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Trafficking in the Sahel: Gas lighting

1 year 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home Trafficking in the Sahel: Gas lighting 03 June 2023 UNODC Graffiti showing a fuel transporter in Porto Novo, Benin. Kourou/Koualou, a tiny village in a neutral zone straddling Benin and Burkina Faso, was the centre of a one-million-litre-a-year cross-border illicit fuel trade, a snapshot of a phenomenon that spreads far across the 6,000-kilometre-wide African Sahel region…

Huge increase in transnational crime and synthetic drugs in SE Asia requires cross-border cooperation

1 year 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home Huge increase in transnational crime and synthetic drugs in SE Asia requires cross-border cooperation 02 June 2023 UN News/Daniel Dickinson The Thai Navy Mekong Riverine Unit patrols the border between Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos. The trafficking in illegal narcotics, precursor chemicals, timber and wildlife, people and illicit goods across Southeast Asia is being tackled thanks to the…

US state abortion bans ‘putting millions of women and girls at risk’

1 year 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home US state abortion bans ‘putting millions of women and girls at risk’ 02 June 2023 © Unsplash/Gayatri Malhotra Abortion rights supporters march in Washingon, D.C. in October 2021. Millions of women and girls across the United States have suffered an alarming deterioration in access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, following the US Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional…

Time running out to save Myanmar’s Rakhine from hunger and disease post-Cyclone Mocha

1 year 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home Time running out to save Myanmar’s Rakhine from hunger and disease post-Cyclone Mocha 02 June 2023 © UNOCHA/Pierre Lorioux A shelter is left in pieces by Cyclone Mocha in Nget Chaung 2 IDP camp in Rakhine state in Myanmar. More than two weeks after deadly Cyclone Mocha hit Myanmar, aid access is uncertain, disease is spreading, and a major food crisis remains a very real threat, the UN said…

Regulation essential to curb AI for surveillance, disinformation: rights experts

1 year 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home Regulation essential to curb AI for surveillance, disinformation: rights experts 02 June 2023 Unsplash/Chris Yang People globally are at risk of immense harm due to misinformation and disinformation. Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered spyware and disinformation is on the rise, and regulation of the space has become urgent, according to UN-appointed independent rights experts…

UN agency for Palestine refugees on verge of financial collapse

1 year 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN agency for Palestine refugees on verge of financial collapse 02 June 2023 © WFP/Ali Jadallah A Palestinian family in Gaza share a meal bought with a WFP food voucher. The United Nations on Friday appealed for sustainable funding for its agency that supports Palestine refugees, UNRWA, which is on the brink of financial collapse.…

Sudan: Crisis fuels ‘desperate’ situation for civilians, as Security Council demands unhindered humanitarian access

1 year 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan: Crisis fuels ‘desperate’ situation for civilians, as Security Council demands unhindered humanitarian access 02 June 2023 © WFP/Mohamed Elamin Grain is provided to people in Port Sudan who have fled conflict in Khartoum. As the crisis in Sudan enters its second month, UN agencies and partners warned on Friday that the conflict between rival military groups since mid-April is fuelling…

Korean Peninsula: Security Council must find unity to calm rising tensions

1 year 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home Korean Peninsula: Security Council must find unity to calm rising tensions 02 June 2023 © Unsplash/Micha Brändli Military officers celebrate at a parade in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. (file) The “lack of unity and action” in the Security Council “does little to slow the negative trajectory on the Korean Peninsula”, Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and…

Ukraine: Over 1,500 children killed or injured, concern rises over forced transfers

1 year 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home Ukraine: Over 1,500 children killed or injured, concern rises over forced transfers 01 June 2023 © UNICEF/Andriy Boiko A young boy walks through the streets of Kherson in Ukraine. With Ukraine’s Children’s Day celebrations on Thursday marred by the death of a girl alongside other civilians in a Russian missile attack in the capital Kyiv, the UN’s top humanitarian official in the country,…

UNAIDS celebrates Pride Month, demands decriminalization worldwide

1 year 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home UNAIDS celebrates Pride Month, demands decriminalization worldwide 01 June 2023 UN News/Elizabeth Scaffidi Rainbow flags flying proudly in Christopher Park, New York City, during LGBT Pride Month, June. As the world comes together to celebrate the beginning of Pride Month on Thursday, the UN agency dedicated to ending the AIDS epidemic, UNAIDS, issued a declaration of solidarity with lesbian…