UN News

• UN refugee chief laments nearly 80 million people forcibly displaced

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  Global displacement reached a staggering 79.5 million people last year - almost double the number of people in crisis registered a decade ago –...

• Turkish diplomat elected President of historic 75th UN General Assembly

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  Volkan Bozkir of Turkey was elected President of the forthcoming session of the UN General Assembly in a vote held on Wednesday that was emblematic...

• ‘I am my brother’s keeper’, Philonise Floyd tells UN rights body, in impassioned plea for racial justice

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  The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday heard powerful testimony from the brother of George Floyd, whose death captured on video while a...

• ‘New contract’ needed with nature to keep drought and deserts at bay

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  The UN Secretary-General has called for “a new contract for nature” to address ongoing global challenges connected to land degradation, such as...

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• Rights experts call for global opposition to Israel’s annexation plans

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  Nearly 50 independent human rights experts are calling for the international community to oppose Israel’s plan to annex significant parts of the...

• Security Council: Time is on no-one’s side in Syria, warns top UN envoy

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  With war-weary Syria in economic freefall and protesters back on the streets, all sides – domestic and international – must find a way forward that...

• FROM THE FIELD: COVID-19 just the latest crisis facing Somalia

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  Devastating floods, desert locusts and the COVID-19 pandemic constitute a ‘triple threat’, that risks reversing political and security gains made...

• Conviction of Filipino journalist ‘a new low’, says independent UN expert

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  The conviction of prominent Filipino journalist Maria Ressa has been described by an independent UN expert as “a new low in the Philippines’...

• Syrian refugees resort to ever more desperate measures to resist pandemic impact

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  The COVID-19 crisis has caused a dramatic spike in the number of Syrian refugees in need of emergency assistance in the last three months, UN...

• COVID-19: Preparations for southern flu season must be a priority: WHO’s Tedros

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  Despite the ongoing global response to COVID-19, the world cannot lose sight of the significant public health risk posed by influenza, which...

• Iraq: UN probe into ISIL atrocities making ‘real progress’, Security Council hears

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  The special UN Investigative Team probing ISIL atrocities in Iraq is making “real progress,” its chief said on Monday, as it begins to pinpoint the...

• Children caught in conflict facing ‘brutality and fear while the world watches’

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  Boys and girls used and abused in armed conflict have had their childhoods replaced by “pain, brutality and fear while the world watches”, the UN...

• Human Rights Council picks up again after COVID suspension, to hold racism debate

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  After a three month long COVID-19-enforced break, the Human Rights Council resumed on Monday, giving the green light to a rare Urgent Debate on...

• Citing ‘weight of history’, senior UN officials of African descent issue call to ‘go beyond and do more’ to end racism

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  A group of more than twenty senior leaders in the UN, who report directly to Secretary-General António Guterres, and who are African or of African...

• UN chief in ‘support migrants’ plea, as remittances drop by 20 per cent predicted

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  Marking International Day of Family Remittances, The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has released a message appealing for “people...