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Aid effort underway after Afghanistan quake ‘wipes out’ villages
- UN News
After a magnitude six earthquake struck remote areas of eastern Afghanistan overnight reportedly killing at least 800 people and wiping out villages, UN chief António Guterres on Monday pledged to “spare no effort” in helping those affected.
Youth Lead Global Call to Support Hibakusha on UN Day Against Nuclear Test
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, September 1 (IPS) - Marking the United Nations’ International Day Against Nuclear Tests, young activists and experts gathered at the UN University in Tokyo for an event titled “The Role of Youth in Supporting Global Hibakusha.” The forum underscored how youth solidarity can amplify the voices of survivors of nuclear testing and bombings, known collectively as the “Global Hibakusha” — communities scarred by the use, production, and testing of nuclear weapons, from Hiroshima to the Marshall Islands — and strengthen global momentum toward nuclear abolition.
African Debt & Climate Change: How the ICJ’s Vanuatu Ruling Could be Used for Broader Justice
- Inter Press Service
PRETORIA, South Africa, September 1 (IPS) - African sovereign debtors in distress face terrible choices. They are often forced to choose between fully paying their creditors and financing the needs of their populations – health, education, renewable energy, water.
‘Who Will Take the Mic at the United Nations When Doing so Might Cost Them Their Freedom?’
- Inter Press Service
CIVICUS discusses civil society’s challenges in engaging with United Nations (UN) processes with an activist from a Salvadoran queer-led organisation who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons.
UN General Assembly Urged to Temporarily Move to Geneva to Circumvent US Visa Denials
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, September 1 (IPS) - When Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was denied a US visa to visit New York to address the United Nations back in 1988– under the Ronald Reagan administration– the General Assembly defied the United States by temporarily moving the UN’s highest policy making body to Geneva– for the first time in UN history– providing a less-hostile political environment for the PLO leader.
UN chief calls for justice and ‘real change’ for people of African descent
- UN News
On the International Day for People of African Descent, celebrated each year on 31 August, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for justice, dignity and equality for people of African descent around the world.
E3, US Need a More Effective Diplomatic Strategy for Iran Post-Snapback
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, August 29 (IPS) - The decision early this week by the E3 (France, Germany, and the United Kingdom) to initiate the process to snap back UN sanctions on Iran that were modified as part of the 2015 nuclear deal must be paired with an effective diplomatic strategy that restarts talks between the United States and Iran.
UN Reforms Include “Painful Staff Reductions”—and Forcible Return to Home Countries
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, August 29 (IPS) - The 193-member General Assembly, the UN’s highest policy-making body, will make the ultimate decision on the proposed UN restructuring, which will include staff cutbacks, merging or eliminating of departments and relocating UN agencies from high-cost to low-cost locations.
DRC: Reforesting Sites Once Used by War Displaced People
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 29 (IPS) - The Youth Circle for Nature Conservation and Community Development is working toward the reforestation of sites where displaced people lived near the town of Goma.
‘Our livelihoods have been cut off’, say West Bank farmers ahead of olive harvest
- UN News
In the occupied West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum, *Yousef stands behind a sealed iron gate, cut off from the olive trees that have sustained his family for generations.
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