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UN chief appeals for Sudan ceasefire, now: ‘Values of Ramadan must prevail’
07 March 2024
The UN Secretary-General on Thursday called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan and unhindered humanitarian access as the country teeters on the brink of further disintegration.
The war between rival militaries Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), now in its…
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In Dialogue with Chile, Experts of the Human Rights Committee Commend Measures to Promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Rights, Raise Issues Concerning the Police’s Response to Social Unrest in 2019 and 2020, and Conscientious Objection to Performing Abortions
06 March 2024
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The Human Rights Committee today concluded its consideration of the seventh periodic report of Chile on how it implements the provisions of the International Covenant…
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Path to low-carbon construction is clear as mud
06 March 2024
The use of building materials such as cement and steel create a massive carbon footprint, and the industry overall is responsible for almost 40 per cent of global CO2 emissions, mainly in terms of production and transport. Now, two women architects in India think they might have a new, perhaps counter-intuitive solution to sustainable construction: building with mud…
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Allow more aid into Gaza now, pleads UN health agency chief
06 March 2024
Much more lifesaving humanitarian aid must be allowed into Gaza where one in six children is dangerously malnourished in the north of the war-torn enclave, UN health agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.
These are “children who survived bombardment, but may…
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11 months into Sudan war, ‘world’s worst hunger crisis’ looms
06 March 2024
Nearly 11 months since rival generals declared war in Sudan, UN humanitarians warned on Wednesday that the conflict risks triggering “the world’s worst hunger crisis”.
The northeast African country is already in the grip of the world's largest displacement crisis, the UN World Food Programme, WFP,…
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Earth’s ‘life support system’ is being destroyed by global business paradigm, UN expert warns
06 March 2024
The UN independent expert on human rights and the environment on Wednesday called for an urgent and radical shift in how business and the global economy operates to prevent irreversible damage to Earth’s life support system and safeguard human rights.
In a hard-hitting…
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Haiti: UN officials say ‘we are running out of time’ amid escalating crises
06 March 2024
Amid a mass prison breakout, expanding gang violence and rising hunger, the UN human rights chief on Wednesday urged the international community to act “swiftly and decisively to prevent the Caribbean country’s further descent into chaos”.
Ahead of an expected closed-door Security…
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Gaza: ‘Children are dying from hunger’, says UN aid coordinator
06 March 2024
“Hunger has reached catastrophic levels,” Jamie McGoldrick, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, told journalists at UN Headquarters on Wednesday, describing a two-day visit to war-ravaged Gaza.
“Children are dying from hunger,” he said via videolink, as media…
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World News in Brief, deadliest year for migrants, Syria refugee support crisis, Shamima Begum appeal
06 March 2024
The UN migration agency (IOM) announced on Wednesday that last year was the deadliest on record for migrants worldwide.
Nearly 8,600 people on the move died in 2023, a 20 per cent increase from 2022, according to the UN agency’s Missing Migrants…
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UN envoy calls again for removal of restrictions on Afghan women
06 March 2024
The UN envoy for Afghanistan on Wednesday repeated her call for the Taliban to reverse its numerous restrictions on the lives of women and girls in violation of their human rights, warning that the longer they remain in place, the more damage will be done.
Briefing ambassadors in the Security…
