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Bahrain’s pearling legacy: Reviving a millennia-old culture

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Bahrain’s pearling legacy: Reviving a millennia-old culture 01 March 2025 Danat/Bahrain A diver is diving for pearls in Bahrain. Pearling in the Persian Gulf shaped Bahrain’s economy for millennia. Bahrain, with its shallow waters and rich oyster beds, has long been synonymous with pearls, which formed the backbone of the island nation’s economy for thousands of years. Diving for pearls,…

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Concludes Seventy-Seventh Session after Adopting Concluding Observations on Reports of Croatia, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda and the United Kingdom

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Concludes Seventy-Seventh Session after Adopting Concluding Observations on Reports of Croatia, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda and the United Kingdom 28 February 2025 Meeting Summaries The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon concluded its seventy-seventhsession after adopting concluding observationson the reports of Croatia, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda…

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 28 February 2025 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Trade and Development. Escalating attacks on education in HaitiGeetanjali Narayan, United Nations Children…

Haiti: Massive surge in child armed group recruitment, warns UNICEF

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Haiti: Massive surge in child armed group recruitment, warns UNICEF 28 February 2025 © IOM/Antoine Lemonnier People who fled their homes due to violence are now living in a school. The ongoing emergency in Haiti is crushing children’s chances of an education and a better future as scores of youngsters are recruited by heavily armed and violent gangs, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned…

Gaza: Unified Arab position will ‘help guide the way forward’

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Unified Arab position will ‘help guide the way forward’ 28 February 2025 © UNICEF/Mohammed Nateel Los gazatíes regresan a sus vecindarios devastados en el norte de Gaza. UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday stressed that the fragile ceasefire in Gaza must hold, urging all parties to honour their commitments and prevent a breakdown of the agreement…

US aid cuts will make world ‘less healthy, less safe and less prosperous’: Guterres

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home US aid cuts will make world ‘less healthy, less safe and less prosperous’: Guterres 28 February 2025 UN Photo/Manuel Elías Secretary-General António Guterres speaks to the press at the UN Headquarters, in New York. UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Friday that severe cuts to humanitarian and development funding by the United States will have devastating consequences for…

Alarming trends in nuclear material trafficking highlight urgent security gaps

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Alarming trends in nuclear material trafficking highlight urgent security gaps 28 February 2025 © IAEA/D. Calma Continuity of evidence is important to ensure chain of custody in any investigation that involves nuclear forensics. There were just under 150 incidents of illegal or unauthorised activity involving nuclear and other radioactive material reported last year, according to the…

Children already dying in Sudan’s stricken Zamzam camp: WFP

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Children already dying in Sudan’s stricken Zamzam camp: WFP 28 February 2025 WFP/Mohamed Galal Food aid is delivered to displaced people in Zamzam camp in North Darfur. UN humanitarians on Friday warned again that thousands of families could starve in the coming weeks inside the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur…

Global biodiversity agreement mobilises $200 billion boost for nature

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Global biodiversity agreement mobilises $200 billion boost for nature 28 February 2025 © WWF-International/Suyash_Kesh A tiger at Bandhavgarh National Park, India. Governments on Friday reached agreement on a strategy to raise an additional $200 billion each year to better protect the world’s flora and fauna by 2030…

‘A litany of human suffering’ in Myanmar, warns UN rights chief

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘A litany of human suffering’ in Myanmar, warns UN rights chief 28 February 2025 © UNICEF/Minzayar Oo Rains lash an internally displaced persons camp in northern Myanmar. (file) Myanmar is mired in one of the world’s worst human rights crises, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday, describing conditions there as “a litany of human suffering…