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From K-Pop heroes to net zero: 5 things to look out for at UNGA 76
- UN News
The 76th session of the UN General Assembly is due to begin on 14 September, and it will be very different from 2020’s fully virtual gathering. UNGA 76 will still be overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic, but that won’t stop leaders (some of them in the Assembly Hall) from addressing urgent global challenges. Here are five things you should know about 2021’s “hybrid” event.
Most agricultural funding distorts prices, harms environment: UN report
- UN News
Around 87% of the $540 billion in total annual government support given worldwide to agricultural producers includes measures that are price distorting and that can be harmful to nature and health.
As War Keeps Poisoning Humanity, Organizing Continues to Be the Antidote
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Sep 14 (IPS) - Last weekend, U.S. corporate media continued a 20-year repetition compulsion to evade the central role of the USA in causing vast carnage and misery due to the so-called War on Terror. But millions of Americans fervently oppose the military-industrial complex and its extremely immoral nonstop warfare.
Food Systems Summit’s Scientistic Threat
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sep 14 (IPS) - Timely interventions by civil society, including concerned scientists, have prevented many likely abuses of next week’s UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS). The Secretary General (UNSG) must now prevent UN endorsement of what remains of its prime movers’ corporate agenda.
INTERVIEW: Amid disease and destruction, new UN Assembly president highlights hope
- UN News
The incoming President of the General Assembly says that hope is desperately needed for those billions around the world struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, devastation, and strife. In his first major interview, he told UN News that the General Assembly, as the UN’s most representative body, is ideally placed to give shape to that hope.
Multiple reports of alleged human rights violations in Tigray
- UN News
UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet on Monday deplored “multiple and severe reports of alleged gross violations of human rights, humanitarian and refugee law” committed by all parties to the conflict in Tigray.
Gender equality ‘champion’ Sima Sami Bahous to lead UN Women
- UN News
Secretary-General António Guterres described Sima Sami Bahous of Jordan, as “a champion for women and girls”, announcing on Monday her appointment to lead the UN’s gender equality and empowerment entity, UN Women.
Raise Retirement Ages
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, US, Sep 13 (IPS) - Raise retirement ages! That’s the simple, clear and unavoidable message that economics and demographics are sending to governments around the world.
$1 billion pledge a ‘quantum leap’ in commitment to Afghanistan: UN chief
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday hailed significant international financial support pledged to the people of Afghanistan following a meeting in Geneva, which nearly doubled the initial $606 million flash appeal for the country.
South Sudan: Cash shortage triggers food suspensions for 100,000 displaced
- UN News
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday that beginning next month, funding shortages will force it to suspend lifesaving food assistance for more than 100,000 displaced people in parts of South Sudan until the start of 2022.
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