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COP28: To save the planet, we need a just and fair renewable energy revolution
05 December 2023
The key to ensuring that communities – especially the most vulnerable – can leave fossil-fuel based economies behind, is to create space for a just transition to a green economy, clean energy advocates and representatives of indigenous groups argued on Tuesday at COP28.
As the two…
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UN cites ‘alarming surge’ in climate change over the past decade as COP28 pushes for global emissions cuts
05 December 2023
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 activities.”
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COP28: Over 60 countries pledge to slash cooling emissions amid rising temperatures
05 December 2023
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 cooling sector worldwide.
Over 60 countries signed up to a…
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Desperation intensifies in Gaza amid uncertainty of ‘safe zones’
05 December 2023
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 took around 240 hostages on 7 October.
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Renewable energy boosts safety of UN peacekeepers
05 December 2023
The transition to renewable energy at UN peacekeeping missions helps to ensure the safety and security of uniformed personnel serving in the field, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Under-Secretary-General Atul Khare was speaking at the 2023 UN Peacekeeping Ministerial conference, which opened in Accra…
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World News in Brief: WFP ‘pauses’ north Yemen food aid, human rights and sport, Myanmar latest
05 December 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 of authorities in and around the capital, Sana’a.
The region has been under the control…
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African women on the frontline of peacekeeping
05 December 2023
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 in the area, checking in with local families and making sure they were safe.
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UNICEF: 1 in 5 children in world’s richest countries living in poverty
05 December 2023
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 global research centre, Innocenti.
The new findings from the UNICEF research wing focus on…
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NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS ON COVERAGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS 75 HIGH-LEVEL EVENT
05 December 2023
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Geneva, Switzerland, 11-12 December 2023
The UN Human Rights Office is organising a High-Level Event on 11 and 12 December to mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The HR75 event will take place at the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), located at the Palais des Nations in Rooms…
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Committee on the Rights of Migrant Workers and Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Discuss Draft Joint General Comment on Xenophobia and the Rights of Migrants
04 December 2023
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon held a side event…
