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Gaza: Guterres invokes 'most powerful tool' Article 99, in bid for humanitarian ceasefire

1 year 4 months ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Guterres invokes 'most powerful tool' Article 99, in bid for humanitarian ceasefire 06 December 2023 © UNRWA/Ashraf Amra People search for their belongings in the rubble in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza. Invoking a rarely used article of the UN Charter, Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday called on the Security Council to “press to avert a humanitarian…

New York City youth give a shout out to human rights worldwide

1 year 4 months ago Breadcrumb Home New York City youth give a shout out to human rights worldwide 06 December 2023 UN News/Paulina Kubiak Greer At UN headquarters, students participate in the People’s Theatre Project focused on human rights issues. Hundreds of teenagers from New York schools on Wednesday descended on UN Headquarters to discuss mental health, education, homelessness and systematic racism, as part of the build…

Guterres urges greater support for UN emergency relief fund

1 year 4 months ago Breadcrumb Home Guterres urges greater support for UN emergency relief fund 06 December 2023 © UNICEF/Joe English Hygiene kits are distributed to displaced people at a camp in Syria. Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday highlighted the importance of the UN’s core humanitarian response fund to deploy quick and strategic resources to global crises globally…

World News in Brief: Nigeria airstrikes condemned, supporting Venezuelan migrants and refugees, weapons in Myanmar

1 year 4 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Nigeria airstrikes condemned, supporting Venezuelan migrants and refugees, weapons in Myanmar 06 December 2023 © WFP/Adetona Omokanye A food market in northern Nigeria. Authorities in Nigeria must investigate a string of deadly airstrikes over the past six years and hold those responsible to account, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Wednesday.…

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…