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First Person: Women peacekeepers a ‘powerful image for girls in remote villages’
13 March 2021
Deputy Inspector Martina de Maria Sandoval Linares, from El Salvador always wanted to help others. Now, working as a UN Police officer, she has found her vocation, far from home in South Sudan. Ms. Linares, whose eight-year-old daughter and family are back in El Salvador, told UN News why the job is so rewarding, despite the sacrifices she makes.
“This is my first posting with…
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Urgent funding needed for Mozambique, facing ‘triple threat’ of climate change, conflict and COVID-19
13 March 2021
Two years after Tropical Cyclone Idai and Cyclone Kenneth swept through Mozambique in March 2019, killing hundreds and leaving more than two million people in need of urgent humanitarian assistance, UN chief António Guterres has recalled the devastation he witnessed first-hand, in the aftermath of one of the worst weather-related disasters ever to hit the southern…
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FROM THE FIELD: Avoiding unintended pregnancies in cash-strapped Malawi
13 March 2021
In Malawi, as in many countries across the world, funds meant for sexual reproductive health and family planning are being diverted to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and the UN has stepped in to prevent these services from grinding to a halt.
Dorica Zuze has opted for a long term family planning method to avoid crowded health centres and the danger posed by COVID-19., by © UNFPA/Joseph…
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New report details indigenous struggle for land rights
12 March 2021
Although the world’s indigenous peoples live in areas that contain around 80 per cent of the planet’s biodiversity, many still struggle to maintain their legal rights to lands, territories and resources, according to a new UN report published on Friday.
The latest edition of the State of the World’s Indigenous People report examines challenges communities face in asserting their rights to lands,…
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UN chief calls for ‘unconditional release’ of abducted students in Nigeria
12 March 2021
The UN chief on Friday, has strongly condemned the latest mass kidnapping of students in Nigeria, in the country’s northwestern region.
Late Thursday night, some 30 female and male students and as well as several school staff, were reportedly abducted by gunmen from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, just outside Kaduna city in the Igabi local government area - marking at…
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FROM THE FIELD: Syria statistics tell tragic tale of decade-long conflict
12 March 2021
Ten numbers for each year of Syria’s seemingly interminable conflict: the UN’s Humanitarian agency (OCHA) has marked this tragic milestone by highlighting in figures the country’s miserable decade of suffering and loss.
The statistics are staggering. Fighting has forced some 13 million people, more than 60 per cent of the country’s population out of their homes, and Syrians account for…
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AFTERNOON - Entrenched Harms Caused by Racism over Generations Have Been Magnified by COVID-19, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Tells the Human Rights Council
12 March 2021
Meeting Summaries
Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar: International Community Must Act Together to Let the Myanmar Junta Know there are Consequences for its Crimes
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a debate on the midterm review of the International Decade of People of African Descent. It also concluded its interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.
Nada Al Nashif, United…
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World’s crime fighters push back against COVID-19’s ‘divisions and inequalities’
12 March 2021
The world’s largest crime prevention and criminal justice gathering wrapped up on Friday, rejecting “the divisions and inequalities” exposed by COVID-19, according to the top UN crime-fighting official.
We have strengthened “crime prevention and criminal justice to address the urgent needs of today as well as the challenges of tomorrow…to leave no one behind”, said Ghada Waly…
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Latest session of UN women’s commission focuses on equality in public life
12 March 2021
Setting a global roadmap for achieving full equality at decision-making tables is among the objectives of the 65th session of the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which opens in New York on Monday.
For the first time in its history, the Commission will be held almost entirely virtually due to the ongoing pandemic, with events organized by UN Women, which works to…
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WHO backs AstraZeneca COVID vaccine amid clotting concerns; green lights Johnson & Johnson shots
12 March 2021
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that it was aware of blood clot concerns linked to “a specific batch” of AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine, but maintained that to date, no-one has died from any coronavirus vaccine.
The development comes after several European countries suspended the rollout of the jab as a precaution.
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