protect Archives - Page 2 of 2

Preventing ‘contagion of atrocities’ hinges on responsibility to protect

·June 27, 2023·2 min read

“The lives of millions depend on that responsibility being given meaning,” Special Adviser on responsibility to protect (R2P) issues George Okoth-Obbo said, introducing the Secretary-General’s latest report and speaking on his behalf. “This annual debate is a reminder to us not to drift from our commitment, our duty, our responsibility to...

World Oceans Day underscores need to protect ‘the foundation of life’

Uncategorized

·June 8, 2023·2 min read

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for greater action to protect oceans in his message to mark World Oceans Day on Thursday. “The ocean is the foundation of life. It supplies the air we breathe and food we eat. It regulates our climate and weather. The ocean is our planet’s...

Uphold promise to protect civilians caught in conflict: Guterres

Uncategorized

·May 24, 2023·3 min read

The UN chief was speaking during a debate on ensuring the security and dignity of people caught in the crossfire and addressing the related issue of access to food and essential services. Suffering and ‘outrage’ “Civilians have suffered the deadly effects of armed conflict for too long. It is time...

Countries must forge ‘Global Blue Deal’ to protect the ocean: UNCTAD

Uncategorized

·May 8, 2023·3 min read

That’s according to the UN Trade and Development body UNCTAD’s Trade and Environment Review 2023, published on Monday, which analyses the world’s $3-6 billion ocean economy, and assesses how human activity and multiple global crises have significantly impacted sectors like fishing, seafood, shipping and coastal tourism. The report, presented at the 3rd UN...

UK must protect unaccompanied children seeking asylum, urge UN experts

Uncategorized

·April 11, 2023·1 min read

“We are deeply concerned at reports that unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are going missing and are at high risk of being trafficked within the UK,” the three experts, or Special Rapporteurs, said in a statement. Local authority responsibility They said that instead of being housed in hotels, children should be...

Experts demand better measures to protect children caught in conflict

Uncategorized

·February 14, 2023·2 min read

Virginia Gamba, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict, who is currently preparing her latest report, said data gathered so far reveals that trends showing high levels of violations are continuing. Nearly 24,000 grave violations were verified in 2021, the last reporting year. Most involved killing and maiming,...

Slamming ‘big formula milk companies’, WHO scientist calls for swift clampdown to protect nursing mothers

Uncategorized

·February 13, 2023·3 min read

“This new research highlights the vast economic and political power of the big formula milk companies, as well as serious public policy failures that prevent millions of women from breastfeeding their children,” said Nigel Rollins, one of the authors of a series on the $55 billion-a-year industry and their marketing...

UN ‘blueprint’ to protect least developed nations amid global slowdown

Uncategorized

·February 9, 2023·2 min read

The Doha Programme of Action, as it’s formally known, has been designed as a roadmap up to 2031, to foster strengthened commitments between the least developed countries and their development partners. “The world is reeling under the cascading impacts of complex, interlocking challenges and structural limitations and constrained fiscal capabilities...

Guatemala: Protect judicial staffers fighting impunity and corruption

Uncategorized

·January 23, 2023·1 min read

High Commissioner Volker Türk expressed deep concern over the repeated intimidation, harassment and reprisals they are facing. “It is dramatic, given Guatemala’s history, that those fighting for accountability for gross human rights violations are the ones now being persecuted,” he said. “Equally concerning are the attacks against those trying to...

UN conference concludes with ‘historic’ deal to protect a third of the world’s biodiversity

Uncategorized

·December 20, 2022·2 min read

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework also aims to cut food waste in half. COP15 was originally set to be held in Kunming, China, in October 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘Strengthen the web of life’ The Framework, and its associated package of targets, goals and...

‘Critical opportunity’ to protect against biological warfare, countries hear

Uncategorized

·November 29, 2022·2 min read

In a speech to the Biological Weapons Convention, Izumi Nakamitsu explained that the issue of verifying whether biological toxins are being made has been deadlocked for 20 years. “While bringing biosafety and biosecurity to a much higher prominence, the pandemic also demonstrated the disruption that could be caused if biological...

Best way to protect children caught in conflict is to ‘champion peace’ |

Uncategorized

·July 19, 2022·5 min read

In presenting the Secretary-General’s report, Virginia Gamba, highlighted current trends, patterns of grave violations, and existing and emerging challenges in “the protection of children used and abused by, in and for armed conflict”. Prolific abuses From South Sudan to Afghanistan and elsewhere, last year the UN verified 23,982 grave violations...