: More >>
Ecuador: Victims Of Modern Slavery Must Have Remedy And Reparation In Ongoing Lawsuits, UN Experts Say
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 6:17 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Victims of modern slavery in Ecuador’s abaca plantations, who suffered harrowing human rights abuses for decades under the Furukawa Plantaciones company, must be granted legal remedy and reparation in ongoing lawsuits. More >>
UN Experts Call For International Torture-free Trade Agreement
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 6:14 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
UN experts* called on Member States to adopt a treaty prohibiting the trade, manufacture, and use of tools and equipment that inflict torture and to regulate their use by law enforcement and other public authorities. More >>
Ukraine: Civilians Killed And Injured As Attacks On Power And Rail Systems Intensify
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 5:13 am | UN News
An increase in civilian casualties caused by intensifying attacks from the Russian armed forces against Ukraine’s electric power infrastructure and railway system calls for concern, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) said ... More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani On Iraq
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 5:00 am | UN Human Rights Office
Iraq's new law criminilising consensual same-sex relations and other private consensual behaviour runs contrary to several human rights treaties and conventions ratified by Iraq, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and ... More >>
UNDP Pacific-Pacific Islands Forum Sign Memorandum Of Understanding
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 4:23 am | UNDP Pacific Centre
The agreement will strengthen sustainable development initiatives across the region while recognising the importance of regional cooperation and the collective endeavour required to advance the Sustainable Development Goals. More >>
New Zealand Defence Force Wraps Up Raft Of Solomon Islands Support
Monday, 29 April 2024, 6:36 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
The NZDF personnel were part of a Joint Task Force sent on behalf of the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, with a primary role of helping deliver polling kits, ballot boxes and election officials to remote areas of Solomon Islands. ahead of the 17 April election. More >>
May Day 2024: Trade Unions For Democracy
Monday, 29 April 2024, 4:31 am | ITUC
The ITUC For Democracy campaign is about trade unions acting now to stop the alarming decline of democracy, and the simultaneous rise in attacks on workers’ rights. More >>
Berliner Festspiele | Radical Playgrounds: From Competition To Collaboration
Sunday, 28 April 2024, 5:59 am | Berliner Festspiele
Kunstparcours At Gropius Bau Opened In The Presence Of Minister Of State Claudia Roth. It challenges rules and discovers new playing fields. More >>
World Economic Forum Convenes Special Meeting On Global Collaboration, Growth And Energy For Development
Sunday, 28 April 2024, 5:50 am | World Economic Forum
Building on the inaugural Growth Summit, held in Switzerland last year, the meeting will promote forward-thinking approaches to interconnected crises, while remaining realistic about shorter-term trade-offs. More >>
Signing The War In Gaza: Overcoming Deafness And Displacement
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 3:33 pm | UN News
UN News’s correspondent in Gaza, Ziad Talib, spoke to Mr. Al-Habal with help from his sister-in-law, Ghalia Al-Kilani, who learned sign language so she could communicate with her sister, who is also from the deaf community. More >>
World News In Brief: Support For Haiti Mission, Challenge Of ‘Commodity Dependence’, Iran's 'Strict' Hijab Law
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 3:28 pm | UN News
Following the installation of a transitional council in Haiti, seven countries officially notified the UN Secretary-General on Friday of their intention to contribute personnel to the Security Council-backed support mission for the crisis-wracked Caribbean nation. More >>
UN Updates On Probe Into Allegations Of Staff Collusion During 7 October Attacks
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 3:23 pm | UN News
A UN office investigating Israeli accusations that 12 staff members from UN Palestine relief agency UNRWA were involved in the 7 October Hamas-led attacks has closed one of the cases because Israel had not provided any supporting evidence, UN Spokesperson ... More >>
Campus Activism For Gaza Ignites
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 3:19 pm | Globetrotter
Students at more than 40 universities and colleges in the United States and around the world have lit a fire under the Palestine solidarity movement by setting up encampments on their campuses. More >>
How Banks And Investors Are Fueling A Global Biodiversity Crisis
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 2:57 pm | Independent Media Institute
Commercial financial flows to the forest-risk commodity sectors are driving the majority of tropical deforestation. More >>
India’s Billionaire Wealth Is On Display As Nation Votes
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 2:52 pm | Independent Media Institute
India’s Ambani family has enjoyed flaunting its obscene wealth, a perfect reminder in the midst of an election, of the economic inequality afflicting voters. More >>
United States: Project South & Civil Rights Orgs Denounce Mass Arrests At Emory University
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 2:23 pm | Project South
We demand that Emory University President Gregory Fenves immediately resign after failing to protect students’ and protestors’ physical safety and right to freespeech and demonstration. More >>
‘Just In Case’ Antibiotics Widely Overused During COVID-19, Says UN Health Agency
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 6:45 am | UN News
Antibiotics saw “extensive overuse” globally among hospitalized COVID-19 patients during the pandemic without improving clinical outcomes, while also potentially increasing the already serious and growing threat of antimicrobial resistance from "superbugs", ... More >>
Ukraine War: UNICEF Highlights 40 Per Cent Rise In Children Killed This Year
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 6:42 am | UN News
As deadly attacks in Ukraine continue, the UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) warned on Friday that the number of children killed so far this year has increased by nearly 40 per cent compared to 2023. Attacks that occurred between January and March left ... More >>
Climate Action ‘Cannot Trample Over The Poor’ Says Guterres
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 6:40 am | UN News
The UN Secretary-General on Friday launched an initiative focusing on ensuring fairness, sustainability, and respect for human rights throughout the entire process of sourcing and using critical minerals needed for the clean energy transition. More >>
UN Experts Demand Safe Passage For Freedom Flotilla’s Humanitarian Mission To Gaza
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 6:35 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s demands include an immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire, unrestricted access to humanitarian aid, and an end to the illegal blockade of the Gaza strip. The convoy is scheduled for imminent departure. More >>
BRIEFING NOTES: (1) Iran; (2) Sudan
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 6:34 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Spokespeople for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Jeremy Laurence (briefing from Geneva); Seif Magango (briefing from Nairobi) Date: 26 April 2024 Subject: (1) Iran - Jeremy Laurence (2) Sudan - Seif Magango (1) Iran We have received information ... More >>
Countries Resolve To Leverage Innovation, Promote Digital Inclusion For Those Furthest Behind
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 6:33 am | UN ESCAP
Governments from across Asia and the Pacific agreed today to harness technological advancements and digital innovation for sustainable development, with special attention to the region’s most vulnerable countries and population groups. The United Nations ... More >>
BIRD FLU: Leading Global Experts Comment On Increasing Avian Flu Threat In US And Worldwide
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 6:25 am | Preventing Pandemics at the Source
Avian flu virus in cattle highlights urgent need for ramped up efforts to prevent spillover of viruses from animals to people More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Marta Hurtado On Burkina Faso
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 5:43 am | UN Human Rights Office
“We are deeply disturbed by reports of the killing of large numbers of civilians, including children, in several villages in the Yatenga and Soum provinces in northern Burkina Faso in recent months in an overall context of fighting between armed groups ... More >>
Should Harming Mother Earth Be A Crime? The Case For Ecocide
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 5:06 am | Independent Media Institute
The destruction of nature might one day become a criminal offense adjudicated by the International Criminal Court. Environmental activists are pushing to elevate the concept of ecocide—literally, the “killing of the ecosystem”—as the fifth ... More >>
Stories From The UN Archive: UN Proclaims World’s First Earth Day
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 4:36 am | UN News
The General Assembly designated 22 April as International Mother Earth Day through a resolution adopted in 2009, but the roots of the Day go back to the 1970s. More >>
GAZA: Aid Workers Find Ghost Town And Children Living Amid Rubble In Khan Younis
Friday, 26 April 2024, 2:25 pm | Save The Children
Now Khan Younis is a ghost town, with people returning in small numbers to protect what remains of their properties or retrieve belongings while lone children roam the streets seeking water and other supplies. More >>
UNESCO Report Spotlights Harmful Effects Of Social Media On Young Girls
Friday, 26 April 2024, 2:09 pm | United Nations
Digital technologies and algorithm-driven software - especially social media - present high risks of privacy invasion, cyberbullying and distraction from learning to young girls, according to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s ... More >>
