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PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE 04 August 2023 UN Geneva Press Briefing Daniel Johnson, Officer-in-Charge of the Radio, Television and Webcast Section at the United Nations Information Service, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Meteorological Organization, and the Food and…

‘Transforming education’: Ensuring children and societies are learners

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Transforming education’: Ensuring children and societies are learners 04 August 2023 © WFP/Cassandra Prena Two young girls attend class in the mountainous and impoverished area of Jinotega, Nicaragua. The UN launched on Friday a policy brief on transforming education, which lays out a set of proposals to create inclusive and truly learning societies, and to understand education as a global…

Black Sea deal collapse sparks rise in global food prices: FAO

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home Black Sea deal collapse sparks rise in global food prices: FAO 04 August 2023 © UNODC/Duncan Moore Joint inspection teams at work under the Black Sea Initiative. Global food prices rose for the first time in months following the collapse of the landmark agreement to ship grain from war-torn Ukraine to the rest of the world, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO…

Uganda: UN human rights office to close on Saturday

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home Uganda: UN human rights office to close on Saturday 04 August 2023 © Unsplash/Antoine Plüss Mukono, un district de la région centrale de l'Ouganda. The UN human rights office in Uganda will cease operations on Sunday after the Government decided not to renew the host country agreement, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday, affirming that he “remains committed” to…

Russia: Latest Navalny sentence raises serious concerns, UN rights chief says

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home Russia: Latest Navalny sentence raises serious concerns, UN rights chief says 04 August 2023 Unsplash/Liza Pooor A demonstration in support of Aleksei Navalny takes place in London, UK in early 2021. The new sentence imposed on jailed Russian politician Alexei Navalny on Friday raises renewed serious concerns about judicial harassment and instrumentalization of the country’s court system for…

Nurturing future generations through breastfeeding

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home Nurturing future generations through breastfeeding 04 August 2023 Ⓒ WFP/Arete/Siegfried Modola Christine breastfeeds her baby boy, Alvin, to provide him with the healthiest start to life. Christine, her son, and her mother are among 100,000 refugees, mostly women and children, living in a camp in northwestern Uganda, served by the World Food Programme (WFP) and its partners, which are…

Nearly 14 million children in Sudan need humanitarian support: UNICEF

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home Nearly 14 million children in Sudan need humanitarian support: UNICEF 04 August 2023 © UNICEF/Abdulazeem Mohamed Children displaced by conflict in Sudan are now living in Atbara. Two senior UN humanitarian officials have called for more funding and less bureaucratic impediments to support civilians affected by the war in Sudan, including roughly 14 million children…

The eerie silence of starvation ‘is deafening, it never leaves you’: UN official

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home The eerie silence of starvation ‘is deafening, it never leaves you’: UN official 03 August 2023 © WFP/Sadeq Naseri A family in a village in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan eat food received from the UN. The threat of famine, with people slowly starving to death, must be considered a red line for international peace and security, the UN Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator said on…

FAO raises alarm on escalating food crisis in Sudan  

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home FAO raises alarm on escalating food crisis in Sudan   03 August 2023 © UNFPA/Sufian Adbul-Mouty Women, pregnant or with young children, wait for appointments at a maternity hospital in Port Sudan (file).. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has issued a grave warning regarding the deepening food crisis in Sudan, as the country grapples with conflict and economic decline. …

Colombia: Guterres welcomes start of ceasefire between Government and ELN

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home Colombia: Guterres welcomes start of ceasefire between Government and ELN 03 August 2023 UN Photo/Mark Garten Secretary-General António Guterres briefs journalists at the launch of his report on Information Integrity on Digital Platforms. UN Secretary-General António Guterres congratulated the Government of Colombia and the National Liberation Army (ELN) on the start of their bilateral…