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UN peacekeepers saving lives but need stronger political support and resources, top official urges

8 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN peacekeepers saving lives but need stronger political support and resources, top official urges 09 September 2024 UN Photo/Christian Jonathan Guev UN peacekeepers often serve in very challenging situations, bravely protecting civilians and maintaining peace in conflict zones. As conflicts grow more complex and armed groups increasingly weaponize low-cost technologies like improvised…

New use of cluster bombs threatens global ban, report warns

8 months ago Breadcrumb Home New use of cluster bombs threatens global ban, report warns 09 September 2024 © Norwegian People's Aid/Santiago Ocampo Cluster munitions are prepared for destruction in Pisco, Peru. Cluster bomblets continue to kill thousands of civilians, mostly children, and the new use of this predominantly outlawed class of weapons is threatening efforts to universally ban them, according to a new…

Reconnect with our common humanity and reject ‘treacherous new normal’

8 months ago Breadcrumb Home Reconnect with our common humanity and reject ‘treacherous new normal’ 09 September 2024 © OHCHR/Anthony Headley Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, addresses the 57th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights delivered his annual global update on Monday, urging the international community to reject a “new normal”…

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Opens Seventy-Sixth Session

8 months ago Breadcrumb Home Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Opens Seventy-Sixth Session 09 September 2024 Meeting Summaries The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today opened its seventy-sixth session and adopted its agenda and programme of work for the session, during which it is scheduled to review the reports of Albania, Cyprus, Honduras, Iceland, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi and Poland.Opening the session,…

The world must ‘wake up and help Sudan out of the nightmare of conflict’, says WHO’s Tedros

8 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home The world must ‘wake up and help Sudan out of the nightmare of conflict’, says WHO’s Tedros 08 September 2024 © UNOCHA/Ala Kheir An internally displaced woman cooks in an open space in the El Ban Gadeed settlement in Sudan. Sudan’s health system is “near collapse” after 16 months of war have left the country and its people facing what the UN’s top health official described on Sunday as the “…

Investing in clean air can saves lives and combat climate change

8 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Investing in clean air can saves lives and combat climate change 07 September 2024 Unsplash/Luca Baggio In Landmannalaugar, Iceland (pictured) clean air is important for the health and day-to-day lives of people. The UN Secretary-General is marking ‘Clean Air Day’ with a call for global investment in solutions that tackle climate change and the increasing public health, environmental, and…

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

8 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 06 September 2024 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 press briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives from the Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Telecommunication Union, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the International…

UNICEF renews school protection call in Ukraine amid ‘deadly reality’ of attacks

8 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home UNICEF renews school protection call in Ukraine amid ‘deadly reality’ of attacks 06 September 2024 © UNICEF/Oleksii Filippov Men work at an apartment building in Poltava, a city in central Ukraine, that was damaged in an attack. Continued Russian attacks across Ukraine this week made for a tragic start to the new school year, a senior official with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a…

Gaza: 160,000 more children vaccinated against polio in southern Gaza

8 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: 160,000 more children vaccinated against polio in southern Gaza 06 September 2024 © UNICEF/Eyad El Baba UNICEF staff prepare to administer polio vaccines at a health clinic in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. More than 160,000 children were vaccinated in southern Gaza on Thursday, the first day of a polio vaccination campaign there, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said…

Sudan war: Rights probe demands wider arms embargo to end ‘rampant’ abuse

8 months 1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan war: Rights probe demands wider arms embargo to end ‘rampant’ abuse 06 September 2024 © UNICEF/Adriana Zehbrauskas A young woman walks through Kadugli town, South Kordofan state of Sudan, where sexual abuse is 'rampant', rights investigators said. Top human rights investigators into Sudan’s brutal war called on Friday for a country-wide arms embargo as they recounted…