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Climate Litigation Report reveals spike in cases demanding action

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home Climate Litigation Report reveals spike in cases demanding action 27 July 2023 © UNICEF/Mark Naftalin A girl looks out over submerged houses in Jonglei State in South Sudan. Flooding has devastated much of the area and it is estimated that more than 800,000 people in the country have been affected. The total number of court cases focused on climate action has more than doubled since 2017 and…

Türk calls on Israeli Government to ‘heed the calls of the people’ over judicial reform

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home Türk calls on Israeli Government to ‘heed the calls of the people’ over judicial reform 27 July 2023 © Unsplash/Rafael Nir Israel's parliament, the Knesset, in Jerusalem. The UN human rights chief issued a statement on Thursday calling on “those in power” in Israel to heed the calls of the broad-based coalition in the country which has been protesting new laws limiting the judicial…

First Person: ‘Shocked’ into hepatitis C treatment in South Africa

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home First Person: ‘Shocked’ into hepatitis C treatment in South Africa 27 July 2023 © UNODC Koketso Mukubani satnds outside the Sediba Hope Medical Centre in Tshwane, South Africa. A South African man who started smoking cannabis when he was 14 years old has been talking about how contracting the hepatitis C virus after graduating to heroin “shocked” him into seeking treatment.…

Human Rights Committee Concludes One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth Session after Adopting Concluding Observations on Reports of Brazil, Burundi, Colombia, Cyprus, Lesotho, State of Palestine and Uganda

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home Human Rights Committee Concludes One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth Session after Adopting Concluding Observations on Reports of Brazil, Burundi, Colombia, Cyprus, Lesotho, State of Palestine and Uganda 26 July 2023 Press Release The Human Rights Committee today concluded its one hundred and thirty-eighth session after adopting concluding observations on the reports of Brazil, Burundi, Colombia, Cyprus, Lesotho, State of Palestine and Uganda. Tania María Abdo Rocholl,…

Over 350,000 children in developing world missing out on cancer treatment

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home Over 350,000 children in developing world missing out on cancer treatment 26 July 2023 WHO/Ernest Ankomah A two-year-old girl and her mother wait to see a doctor at the paediatric oncology unit at a hospital in Accra, Ghana. Treatment remains out of reach for hundreds of thousands of children diagnosed with cancer in low and middle-income countries, severely limiting their chances of…

Guterres condemns apparent coup attempt in Niger

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home Guterres condemns apparent coup attempt in Niger 26 July 2023 UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe UN Secretary-General António Guterres (left) is received by the Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum, in the capital of Niger, Niamey. The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned an attempted power grab in the West African nation of Niger, following reports that the democratically…

The UN’s milestone operation to salvage Yemen’s stricken oil tanker: Key questions answered

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home The UN’s milestone operation to salvage Yemen’s stricken oil tanker: Key questions answered 26 July 2023 © UNDP Marine inspectors monitor the stricken Safer oil tanker. After nearly two years of “political groundwork, fundraising, and project development”, in the words of UN chief António Guterres, the UN-led operation to avert environmental disaster in the Red Sea of the Yemeni coast, is…

Cambodia: UN rights chief regrets ‘severely restricted’ poll and opposition clampdown

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home Cambodia: UN rights chief regrets ‘severely restricted’ poll and opposition clampdown 26 July 2023 © Unsplash/Paul Szewczyk Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. The UN human rights chief on Wednesday lamented the severe electoral clampdown by the Cambodian Government during the weekend vote, including restrictions on opposition parties, NGOs and media…

UNESCO education report advises ban on smartphones in schools

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home UNESCO education report advises ban on smartphones in schools 26 July 2023 © UNICEF/Joshua Estey Students in Cebu, Philippines take a selfie at school. A new UN report raised concerns on Wednesday about the excessive use of smartphones, calling for them to be banned in schools worldwide. According to the UN's education, science and culture agency UNESCO, the over-use of mobile phones impacts…

Heatwave threat impacts half of all children in Europe and Central Asia

1 year 9 months ago Breadcrumb Home Heatwave threat impacts half of all children in Europe and Central Asia 26 July 2023 © Unsplash/Andrew Seaman 在热浪中保持凉爽对儿童尤为重要，因为他们比成年人更难调节体温。 Half of all children in Europe and Central Asia, 92 million, are exposed to high heatwave frequency, or double the global average, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday in a new policy brief.…