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Deadly and growing impact of air pollution laid bare in new UNICEF-backed report
18 June 2024
The State of Global Air (SoGA) report published in partnership with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warns on Wednesday that air pollution is increasingly impacting human health - and is now the second leading global risk factor for premature death.
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Systematic terror, brutal atrocities rife in Myanmar: UN human rights chief
18 June 2024
The UN’s top human rights official said on Tuesday that Myanmar is in “agonizing pain”, suffocated by an illegitimate military regime which uses “horrific war tactics” and commits brutal atrocity crimes.
Addressing the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner…
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Attacks against civilians in Ukraine ‘unconscionable’, Security Council hears
18 June 2024
The UN’s top political affairs official on Tuesday reiterated that attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure are prohibited by international law. More than 170 civilians lost their lives and a further 690 were injured in continued Russian strikes across Ukraine last month.
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WFP increases response in West and Central Africa to address rising hunger
18 June 2024
The World Food Programme (WFP) will increase its food and nutrition assistance programme this month in West and Central Africa in hopes of reaching 7.3 million people as the June-August lean season is under way at a time when hunger levels are high and food resources are low.
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World News in Brief: Weapons sales threat, More aid for Haiti, global refugee and migrant survey
18 June 2024
A conference focused on small arms and light weapons is taking place at a “difficult and dangerous moment for humanity,” according to the UN Chief António Guterres.
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Gaza: UN rights chief slams ‘unconscionable death and suffering’
18 June 2024
As the war drags on in Gaza, UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Tuesday condemned Israel’s “relentless” attacks across the war-shattered enclave, while repeating longstanding calls for the release of all remaining hostages.
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OPENING - High Commissioner for Human Rights Highlights the Cruelty of War and the Urgent Need to Find the Way Back to Peace as he Presents his Global Update at the Opening of the Fifty-Sixth Regular Session of the Human Rights Council
18 June 2024
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The Human Rights Council this morning opened its fifty-sixth regular session, which will be held from 18 June to 12 July, hearing Volker Türk, United Nations…
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INTERVIEW: Sustainable energy offers ‘hope’ in fight against desertification and land loss
17 June 2024
Sustainable sources of energy, including solar and wind power, can help communities across the world to reverse desertification and land loss, according to Ibrahim Thiaw, the Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.
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Stop ‘vandalising’ Earth and help the planet thrive, UN chief urges
16 June 2024
As nearly 40 per cent of land across the planet is degraded with more acres lost every second, governments, businesses and communities must galvanize action to reverse the damage and protect Earth, the UN chief said in a strong message for the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, marked annually on 17 June…
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Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families Concludes Thirty-Eighth Session after Adopting Findings on Türkiye, Senegal and Congo
14 June 2024
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The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families this afternoon concluded its thirty-eighth session after adopting concluding observations on the reports of Türkiye…
