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UN deputy chief warns of faltering progress towards SDGs

·March 14, 2023·3 min read

“Let me be frank: we are not doing well. Our progress towards the SDGs has faltered and even gone into reverse on some important targets and Goals, leaving many behind,” she said in opening remarks to the Arab Forum for Sustainable Development (AFSD) in Beirut, Lebanon. World leaders adopted the...

UNICEF warns of deepening inequalities in Europe and Central Asia

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·March 10, 2023·2 min read

The report on children’s rights is the first of its kind to bring together existing data and analysis for all countries in the region, while highlighting critical data gaps that need to be filled. Data deficit UNICEF Regional Director Afshan Khan said the war in Ukraine, the pandemic, climate change...

Avian flu reappears in Cambodia, UN health agency warns

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·February 27, 2023·3 min read

These are the first cases of avian influenza, known as H5N1, reported in Cambodia since a widespread outbreak in 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The infection, which largely affects animals, has a 50 per cent mortality rate in humans. “The global H5N1 situation is worrying given the wide...

78 million children don’t go to school at all, warns UN chief in call for action

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·February 16, 2023·4 min read

Lending his support to a call for more funding for education in emergencies spearheaded by the UN global fund Education Cannot Wait (ECW) the UN chief insisted in a video message that no-one should be denied their chance to learn. A full 222 million children today experience blighted education today, Mr. Guterres...

New UN report warns of spike in gang attacks, ‘gross human rights abuses’ in Haiti

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·February 11, 2023·2 min read

“The findings of this report are horrifying,” said Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, during a visit to Haiti this week. “It paints a picture of how people are being harassed and terrorized by criminal gangs for months without the State being able to stop it. It...

Nigeria: UN genocide expert warns against worsening security situation

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·February 6, 2023·1 min read

Alice Nderitu expressed her strongest condemnation for the 24 January airstrike in which at least 40 herders, mainly ethnic Fulani, were killed, and scores of other civilians were injured. The incident occurred in a village on the border of two states, Nasarawa and Benue. She recalled that another airstrike in...

Myanmar mired ever deeper in crisis as human rights spiral backwards, warns Türk

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·January 27, 2023·3 min read

“By nearly every feasible measurement, and in every area of human rights – economic, social and cultural, as much as civil and political – Myanmar has profoundly regressed,” he said. “Despite clear legal obligations for the military to protect civilians in the conduct of hostilities, there has been consistent disregard...

Palestinian refugees face hitting ‘rock bottom’, warns UNRWA in $1.6 billion appeal

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·January 24, 2023·2 min read

Head of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, told journalists in Geneva that competing global crises, and skyrocketing levels of poverty and unemployment among Palestine refugees, have put immense strain on them – and the agency – which started the year some $70 million in arrears. “On the one hand we are asked...

Northern Ireland: UK ‘immunity’ legislation could hamper victims’ rights, warns Türk

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·January 19, 2023·1 min read

The High Commissioner for Human Rights acknowledged on Thursday that addressing the violent legacy of intercommunal relations in Northern Ireland from the 1960s to the 1990s was “hugely complex and sensitive”. ‘Conditional immunity’ But he warned against plans to give conditional immunity from investigation and prosecution to those accused of serious human...

New US border policy poses risk to fundamental rights, warns UN’s Türk

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·January 12, 2023·1 min read

Taking aim at the expected rise in so-called “expedited removals” from the United States, Mr. Türk also criticised the intention to use the COVID pandemic-related Title 42 public health order even more than today. Fast-track expulsion The move will permit the “fast-track expulsion to Mexico” of 30,000 Venezuelans, Haitians, Cubans...

Iran: UN rights chief Türk warns against further ‘State-sanctioned killing’

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·January 11, 2023·2 min read

Volker Türk’s allegation that criminal proceedings and the death penalty had been weaponized to stamp out dissent, follows the execution in the last months of four people involved in nationwide protests, that were sparked by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, in September. “The weaponization of criminal procedures to punish...

New US border measures ‘not in line with international standards’, warns UNHCR

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·January 8, 2023·1 min read

According to reports, the reforms would deny migrants the chance to seek asylum in the US if they crossed from Mexico into the US without permission. But President Biden also said that up to 30,000 people per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela could come legally, if they meet...