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Colombian conflict survivors turn forest heroes in search of climate change solutions

·November 17, 2024·6 min read

This waterway, a silent witness to the turmoil of the municipality of Mapiripán, has seen it all – the wildlife trafficking, the coca harvests that fuelled conflict, the human bodies left behind amid a heinous massacre and the relentless erosion of the rainforest it once nourished. Now, Sandra hopes it...

Stop global warming to turn the tide on sea-level rise: UN Assembly President

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·September 25, 2024·3 min read

The situation is critical, said UN General Assembly President Philémon Yang, who convened the high-level meeting. He noted that estimates indicate up to 1.2 billion people could be forcibly displaced. “For those on the front lines, the impacts of rising seas threaten livelihoods, inflict damage to settlements and critical infrastructure, and...

Guterres: ‘We can turn the tide’ towards ending colonialism

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·May 29, 2023·2 min read

“Our shared goal is to give greater priority to the decolonization agenda and spur accelerated action,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Special Committee on Decolonization, or C-24, regional seminar. Established by the General Assembly in 1961, the Committee is mandated to examine the application of the Declaration on the...

Don’t let SDGs turn into ‘mirage of what might have been’: UN chief

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·April 17, 2023·2 min read

The Secretary-General pointed to reports showing that, since the pandemic, the richest one percent of people around the world have captured nearly twice as much new wealth as the rest of the world combined. Inequalities within some countries, he said, are regressing towards early 20th Century levels, a time when...

INTERVIEW: Turn the tide on water crisis with game-changing commitments, urge co-hosts of UN conference

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·February 28, 2023·8 min read

Bringing together Governments, institutions, banks, businesses, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), youth, women, indigenous peoples and many other stakeholders from around the world, the UN 2023 Water Conference (22 to 24 March) will seek to find game-changing solutions to the multifaceted global crisis of ‘too much water’, such as storms and floods;...

Iraq must seize ‘brief window of opportunity’ to turn tide of instability

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·February 6, 2023·3 min read

Highlighting recent achievements and challenges ahead following a year of tensions and political discord, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert said the hope is that the confirmation of the new Government will provide an opportunity to structurally address the many pressing issues. ‘Glass half full’ “Effecting meaningful change will take time, as this can...

Peacekeepers turn ground-breakers in the Central African Republic |

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·October 30, 2022·4 min read

Operating an excavator, a bulldozer or a wheel loader did not come naturally to Chief Private Ryan Herdhika, an avid motorcyclist and soldier in the Indonesian Army’s 3rd Combat Engineering Battalion. But he has just passed his heavy engineering equipment test and will next month be deployed to the United...

Bosnia and Herzegovina: UN rights chief urges leaders to ‘turn the page on rhetoric’ |

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·June 25, 2022·3 min read

The four-day mission marked the first visit by a UN human rights High Commissioner in more than two decades, and she noted that some of the same rights challenges from that era persist today. Ms. Bachelet hailed an “unprecedented ruling” handed down this week, sentencing three people for incitement to hatred...