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At critical moment for peacekeeping in Africa, Ghana steps up to host key summit

·September 23, 2023·1 min read

The gathering of defence ministers and others committed to peacekeeping efforts will focus on civilian protection, addressing misinformation and disinformation, promoting safety and security, protecting mental health, and boosting the pivotal role of women in UN missions. Ghana’s Foreign Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, together with senior UN officials, said the...

South Sudan: Key electoral questions ‘remain unanswered’

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·September 16, 2023·2 min read

With 15 months to the end of the transition period, “time is of the essence” for getting the election process settled, UN Special Representative for South Sudan, Nicholas Haysom told the Security Council. “Critical questions remain unanswered. Resolving them does not require material resources, only the political will to reach...

Accountability key to Sri Lanka’s future: UN rights chief

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·September 6, 2023·3 min read

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, stressed the urgency of addressing these challenges if the country is to move forward, recalling the 2022 anti-Government protests demanding a fairer and more inclusive society. “But the potential for a historic transformation that would address long-standing challenges is far from being...

Transforming food systems, key to get SDGs back on track: Mohammed

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·July 27, 2023·1 min read

According to development indicators, almost half of the SDG targets are moderately or severely off track, and 37 per cent are showing no change. “Transforming our food systems is one key to getting the world back on track and reversing these worrying trends,” Amina J. Mohammed said at the closing...

The UN’s milestone operation to salvage Yemen’s stricken oil tanker: Key questions answered

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·July 27, 2023·5 min read

The task of transferring a million barrels of oil from the stricken supertanker Yemen, will take some 19 days – preventing what would be the fifth largest spill in history, were the rusting tanker to break apart. But this process will not end with the oil transfer, because the FSO...

Sustainable Africa key to global security

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·July 22, 2023·1 min read

The discussions centred around a UN report that offers recommendations to bolster collaboration towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa, specifically those on financing for development and affordable green energy. The report reveals that almost 600 million people on the continent still do not have access to sustainable...

Cooperation key to weathering climate crisis, growing inequality, new tech challenge: Guterres

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·July 5, 2023·2 min read

António Guterres was addressing the Council of The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the world’s largest regional security body in terms of landmass and population which currently includes China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and new member Iran. The UN has had a cooperation agreement with the Asia-focused SCO...

World off track for reaching key goal on sustainable energy by 2030

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·June 6, 2023·2 min read

Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report, from the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the UN Statistics Division (UNSD), the World Bank, and the World Health Organization (WHO), warns that current efforts are not enough to achieve the SDG 7 on time. There has been...

Guterres convenes meeting in Doha to discuss key issues in Afghanistan

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·May 1, 2023·1 min read

The aim is to reinvigorate international engagement around key issues, such as human rights, in particular women’s and girls’ rights, inclusive governance, countering terrorism and drug trafficking. “The meeting is intended to achieve a common understanding within the international community on how to engage with the Taliban on these issues,”...

New UK law curtails key civil and political rights: UN rights chief

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·April 28, 2023·1 min read

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called the Public Order Bill “deeply troubling legislation”, after it completed its passage through parliament on Wednesday. “It is especially worrying that the law expands the powers of the police to stop and search individuals, including without suspicion; defines some of the...

Urgent investment needed to improve conditions for key workers: ILO

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·March 15, 2023·2 min read

“In a number of countries, key sectors are facing labour shortages, because people are increasingly reluctant to engage in work which is not properly, adequately, fairly valued by society and rewarded in terms of better pay and improved working conditions,” said Manuela Tomei, Assistant Director-General for Governance, Rights and Dialogue at the International Labour Organization...

Amid ‘spy balloon’ controversy, WMO highlights key role of weather balloons in climate monitoring

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·February 18, 2023·2 min read

On the heels of recent news reports about Canada and the United States shooting down several flying objects, including an alleged Chinese ‘spy balloon’, inside their borders, WMO points out that weather balloons provide just a tiny fraction of the millions of observations gathered worldwide daily. On Thursday, US President...