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Forced displacement at record level, despite COVID shutdowns: UNHCR
- UN News
The number of people fleeing wars, violence, persecution, and human rights violations, rose last year to nearly 82.4 million people, a further four percent increase on top of the already record-high of 79.5 million, recorded at the end of 2019.
António Guterres secures second term as UN Secretary-General, calls for new era of ‘solidarity and equality’
- UN News
António Guterres was on Friday re-appointed to a second term as UN Secretary-General, pledging as his priority, to continue helping the world chart a course out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Famine risk spikes amid conflict, COVID-19 and funding gaps: WFP
- UN News
The impact of conflicts old and new, climate shocks and COVID-19, in addition to a lack of funding, have left millions more on the verge of famine than six months ago, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
The Energy Revolution Is Here: How to Be Part of It
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 18 (IPS) - The industrial revolution took 100 years. The digital revolution, two decades. The next global revolution, the energy revolution, has already begun. But how fairly and how fast it happens is the biggest challenge of our time.
For People with Disabilities, COVID-19 Lays Bare the Weaknesses in Social Safety Nets
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 18 (IPS) - People with disabilities were particularly hard hit by the social and economic impacts of efforts to control COVID-19.
Political impasse in Haiti, amid rising humanitarian needs, ahead of crucial elections
- UN News
Amid worsening socioeconomic conditions, rising criminal gang violence and a resurgence of COVID-19, Haiti’s leaders must commit to good-faith dialogue aimed at ending a longstanding and damaging political impasse, the UN’s senior official in the country told the Security Council today.
Guterres: Bring crimes of sexual violence in conflict out of ‘the shadows’, punish perpetrators
- UN News
Sexual violence in conflict “reverberates down generations” and threatens both human and international security, the UN chief said on Thursday in his message for the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict.
Call for Political Belt-tightening to Prevent Drought Becoming the Next Pandemic
- Inter Press Service
BHUBANESWAR, India, Jun 17 (IPS) - June 17 is World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. A new report shows that climate change, overuse and conversion for agriculture, cities and infrastructure, which also drive drought and desertification, have already degraded one fifth of the planet’s land area.
“Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic and there is no vaccine to cure it.”
One in every 100 dies by their own hand, each suicide ‘a tragedy’ – WHO
- UN News
New research published by the UN health agency on Thursday revealed that suicide remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide – taking more lives each year than HIV, malaria, breast cancer, war and homicide.
UN chief urges debt relief extension for middle-income countries
- UN News
Innovative measures to address debt are required to help the world’s more than 100 middle-income countries expand their economies and exit the COVID-19 pandemic, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the General Assembly on Thursday.
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