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WHO virtual press conference
24 November 2020
Press Conference Announcement
WHO launches new recommendations on how to stay active and healthy for everyone. They include specific guidance for women throughout pregnancy and post-partum, people living with disabilities, elderly persons and people with diabetes and hypertension.
Dr Ruediger Krech, Director for Health Promotion, World Health Organization
Dr Fiona Bull, Unit head, Physical Activity, World Health Organization
Juana Willumsen, Technical Officer, Physical Activity, World Health Organization
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Press readout - 2020 AFGHANISTAN CONFERENCE
24 November 2020
Press Conference Announcement
Pekka Haavisto, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of Finland
Deborah Lyons, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA)
Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal, Minister of Finance, Government of Afghanistan
The readout will be broadcast on webtv.un.org. There will be no questions and answers.
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2020 Afghanistan Conference
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Fears of Desert Locust resurgence in Horn of Africa
24 November 2020
The Desert Locust crisis which struck the greater Horn of Africa region earlier this year threatening food supplies for millions, could re-escalate as recent strong winds carried mature swarmlets from southern Somalia into eastern and northeastern Kenya, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday.
Although some of the swarmlets that reached Kenya may have already laid eggs before…
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Opening of the virtual 2020 Afghanistan Conference
24 November 2020
| Tatiana Valovaya
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Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the Palais des Nations in Geneva, particularly today.
The continued commitment of the international community to the people of Afghanistan is a silver lining during these trying times.
I wish to thank the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Government of Finland for co-hosting this important pledging conference, together with the United Nations, and the Government of Switzerland for making the conference possible in Geneva.
Decades of sustained conflict, natural…
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UN ‘extremely concerned’ for safety of Tigray civilians in regional capital, as refugee numbers grow
24 November 2020
The UN on Monday said it was “extremely concerned” over the safety of civilians across Ethiopia’s Tigray region, as fighting between Government troops and those loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) reportedly continued, with the Ethiopian Prime Minister having called on opposition forces to surrender the capital Mekelle, by Wednesday.
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‘Real hope’ surrounding COVID vaccines ‘cannot be overstated’ – WHO chief
23 November 2020
Along with other tried and tested public health measures, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) told journalists on Monday that “there is now real hope” that vaccines will play an essential part in helping end the COVID pandemic.
“With the latest positive news from vaccine trials, the light at the end of this long, dark tunnel is growing brighter”, said Director-General…
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UN expert calls for urgent action to end ‘pandemic of femicide and violence against women’
23 November 2020
COVID-19 is overshadowing what has become a “pandemic of femicide” and related gender-based violence against women and girls, said independent UN human rights expert Dubravka Šimonović on Monday, calling for the universal establishment of national initiatives to monitor and prevent such killings.
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Afghanistan: UN’s Grandi and Bachelet put plea for lasting ceasefire top of their wishlist
23 November 2020
Two top UN officials called for an end to the long-running conflict in Afghanistan on Monday, telling a major conference in Geneva that normality could only return to the country if there was a sustained ceasefire.
Speaking at the Afghanistan 2020 Conference, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet and UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo…
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Somalia at a crossroad, UN envoy urges ‘deepened’ political consensus
23 November 2020
The “broad political consensus” reached in September that ended a two-year stalemate in Somalia must be “preserved and indeed deepened”, the country’s UN envoy told the Security Council on Monday.
Although the agreed model of voting “regrettably fell short” of the constitutional requirement for parliamentary elections based on the principle of universal suffrage, Special Representative…
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Carbon dioxide levels hit new record; COVID impact ‘a tiny blip’, WMO says
23 November 2020
Levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere hit a new record of 410.5 parts per million in 2019, and are expected to keep rising this year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin on Monday.
“We breached the global threshold of 400 parts per million in 2015. And just four years later, we crossed 410 ppm. Such a rate of…
