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OHCHR Press Conference

1 year 4 months ago Breadcrumb Home OHCHR Press Conference 06 December 2023 Press Conference Announcement HC Volker Türk press conference Volker Türk, High Commissioner for Human Rights

PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE

1 year 4 months ago Breadcrumb Home PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE 05 December 2023 UN Geneva Press Briefing Rolando Gómez, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the General Fisheries Commission for the…

COP28: To save the planet, we need a just and fair renewable energy revolution

1 year 4 months ago Breadcrumb Home COP28: To save the planet, we need a just and fair renewable energy revolution 05 December 2023 COP28/Mahmoud Khaled Women from the Brazilian delegation attend an indigenous event during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The key to ensuring that communities – especially the most vulnerable – can leave fossil-fuel based economies behind, is to…

UN cites ‘alarming surge’ in climate change over the past decade as COP28 pushes for global emissions cuts

1 year 4 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN cites ‘alarming surge’ in climate change over the past decade as COP28 pushes for global emissions cuts 05 December 2023 UN Photo/Mark Garten Secretary-General Visits Antarctica The past decade has been confirmed the warmest ever recorded, continuing an alarming 30-year trend that the UN weather chief said on Tuesday is “unequivocally driven by greenhouse gas emissions from human…

COP28: Over 60 countries pledge to slash cooling emissions amid rising temperatures

1 year 4 months ago Breadcrumb Home COP28: Over 60 countries pledge to slash cooling emissions amid rising temperatures 05 December 2023 © Unsplash/Sergei A Cooling systems are a major contributor to climate change. With rising temperatures leading to demand for more air conditioners and other cooling equipment, a new UN report launched Tuesday at COP28 climate talks in Dubai lays out a pathway to cut emissions across the…

Desperation intensifies in Gaza amid uncertainty of ‘safe zones’

1 year 4 months ago Breadcrumb Home Desperation intensifies in Gaza amid uncertainty of ‘safe zones’ 05 December 2023 © WHO An injured Palestinian child is rushed to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. (file) The situation for Gazans is “getting worse by the hour”, the UN health agency WHO said on Tuesday, after some of the heaviest Israeli shelling in the enclave since Hamas militants massacred some 1,200 people in southern Israel and…

Renewable energy boosts safety of UN peacekeepers

1 year 4 months ago Breadcrumb Home Renewable energy boosts safety of UN peacekeepers 05 December 2023 UN Photo/Martine Perret Peacekeepers serving with the Indian military contingent of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) during a “stand to” drill in Pibor, Jonglei State. The transition to renewable energy at UN peacekeeping missions helps to ensure the safety and security of uniformed personnel serving in the field, a…

World News in Brief: WFP ‘pauses’ north Yemen food aid, human rights and sport, Myanmar latest

1 year 4 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: WFP ‘pauses’ north Yemen food aid, human rights and sport, Myanmar latest 05 December 2023 © WFP/Jihad Al-Nahari Beneficiaries line up at a WFP food distribution point in Yemen in November 2023. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday that it was compelled to pause the distribution of food aid to needy families in northern areas of Yemen under the control…

African women on the frontline of peacekeeping

1 year 4 months ago Breadcrumb Home African women on the frontline of peacekeeping 05 December 2023 UN Photo/Hervé Serefio Zambian women peacekeepers patrol in northeastern Central African Republic (file) For over a year, a group of United Nations peacekeepers from Ghana led by Captain Esinam Baah regularly patrolled the “blue line” or the demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel, and visited neighbourhoods…

UNICEF: 1 in 5 children in world’s richest countries living in poverty

1 year 4 months ago Breadcrumb Home UNICEF: 1 in 5 children in world’s richest countries living in poverty 05 December 2023 © UNICEF/Ashley Gilbertson Some of the world’s richest countries are experiencing sharp rises in child poverty. A sharp rise in child poverty was registered across 40 of the world’s richest countries between 2014 and 2021, according to a new report published on Wednesday by the UN Children's Fund's…