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Mali: COVID-19 and conflict lead to rise in child trafficking
01 December 2020
Child trafficking is rising in Mali, along with forced labour and forced recruitment by armed groups, due to conflict, insecurity and the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday.
Some 230 cases of child recruitment were reported during the first half of the year, compared with 215 cases for the whole of 2019, according to a UNHCR-backed study.
Armed groups are also…
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UN humanitarian office puts Yemen war dead at 233,000, mostly from ‘indirect causes’
01 December 2020
Almost a quarter of a million people have died in Yemen’s war, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on its website on Tuesday, confirming the huge toll from a conflict that has ravaged Yemen’s economy and created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
OCHA included the figure in an update within its latest Global Humanitarian Overview,…
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Global agreement on migration 'taking root' despite pandemic challenge: Guterres
01 December 2020
The Global Compact for Migration, adopted by countries in 2018 as a comprehensive framework for cooperation on international migration, is “taking root in promising ways”, the UN Secretary General said on Tuesday.
“The Compact reflects a growing global understanding of the great benefits of human mobility. But it also recognizes that, if poorly managed, migration…
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COVID-19 can spark new generation of social protection measures: UN chief
01 December 2020
While COVID-19 has wiped out important development gains in mere months, with extreme poverty rising for the first time in decades, the pandemic could spark the transformations needed to achieve stronger social protection systems, the UN Secretary-General said on Tuesday.
António Guterres was speaking at an event to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the World Summit for Social…
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INTERVIEW: Economic and Social Council ‘vital to promote global peace and global cooperation’
01 December 2020
Munir Akram wears two hats. He is Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN and was elected on 23 July as the 76th President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC); one of the three main bodies that provide the backbone of the United Nations.
His impressive diplomatic portfolio includes serving as Pakistan’s Ambassador to the European Council of the European Union,…
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UNHCR asks Ethiopia for urgent access to 96,000 Eritreans cut off without food
01 December 2020
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, appealed to Ethiopia on Tuesday for urgent access to 96,000 Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, saying the month-long conflict in Tigray had left them without vital supplies.
“With our concerns growing by the hour, we are appealing to the federal authorities of #Ethiopia that access should be urgently provided to us in the #Tigray…
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REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE
01 December 2020
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, the World Health Organization, the International Drug Purchase Facility - Unitaid, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the International Telecommunication Union, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Meteorological Organization.
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UNCTAD virtual press conference
01 December 2020
Press Conference Announcement
Embargo until Thursday, 3 December 2020 at 6 a.m. GMT (7:00 a.m. Geneva time)
Dr Mukhisa Kituyi, UNCTAD Secretary-General
Paul Akiwumi, Director, Division for Africa and LDCs, UNCTAD
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Presentation of the Least Developed Countries Report 2020 - Productive capacities for the new decade
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A ‘digital canyon’: 1.3 billion school-aged children can’t log on to internet at home
01 December 2020
A staggering two-thirds of world’s school-aged children – 1.3 billion children aged 3-17 – do not have internet connection in their homes, preventing them from learning vital skills needed to compete in the modern economy, a new UN report has revealed.
Two-thirds of children + young people do not have Internet access at home https://t.co/tyJT9OjF5V@ITU + @UNICEF call…
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UN urges ‘global solidarity, shared responsibility’ against pandemics, marking World AIDS Day
01 December 2020
The United Nations is commemorating World AIDS Day, on Tuesday, with a call for “global solidarity and shared responsibility” to overcome not only COVID-19, but also AIDS – another global pandemic that is still with us nearly 40 years after it emerged.
In a message, Secretary-General António Guterres urged the world to not lose sight of Acquired Immune…
