Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 413
WHO welcomes initiative to combat noncommunicable diseases, responsible for 7 in 10 deaths worldwide
- UN News
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, welcomed the setting up of a new Heads of State and Government Group to get the world back on track to reduce premature deaths from noncommunicable diseases like diabetes, cancer, heart and lung disease, by a third – in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - and promote mental health and well-being.
US TV Networks Covered the War in Ukraine more than the US Invasion of Iraq
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Apr 12 (IPS) - The evening news programs of the three dominant U.S. television networks devoted more coverage to the war in Ukraine last month than in any other month during all wars, including those in which the U.S. military was directly engaged, since the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq, according to the authoritative Tyndall Report. The only exception was the last war in which U.S. forces participated in Europe, the 1999 Kosovo campaign.
‘Build forward fairer’ report, urges new social contract for Asia and the Pacific
- UN News
The Asia and Pacific region’s economic recovery from COVID and other global shocks, must be anchored in an inclusive “new social contract”, to protect the vulnerable in the years ahead, according to a new Economic and Social Survey of the region, published on Tuesday by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
Why Africa is Divided Over the Russia-Ukraine War?
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 12 (IPS) - While the West has closed its ranks in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the response in Africa has hardly been uniform.
Following Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, various constituencies within the international community have reacted with a mixture of shock, anger, and trepidation as they ponder the invasion’s implications for international security.
Connecting the Dots for the Transforming Education Summit
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 11 (IPS) - Look around the world at this very moment. Whether we look at it in stark numbers and statistics, whether we look at it as a generational loss of basic human rights, including the right to an education, or whether we look inwardly and feel the unspeakable human suffering and devastation taking place, we all agree: we are at a historically low point in our collective humanity.
Ukraine war: Trauma ‘risks destroying a generation’, Security Council hears
- UN News
Increasing reports of sexual violence and human trafficking in Ukraine - allegedly committed against women and children in the context of massive displacement and the ongoing Russian invasion - are raising “all the red flags” about a potential protection crisis, the head of the UN’s gender agency warned the Security Council on Monday.
Rights expert concerned about erosion of democracy in Brazil
- UN News
Decrying the erosion of democracy in Brazil, a UN expert has called for authorities to create and maintain a safe environment conducive to the exercise of the rights to peaceful assembly and association.
Protection of older persons’ rights needed now ‘more than ever’: Bachelet
- UN News
The basic rights of older persons need to be protected today, more than ever before, said the UN human rights chief on Monday, but existing legal safeguards render them, in effect, “invisible”.
Twilight for the 1951 Refugee Convention
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, USA, Apr 11 (IPS) - Twilight for the 1951 Refugee Convention is becoming a 21st century reality for an increasing number of countries worldwide.
Oman now 100th country to ratify Maritime Labour Convention
- UN News
Oman has become the 100th country to ratify a 2006 treaty that protects the rights, pay and conditions of seafarers - a milestone that was commemorated on Monday by a ceremony at the headquarters of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva.
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