News headlines in August 2021, page 3

  1. UN health agency secures life-saving medical supplies to Afghanistan

    - UN News

    Lifesaving medical supplies reached Afghanistan by air on Monday, the first UN shipment to arrive since the Taliban takeover more than a week ago, as UN human rights experts called on the country's new rulers to live up to their promise to fully protect the rights of women and girls in the country.

  2. After Afghanistan, War’s Idealists Must Accept Defeat

    - Inter Press Service

    ROME, Aug 30 (IPS) - As the Western occupation of Afghanistan has come to an end, TV news is broadcasting harrowing scenes of death and destruction, citizens in fear, allies abandoned, and dreams dashed.

  3. Ensuring the right to a nationality, more pressing than ever: UNHCR

    - UN News

    Ensuring the right to a nationality and eradicating statelessness is more pressing than ever, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Monday, as it marked the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

  4. COVID jabs needed for educators and kids to keep schools open: WHO, UNICEF

    - UN News

    As the school year begins for millions of children in Europe and Central Asia, UN health and child experts on Monday issued a series of COVID-19 risk reduction measures to ensure that in-person lessons can go ahead, despite rising infection rates.

  5. On International Day, UN chief calls for action to end enforced disappearances

    - UN News

    UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged countries to fulfil their obligations to prevent and prosecute cases of enforced disappearance, a “cowardly practice” which the COVID-19 pandemic has made even more difficult to combat.

  6. Cook Islands Entrepreneur Develops Hydroponics Greenhouse to Boost Local Food Production

    - Inter Press Service

    CANBERRA, Australia, Aug 29 (IPS) - Finding ways to be smarter producers of food was a priority in small island developing states (SIDS) before the outbreak of Covid-19. Now the ideas of farmers and entrepreneurs, such as Piri Maao in the Cook Islands, are being avidly sought by governments and development bodies, which are keen to drive resilience and recovery as the pandemic moves into its second year.

  7. Afghan children ‘at greater risk than ever’, top UNICEF official warns

    - UN News

    With the needs of Afghan children greater than ever before, the world “cannot abandon them now”, a senior official with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Sunday after concluding a visit to the country.

  8. The ‘energy patriots’ bringing electricity to Indonesia’s remote villages

    - UN News

    For millions of villagers in Indonesia’s remote areas, a 12-hour-per-day erratic electricity supply is the norm. With students studying by candlelight at night and health centres not running at full capacity, these communities face an uphill struggle to improve their well-being. 

  9. Reaffirm commitment to ban nuclear tests, UN chief says in message for International Day

    - UN News

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    Countries which have not yet ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) are urged by UN Secretary-General António Guterres to do so without delay.

  10. Tokyo Paralympics: leaping towards a more inclusive society

    - UN News

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    Innovators are joining Paralympians to discuss how sport can help to build a more inclusive society in a series of online discussions organized by the UN to coincide with the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, which continues until 5 September.

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