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Lifesaving help needed for Venezuela cancer patients hit by US sanctions
- UN News
Independent UN rights experts on Wednesday warned that hundreds of Venezuelan cancer patients could die because they have been caught up in the excessively strict application of United States sanctions aimed at Venezuela and the state-owned oil company, Petroleum of Venezuela.
Botswana Police use Israeli Cellebrite Tech to Search Another Journalists Phone
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 21 (IPS) - Tsaone Basimanebotlhe was not expecting security agents to appear at her home in a village outside Gaborone, Botswana’s capital, in July 2019, she told CPJ in a recent interview. But they didn’t come to arrest or charge her, she recalled – they came for her devices, hunting for the source for an article published by her employer, Mmegi newspaper.
Shortages Reveal Low Priority of Women’s Health in Nepal
- Inter Press Service
Kathmandu, Nepal, Jul 21 (IPS) - One year after Nepal’s Ministry of Health (MoH) appealed to international organisations in the country to urgently supply a drug used to stop excessive bleeding after childbirth, a UN agency has delivered $1 million worth of contraceptives to prevent another shortage.
Nelson Mandela: 'Synonymous with the fight for justice and equality'
- UN News
Celebrating what would have been Nelson Mandela’s 102nd birthday on Wednesday, the UN deputy chief hailed the man who led the struggle that ended the racist apartheid system in his native South Africa as exemplifying “courage, compassion and an unwavering commitment to social justice and equality”.
Liverpool’s historic waterfront removed from World Heritage List
- UN News
Historic docklands and buildings in the UK city of Liverpool have been removed from the UN cultural body UNESCO’s list of World Heritage sites, it announced on Wednesday.
Vaccines Delayed are Vaccines Denied
- Inter Press Service
Jul 20 (IPS) - “Vaccine equity is the challenge of our time,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), told the gathering in opening remarks. “And we are failing”at a special ministerial meeting of the Economic and Social Council.
The Centenary of the Disaster of Annual
- Inter Press Service
MIAMI, Jul 20 (IPS) - It would seem that those responsible for the recent immigration crisis in Ceuta and Melilla have coordinated their strategy to commemorate the centenary of one of the most serious defeats that Spain has suffered in its foreign relations. One hundred years ago, the Spanish armies suffered one of the most painful losses in its history.
Myanmar Struggles in the Grip of Coup and Covid
- Inter Press Service
Rome, Italy, Jul 20 (IPS) - The third wave of Covid-19 is sweeping through Myanmar, from the high narrow buildings of the commercial capital Yangon to bamboo houses in rural areas.
Conceptual Advances for United Nations 2.0
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Jul 20 (IPS) - The forthcoming UN Secretary-General’s “Our Common Agenda” report, to be released before this year’s UN General Assembly High-Level Week, is expected to offer ambitious recommendations to accelerate the realization of the UN75 Declaration as the world comes to grips with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Iraq: Bomb attack on eve of Eid al-Adha, ‘terrorism knows no bounds’
- UN News
Secretary-General António Guterres strongly condemned the “horrific bomb attack targeting civilians” at a busy market in the north-east of the Iraqi capital, just before the Eid al-Adha holiday.
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