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62 journalists killed in 2020, just for doing their jobs: UNESCO
- UN News
In 2020 alone, according to UN cultural agency UNESCO, which works to protect media workers, 62 journalists were killed just for doing their jobs. Between 2006 and 2020, over 1,200 professionals lost their lives the same way. In nine out of ten cases the killers go unpunished.
Mediation efforts to resolve Sudan crisis underway, UN envoy reports
- UN News
Multiple mediation efforts are underway in Sudan one week after the military seized power, UN Special Representative for the country, Volker Perthes, told journalists in New York on Monday.
Bachelet: right to social security, matter of ‘the utmost urgency’
- UN News
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Monday that the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, and the changing world of work, makes the right to social security for all, “a matter of the utmost urgency.”
UNAIDS upholds decriminalization, access to services, on International Drug Users’ Day
- UN News
People who use drugs should not be criminalized, the UN agency leading the global fight to stamp out HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) said on Monday, in calling for greater funding for community-led harm reduction programmes.
Risky business: Why Sustainability is now Central to Mitigating Risk
- Inter Press Service
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Nov 01 (IPS) - The Middle East Green Initiative launched in Saudi Arabia last month was hailed by the UN’s deputy chief as a valuable commitment and strategic vision, to transition regional economies away from unsustainable development, to a model “fit for the challenges of the 21st century”The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly caused the largest economic and societal shock the world has experienced this century. Yet it was not unforeseen.
After a 20-Month Lockdown, UN Plans to Return to Near-Normal by Mid-November
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 01 (IPS) - The United Nations, which suffered a pandemic lockdown over the last 20 months-- with most staffers tele-working from their homes-- is expected to return to near-normal, come November 15.
COP26: Enough of ‘treating nature like a toilet’ – Guterres brings stark call for climate action to Glasgow
- UN News
As the World Leaders Summit opened on day two of COP26, UN chief António Guterres sent a stark message to the international community. “We are digging our own graves”, he said, referring to the addiction to fossil fuels which threatens to push humanity and the planet, to the brink, through unsustainable global heating.
Honor five million lives lost to COVID-19 by making vaccine equity a reality, Guterres says
- UN News
As the world on Monday passed yet another sombre pandemic milestone – five million lives lost to COVID-19 – Secretary-General António Guterres called on global leaders to back the UN strategy to make vaccine equity a reality by accelerating efforts and ensuring maximum vigilance to defeat the virus.
COP26 opens in Glasgow with calls for ambitious solutions to tackle climate emergency
- UN News
The eyes of the world are on Glasgow, Scotland, as the United Nations climate summit known as COP26 opens with UN diplomats and politicians alike calling for more action – and ambition – to set out new commitments for curbing greenhouse emissions and adapting to the impacts of a warming planet.
Reducing methane emissions vital for climate action, but not ‘get out of jail free card’
- UN News
A new reporting hub to reduce methane emissions – a powerful greenhouse gas responsible for at least a quarter of global warming – was launched on Sunday by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), as the UN Climate Conference (COP26) kicked off in Glasgow.
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