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Yemen: Transfer of oil from decaying ship expected to start next week
10 July 2023
Holm Akhdar
FSO Safer was abandoned off Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hudaydah after the civil war broke out in the country.
Transfer of crude oil from the dilapidated tanker Safer stranded off the coast of Yemen, is expected to start early next week, a senior United Nations humanitarian official told the Security…
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INTERVIEW: Supporting comprehensive sexuality education in Thailand
10 July 2023
UN News/Daniel Dickinson
Classmates draw around the body of a student at a school in northern Thailand.
Young adolescents in the north of Thailand have been learning about the value of family planning and other sexual and reproductive health issues, thanks to the work of a non-governmental organization (NGO)…
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Top UN forum meets to ‘build political momentum’ for SDGs
10 July 2023
UN Photo/Manuel Elías
The high-level political forum on sustainable development convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) began its work with a plenary meeting in the General Assembly hall.
Government, civil society and private sector partners convened in New York on Monday by the Economic…
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Halfway there: 5 ways the UN is turbocharging the race to the SDGs
10 July 2023
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Zara Bulama carries one of the goats she received from FAO in Gongulong, Maiduguri, Nigeria, in June 2021.
At the halfway point towards realizing the ambitious 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Member States, innovators, and influencers will gather at UN Headquarters on Monday when…
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One year of the Black Sea Initiative: Key facts and figures
10 July 2023
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WFP vessel RC Vanessa waiting for Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) inspection in the Marmara Sea (this vessel carried wheat from Ukraine to Afghanistan).
For almost a year, the UN-brokered Black Sea Initiative agreed by Russia, Türkiye, and Ukraine has allowed millions of tonnes of grain and other…
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Temperatures off the charts, but more records imminent: WMO
10 July 2023
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Global sea surface temperatures were at a record high in May and June 2023.
Global sea surface temperatures reached a record high in May, June, and July – and the warming El Niño weather pattern is only just getting started – experts at the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on…
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WMO hybrid press conference
10 July 2023
Press Conference Announcement
Record global temperatures on land and sea surface
Omar Baddour, Chief of Climate Monitoring at WMO
Michael Sparrow, Chief of World Climate Research Programme
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Committee against Torture Opens Seventy-Seventh Session in Geneva
10 July 2023
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The Committee against Torture this morning opened its seventy-seventh session, being held in Geneva from 10 to 28 July, during which it will review efforts by Switzerland, New Zealand, Romania and Spain to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture and…
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UN chief condemns airstrike that killed at least 22 people in Sudan
09 July 2023
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the media at UN Headquarters in New York (file photo). He said on Wednesday it was everyone's
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned the airstrike in the Sudanese city of Omdurman on Saturday which reportedly killed at…
