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From Himalayan melt to drowning shores, children lead the climate fight
- UN News
From the high Himalayas down to sea level, climate change is no longer a distant threat for children in Nepal and the Maldives – it is a daily struggle: landslides tear through mountain villages washing away homes and farms, while rising seas surge over island shorelines, threatening to swallow entire communities.
Guterres to launch life-saving campaign strengthening mine action worldwide
- UN News
The UN Secretary-General is set to launch a global campaign to boost support for disarmament and mine action.
UNHCR forced to make deep cuts, despite rising needs worldwide
- UN News
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) announced on Monday that it is cutting global staffing costs by around 30 per cent, following a comprehensive review of its activities, spending, staffing and structure, prompted by major funding shortfalls.
Without urgent funding, global hunger hotspots are set to grow, UN warns
- UN News
Since conflict erupted in Sudan, more than a million people have fled to neighbouring South Sudan, seeking refuge from escalating violence that has displaced 12.4 million people and plunged over half the Sudanese population into food insecurity.
‘Behind each crisis, people are suffering,’ Türk tells Human Rights Council
- UN News
Eighty years after the United Nations was established to end war, uphold fundamental human rights and promote justice and international law, those founding principles are increasingly under threat, the UN’s human rights chief warned on Monday.
Brutal cuts mean brutal choices warns UN relief chief, launching ‘survival appeal’
- UN News
Facing the most severe funding shortfall in the history of humanitarian aid, UN relief chief Tom Fletcher on Monday announced a “hyper-prioritised” appeal for $29 billion to meet urgent global needs.
MIDDLE EAST CRISIS: Live updates for 16 June
- UN News
After a weekend of massive strikes and counter-strikes between Tel Aviv and Tehran, the UN's human rights chief, Volker Türk on Monday condemned the violence and echoed wider calls for a negotiated end to the attacks. Meanwhile in Gaza, aid workers report that mobile communications networks continue to be cut in the shattered enclave. We'll be covering these developments and more across the UN system and beyond today, thanks for joining us. UN News app users can follow our live coverage here.
Broadcasting Hope: Women’s Voice Radio Helps Afghan Teen Reclaim Her Future
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Jun 13 (IPS) - Mehrangiz is a sixteen-year-old girl from Badakhshan, a province in the northeastern Afghanistan famed for its rubies, jewels, and a land of love and beauty.
Make use of all urban waste, a utopia in Brazil?
- Inter Press Service
TIMBO / FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil, Jun 13 (IPS) - In 2014, Santa Catarina became the first and only state free of open-air garbage dumps in Brazil. Now, 14 of its municipalities are seeking to also free themselves from landfills and make use of nearly all urban solid waste.
France Rallies World Leaders to Seal Ocean Protection Deal at UN Conference in Nice
- Inter Press Service
NICE, France, Jun 13 (IPS) - With the future of the world’s oceans hanging in the balance, global leaders, scientists, and activists gathered in the French Riviera city of Nice this week for the historic UN Ocean Conference, where France declared a new era of high seas governance and marine protection.
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