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Disability rights threatened by bad working conditions for carers: independent expert

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home Disability rights threatened by bad working conditions for carers: independent expert 14 August 2023 © Unsplash/Zhuo Cheng You El trabajo de cuidados no remunerado recae sobre las mujeres. Discussions about the “future of care in the 21st century” must prioritize working conditions and career opportunities – or else disability rights will be in jeopardy, a UN-appointed independent rights…

UN agencies continue to deliver aid in Niger

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN agencies continue to deliver aid in Niger 14 August 2023 © FAO/Luis Tato Women in Niger are practicing the sustainable harvesting of forest resources. (file) The United Nations continues to deliver aid in Niger, nearly three weeks since President Mohamed Bazoum was seized by some of his guards in a power grab…

Top UN aid official in Ukraine condemns latest wave of indiscriminate attacks

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home Top UN aid official in Ukraine condemns latest wave of indiscriminate attacks 14 August 2023 © UNOCHA/Saviano Abreu The port city of Mykolaiv, in the south of Ukraine, is being targeted with renewed shelling. An escalation of Russian attacks against civilians in Ukraine has brought more death and injuries to southern regions while hampering aid operations, the UN’s top humanitarian official…

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Opens Twenty-Ninth Session

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Opens Twenty-Ninth Session 14 August 2023 Meeting Summaries The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today opened its twenty-ninth session in Geneva, during which it would review the reports of Andorra, Austria, Germany, Israel, Malawi, Mauritania, Mongolia and Paraguay.   At the beginning of the session, Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame, Committee…

From ashes to riches: Profiting from peatland in Indonesia

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home From ashes to riches: Profiting from peatland in Indonesia 13 August 2023 UN Indonesia/Kiky Wuysang A farmer tends her crops on a peatland area in coastal West Kalimantan. Farmers in the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan on the island of Borneo are adapting their agricultural techniques with a more climate-friendly approach by ending the burning of land thanks to an initiative by…

As record warming tests climate goals, young people’s ‘green skills’ may help save the planet

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home As record warming tests climate goals, young people’s ‘green skills’ may help save the planet 12 August 2023 Laura Quinones Activists stage massive protest at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh demanding leaders to address vital issues realted to agriculture, adaptation and climate resilience. Young climate advocates will tell leaders at a UN summit next month that they are out of options: government…

PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE 11 August 2023 UN Geneva Press Briefing Daniel Johnson, Officer-in-Charge of the Radio, Television and Webcast Section at the United Nations Information Service, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food Programme, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and the World Health Organization…

Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Commend Uruguay on High-Quality Delegation, Ask about the Situation of People of African Descent and Measures To Prevent Overcrowding in Prisons

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Commend Uruguay on High-Quality Delegation, Ask about the Situation of People of African Descent and Measures To Prevent Overcrowding in Prisons 11 August 2023 Meeting Summaries   The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined…

International Youth Day: Battling the stigmatization of teen pregnancy in Thailand

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home International Youth Day: Battling the stigmatization of teen pregnancy in Thailand 11 August 2023 UN News/Daniel Dickinson Aorn receives a massage at the Khon Wai Sai centre in northern Thailand. Young mothers in Thailand are receiving support to overcome the challenges they face in a country where teenage pregnancy is still taboo.…

Sudan: ‘Grim prediction’ now ‘harsh reality’ as hunger engulfs over 20 million

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan: ‘Grim prediction’ now ‘harsh reality’ as hunger engulfs over 20 million 11 August 2023 © WFP/Eloge Mbaihondoum A Sudanese family take shelter at a refugee entry point close to the Chadian border with Sudan. Dire predictions about escalating hunger in Sudan have tragically come true, as conflict-induced food scarcity has plunged 20.3 million people into severe acute hunger, the UN…