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COVID-19 has exposed endemic gender inequality, Guterres tells UN Women’s commission
15 March 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on women and girls, and the fallout has shown how deeply gender inequality remains embedded in the world’s political, social and economic systems, UN chief António Guterres said in his address to the Commission on the Status of Women, on Monday. This year’s Commission will focus on charting a global roadmap towards achieving full…
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OSE Virtual press stakeout
15 March 2021
Press Conference Announcement
Geir O. Pedersen, UN Special Envoy for Syria, via remote in Olso
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Virtual press stakeout by the UN Special Envoy for Syria, following his briefing to the Security Council on Monday, 15 March
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MORNING - Human Rights Council Concludes its General Debate on Human Rights Situations that Require the Council’s Attention
15 March 2021
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this morning concluded its general debate on human rights situations that require the Council’s attention.
Some speakers said civil space was shrinking across the world as human rights defenders, protestors and journalists were facing ever-more hostile environments. Some speakers emphasised that the promotion and protection of human rights must comply with the principles of State sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and non-interference in internal affairs of States. Certain…
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Allies of South Sudan militias must be held accountable: UN human rights report
15 March 2021
Military and political officials in South Sudan supporting community-based militias in the Greater Jonglei region, must be held accountable for violence that killed more than 700 people over a six-month period last year, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Monday.
Between January and June 2020, organized and heavily-armed militias from the Dinka, Nuer and Muerle…
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FROM THE FIELD: Syrian photographers find hope despite 10 years of civil war
15 March 2021
The pain and deprivation of individual Syrians and the widespread destruction, a decade of conflict has wrought on Syria, has been documented in a series of images taken by 16 photographers working in the country.
Hundreds of thousands of people have died, and 12 million have fled their homes - half as refugees - as the 10-year-long civil war stretches into another decade.
Some…
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WHO Virtual press conference
15 March 2021
Press Conference Announcement
Dr Anshu Banerjee, Director of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing at WHO
Ornella Lincetto, Medical Officer at WHO
Kathleen Strong, Scientist at WHO
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Newborn care, child health and COVID-19
(The embargo lifts on Tuesday, 16 March at 01:00 Geneva time)
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Myanmar crisis: UN chief 'appalled' by escalating violence with dozens reported killed over weekend
15 March 2021
The UN chief on Monday issued a statement saying he was "appalled" by the reported killing over the weekend of dozens of protesters calling for the restoration of democracy, at the hands of the country's military.
Violence continues to rage across the south-east Asian nation at the hands of forces loyal to leaders of the 1 Feb military coup, and,…
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FROM THE FIELD: Solar power lights up Sudanese refugee camp
15 March 2021
In eastern Sudan, renewable energy is being trialled as a power source in UN-run refugee camps, where an influx of thousands of people fleeing conflict in Ethiopia is putting a strain on local resources, and host communities.
A woman in Um Rakuba refugee camp, in Sudan, takes part in a training session for solar cookers, UNDP Sudan
“Cutting trees is the only option, since we don’t have the…
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‘Guarantee due process’, says UN chief, following Bolivia opposition arrests
14 March 2021
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has recalled the importance of upholding due process in all legal proceedings, a day after the arrest of the former interim president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, and several former ministers.
The Secretary-General’s official spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, said in a statement released on Sunday, that the UN chief’s call was in relation to the…
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First Person: Poetry and the pain of loss and leaving; a voice from Syria
14 March 2021
A young Syrian woman has told the United Nations how poetry helped her to convey the emotions of all the children who have been caught up in the decade-long civil war in her country.
Amineh Abou Kerech’s poem “Lament for Syria” won the United Kingdom’s Betjeman Poetry Prize in 2017 and in February this year she read the poem at a UN event focusing on the trauma children face in times…
