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UN agencies urge Security Council to stop ‘mass graves for migrants’

·September 30, 2024·3 min read

“The scale of this tragedy, its impact on survivors, families and communities and the frequency with which we witness deaths in transit constitute an intolerable and utterly soluble, humanitarian crisis,” said Pär Liljert, director of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Office to the UN, referring to one of the...

UN agencies urge action to safeguard maternal, child health amidst climate crisis

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·November 21, 2023·2 min read

In Protecting maternal, newborn and child health from the impacts of climate change, the World Health Organization (WHO), UN Population Fund (UNFPA), and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) jointly underscore the neglect, underreporting, and underestimation of climate events’ effects on maternal and child health. It also draws attention to the importance...

At UN, Horn of Africa nations urge global solidarity and real reform

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·September 24, 2023·4 min read

Leaders from Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea painted a grim picture of a planet marred by the unforgiving impacts of climate change. They left no room for equivocation: This is an existential crisis that demands immediate, collective action. They highlighted the upcoming COP-28 climate conference in the United Arab Emirates...

Ethiopia: De-escalate tensions in Amhara, international rights experts urge

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·August 13, 2023·1 min read

On 4 August, the Ethiopian Council of Ministers declared a state of emergency in the region after, according to media reports, the regional leader said he was no longer able to contain a surge of violence between a local militia and the army over a disputed plan to absorb the...

‘Let’s make breastfeeding at work, work’, urge UN agencies

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·August 2, 2023·1 min read

In the last decade, the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding has increased by a remarkable 10 percentage points, to 48 per cent globally, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Promoting and supporting breastfeeding at workplaces can help drive the progress higher and towards the...

South Sudan: UN agencies urge immediate action to avert deepening food crisis

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·August 1, 2023·1 min read

During a three-day visit to the country, Qu Dongyu, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP); and Alvaro Lario, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) witnessed the devastating effects of severe weather events and a...

Rights experts urge Uruguay to prioritise water use for human consumption

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·July 17, 2023·1 min read

“The continuous decline in water quality due to increased salinity levels in its composition is alarming. This situation significantly impacts vulnerable groups, such as children and adolescents, pregnant women and people suffering from chronic diseases,” they said in a statement. Water privatization fears Although health authorities have urged vulnerable groups to...

UK must protect unaccompanied children seeking asylum, urge UN experts

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·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...

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;...

WHO continues to urge China to share more data amid COVID-19 surge

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·January 5, 2023·4 min read

“We continue to ask China for more rapid, regular, reliable data on hospitalizations and deaths, as well as more comprehensive, real-time viral sequencing,” he said, speaking from Geneva. WHO is concerned about the risk to life in the world’s most populous country and reiterated the importance of stepping up vaccination...

Rights experts urge UK to redraft controversial Northern Ireland bill

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·December 19, 2022·2 min read

The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill was introduced in Parliament in May and passed a second reading in the House of Lords last month. Further review is set to take place in January. Little access to remedy The UN experts are concerned that the Bill bans, and...

Saudi Arabia: Quash death sentence for Jordanian convicted of drug offences, urge UN experts

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·December 2, 2022·2 min read

“Under international law, States that have not yet abolished the death penalty may only impose it for the ‘most serious crimes’, involving intentional killing”, the UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts said in a statement, continuing to urge the Saudi Government to “abolish the death penalty for drug convictions”. Hussein Abo...