Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 39
UN Staffers, Threatened with Lay-Offs, are Offered Early Retirement
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, August 12 (IPS) - The United Nations, facing a liquidity crisis, has been threatening to lay-off about 20 percent of its estimated 37,000 employees world-wide: a proposed move that has triggered widespread protests from staff unions both in New York and Geneva.
Celebrating youth: ‘When young people take the lead, everyone gains’
- UN News
Colourful blocks for stacking or perhaps an abacus for counting – these are the sorts of tactile objects one might expect to see in a kindergarten classroom.
Sudan: UN ‘deeply alarmed’ by major attack on besieged El Fasher
- UN News
The UN has expressed deep alarm over a large-scale assault by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia on El Fasher, the government-held capital of Sudan’s North Darfur State, and the nearby Abu Shouk displacement camp, which has been under siege since April 2024.
Myanmar: Rights investigators reveal ‘systematic torture’, sexual violence
- UN News
UN-mandated independent investigators have uncovered “systematic torture” in Myanmar’s military-run detention facilities – including beatings, electric shocks, strangulations and gang rape – a pattern of atrocities which is intensifying across the country.
UN80: From “Less-with-Less” to “More-with-Less”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, August 11 (IPS) - With the ink hardly dry on the Pact for the Future outcome for modernizing global governance from last September’s Summit of the Future, the United Nations’ long-standing financial crisis has morphed into an extreme liquidity crisis.
Safe seas key to global prosperity, Security Council told
- UN News
Shipping is crucial to the global economy, with more than 100,000 vessels a day transporting some 80 per cent of world commerce, but it remains vulnerable to disruptions caused by geopolitical tensions and transnational crime.
Four years on, here’s what total exclusion of women in Afghanistan looks like
- UN News
In 2021, an Afghan woman could have run for president – although none did. Spool forward to 2025, they can’t even speak in public. There is an edict from the Taliban which labels public speaking by women a moral violation.
Preparing for the next flood: Protecting women’s health in Bangladesh
- UN News
Climate change has worsened monsoon flooding in Bangladesh, putting women of child-bearing age at risk – but the UN reproductive health agency (UNFPA) is helping them prepare.
Landlocked Developing Countries to Start ‘New Decade of Delivery’
- Inter Press Service
AWAZA, Turkmenistan, August 8 (IPS) - As the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC3) concludes today (Friday, August 8) in Awaza, Turkmenistan, with the adoption of the Awaza Political Declaration and the formal endorsement of the Awaza Programme of Action (2024–2034), there is optimism that LLDCs are finally at the dawn of a new era.
Indigenous Peoples Day highlights AI’s risks and opportunities
- UN News
In honour of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on 9 August, the UN hosted a virtual commemoration on Friday on the theme AI: Defending Rights, Shaping Futures.
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