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UN reports ‘leap forward’ in regulating DNA-altering technology to benefit all
12 July 2021
Releasing two companion reports on Monday, the UN health agency has provided the first global recommendations for DNA-altering technology, known as human genome editing, to be used as a safe, effective and ethical public health tool to benefit everyone.
“Human genome editing has the potential to advance our ability to treat and cure disease, but the full impact will only be…
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Conflict, climate change, COVID, forces more people into hunger
12 July 2021
Global hunger levels have skyrocketed because of conflict, climate change and the economic impact of COVID-19; and one in five children around the world is stunted, UN agencies warned on Monday.
New data that represents the first comprehensive global assessment of food insecurity carried out since the coronavirus pandemic began, indicates that the number of people affected by chronic hunger in…
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FAO/WFP/UNICEF virtual Press Conference
12 July 2021
Press Conference Announcement
Speakers:
Mr. Marco Sanchez, Deputy Director, FAO Agrifood Economics Division (co-author SOFI 2021)
Ms. Anne Kepple, Food Security and Nutrition Monitoring Consultant (co-author SOFI 2021)
Mr. Dominique Burgeon, Director of the FAO Liaison Office with the UN in Geneva
Ms. Annalisa Conte, Director, WFP Geneva Global Office
Ms. Vilma Tyler, Senior Adviser, Nutrition, UNICEF
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MIDDAY - High Commissioner to Human Rights Council: Law Enforcement Officials must be Held Accountable for Crimes against People of African Descent and Alternative Approaches to Policing should be Applied
12 July 2021
Meeting Summaries
Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, today told the Human Rights Council that the murder of George Floyd was a tipping point, which had shifted the world’s attention to the human rights violations routinely endured by Africans and people of African descent. She said that law enforcement officials must be held accountable for crimes against people of African descent and alternative approaches to policing…
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Committee against Torture Opens Seventy-first Session Online
12 July 2021
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The Committee against Torture this afternoon opened its seventy-first session online, hearing a statement by Antti Korkeakivi, Chief, Anti-Torture, Coordination and Funds Section, Human Rights Treaties Branch, at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee also adopted its agenda for the session.
Mr. Korkeakivi noted that the work of all ten human rights treaty bodies had been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, while human rights violations continued to affect victims of torture and human rights defenders.
In such circumstances, he welcomed the joint…
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MORNING - Human Rights Council Holds Panel Discussion on Technical Cooperation to Advance the Right to Education
12 July 2021
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The Human Rights Council this morning held its annual thematic panel discussion on technical assistance and capacity building with a focus on technical cooperation to advance the right to education and ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all.
Mahamane Cissé-Gouro, Officer-in-Charge of the Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, stated that education was not only a fundamental human right in itself: it also…
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‘We are with you’: The South African care centres providing hope for survivors of sexual violence
11 July 2021
In South Africa, a sexual offence is committed every ten minutes, and the number is rising, according to official police statistics. The UN is working closely with the Government to ensure that care centres have the resources to help survivors of sexual violence across the country, including the most deprived regions.
In the Sinawe Thuthuzela Care Centre,…
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FROM THE FIELD: Desert artisans in Mali foster dialogue and tolerance
11 July 2021
Traditional arts and crafts are being used to build peace and dialogue in Mali thanks to the work of the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, MINUSMA.
Some 360 artisans based around Menaka, in the far northeast of the West African nation, some of whom fled as refugees to neighbouring Niger, have been encouraged to return to the town’s newly restored House of Artisans to practice a range…
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Ensure reproductive health rights for all on World Population Day: UN chief
11 July 2021
Erosion of women’s reproductive rights has been one of the fallouts from the COVID-19 pandemic, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said.
In his message for World Population Day, observed on Sunday, the UN chief called for closing gaps in access to sexual and reproductive health services which the crisis has created.
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The pandemic “continues to upend our world,…
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FROM THE FIELD: South Sudan’s displaced youth, help power change
10 July 2021
Young people who were displaced by conflict in South Sudan have returned home to power change in their community.
Hundreds of thousands of people, young and old, were forced to flee their homes over recent years following civil war and widespread insecurity in the eastern African country.
Thirty young men and women in the city of Wau,…
