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PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE 08 September 2023 UN Geneva Press Briefing Rolando Gómez, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives from the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations Human Rights Council, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the United Nations Children'…

No legal grounds for Russian ‘so-called elections’ in occupied Ukraine: UN official

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home No legal grounds for Russian ‘so-called elections’ in occupied Ukraine: UN official 08 September 2023 © UNDP/Oleksandr Ratushniak Workers clear debris following a bombing in Irpin, Ukraine. (file) The so-called elections held by Russia in occupied areas of Ukraine “have no legal grounds”, a senior political affairs official said on Friday, reiterating UN’s commitment to the sovereignty and…

UNHCR: more than 7 million refugee children out of school

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home UNHCR: more than 7 million refugee children out of school 08 September 2023 © UNHCR/Anna Liminowicz A young girl from Ukraine plays at her temporary home at the Kapelanka hostel in Poland. By the end of 2022, the number of school-aged refugees globally jumped nearly 50 per cent. More than seven million refugee children are out of school globally according to UN data – that’s more than half…

DR Congo: Few worse places to be a child warns UNICEF as twins found boobytrapped

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home DR Congo: Few worse places to be a child warns UNICEF as twins found boobytrapped 08 September 2023 © UNICEF/Jospin Benekire A mother and two children walk through a camp for displaced people in Goma, in the eastern DR Congo Violence against children in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has descended to a new low, amid reports that months old twins were found abandoned with…

Lebanon: School occupations condemned as violence grips Palestine refugee camp

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home Lebanon: School occupations condemned as violence grips Palestine refugee camp 08 September 2023 近东救济工程处/Mohamad Eyadeh 艾因·哈勒瓦难民营是目前黎境内12个巴勒斯坦难民营中最大的一个。 Thousands of children have been put at risk amid a resurgence of violence at a Palestine refugee camp in Lebanon, the UN’s top humanitarian official in the country said on Friday…

Come together ‘for the common good’, UN chief urges G20 leaders

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home Come together ‘for the common good’, UN chief urges G20 leaders 08 September 2023 UN India/Ruhani Kaur UN Secretary-General António Guterres is received by the Joint Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, Prakash Gupta on his arrival in New Delhi for the G20 summit. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has arrived in New Delhi for the annual G20 summit with a “simple but urgent appeal”…

Window to reach climate goals ‘rapidly closing’, UN report warns

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home Window to reach climate goals ‘rapidly closing’, UN report warns 08 September 2023 © Unsplash/Viktor Lysenko Fossil fuels are the largest contributor to global climate change. The world is not on track to meet the long-term goals set out in the Paris Agreement for limiting global temperature rise, a major UN report warned on Friday, calling for a commitment to decisive action…

UNESCO calls for regulations on AI use in schools

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home UNESCO calls for regulations on AI use in schools 07 September 2023 © UNICEF/Mary Gelman Publicly available GenAI platforms are used by hundreds of millions around the world, including many students. The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Thursday called on governments to regulate the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in education and research,…

Gender gap persists on road to the SDGs: UN Women

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home Gender gap persists on road to the SDGs: UN Women 07 September 2023 © WFP/Alessandro Abbonizio Drought in Kenya (pictured) and other countries in the Horn of Africa affects the most vulnerable women and children. The world is falling worryingly short in terms of closing the gender gap as part of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) warned UN Women on Thursday…

More women police means ‘safer future for everyone’: Guterres

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home More women police means ‘safer future for everyone’: Guterres 07 September 2023 UN Photo/Olivia Grey Pritchard United Nations Police (UNPOL) interview Sudanese refugees in the Farchana camp in Chad. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres commended law enforcement agencies around the world on Thursday stressing that more women in policing will “build a safer future for everyone.”…