Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 459
Violence, insecurity and climate change drive 84 million people from their homes
- UN News
As more people flee violence, insecurity and the effects of climate change, the number forcibly displaced now exceeds 84 million globally, according to new data released on Thursday by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.
Social Movement Voices Fall on Deaf Ears of Governments at COP26
- Inter Press Service
GLASGOW, Nov 11 (IPS) - One element that runs through all social movement climate summits is their rejection of the official meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the low ambition of its outcomes - and the treaty's 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) was no exception.
New UNESCO education report calls for ‘new social contract’
- UN News
Imagining a new future for education by 2050, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is asking three questions: What should be continued? What should be abandoned? And what needs to be creatively invented afresh?
COP26: Avoiding Carbon Tunnel Vision: Action on Climate Change Needs an Inter-connected Response
- Inter Press Service
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Nov 10 (IPS) - With the UN climate change conference – COP26 – continuing this week in Glasgow, it’s obvious that there is consensus among a majority of world leaders and key stakeholders that much more needs to be done, if the ambition of keeping global warming to a 1.5-degree increase is to have any chance of being met. Yet talk, as they say, is cheap. Or, in the words of Greta: too much “blah, blah, blah” and not enough action.
Resolve ‘intolerable’ Belarus-Poland border migrant crisis: UN rights chief
- UN News
The UN Human Rights High Commissioner has urged Belarus and Poland to urgently resolve the burgeoning migrant crisis on their mutual border, where thousands of people have gathered in an attempt to enter the European Union (EU).
COP26 - Adapting to the Climate Crisis
- Inter Press Service
OTTAWA, Canada, Nov 09 (IPS) - Look up any map showing today’s global humanitarian crises and you’ll find it awash in red alerts more than ever before. Climate emergencies are fast emerging in new areas that have never previously witnessed them, and they are accelerating humanity’s march towards the precipice in regions long battered by conflict, hunger and displacement.
West of The Nile and Around The Sudd
- Inter Press Service
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, Nov 09 (IPS) - Tensions and hostilities persisted until early 2019, when the regime of Omar al-Bashir - to a large extent symbolized by oppressing minority groups in the Darfurs, Blue Nile state and South Kordofan - finally ended. Meanwhile, many inhabitants of the Nuba Mountains and other parts of South Kordofan, had escaped to South Sudan, which had become independent in 2011.
Indigenous Peoples Want to Move Towards Clean Energy Sovereignty
- Inter Press Service
GLASGOW, Nov 09 (IPS) - In the community of Bella Bella on Turtle Island in the western Canadian province of British Columbia, the indigenous Heiltsuk people capture heat from the air through devices in 40 percent of their homes, in a plan aimed at sustainable energy sovereignty.
Uphold safety, human rights on Belarus-Poland border, UN agencies urge
- UN News
With news footage showing migrants on the border between Belarus and Poland attempting to dodge teargas and make their way through razor wire, UN agencies called for an “immediate de-escalation”, following weeks of rising tension.
Israeli military deauthorization of Palestine NGOs, 'deepens concern' of UN agencies
- UN News
UN Agencies and the Association International Development Agencies (AIDA) said on Tuesday they were standing firmly behind civil society organisations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, following an Israely military decision to de-authorize six NGOs.
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