Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 32
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 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.
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.
‘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.
Teachers are the ‘guardians of our future’, says UN deputy chief
- UN News
In every corner of the world, educators are making choices that echo across generations – influencing everything from the preservation of forests to the writing of poetry, the building of bridges to the holding of peaceful elections.
Despite Taliban ban, over 90 per cent of Afghans support girls’ right to learn
- UN News
Despite the ongoing ban on girls’ secondary education, more than 90 per cent of Afghan adults support girls’ right to be in class, according to a new alert from the UN’s gender equality agency, UN Women.
Soka Gakkai President Issues Statement on Creating a World Without War to Mark 80 Years Since End of World War II
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, August 28 (IPS) - Minoru Harada, president of the Soka Gakkai Buddhist organization, has today issued a statement marking 80 years since the end of World War II, titled “Creating a Wave of Change Toward a Century Without War,” clarifying its ongoing commitment to peace.
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