News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 90
8 million teens in world's wealthiest countries functionally illiterate: UNICEF
- UN News
Children in many of the world’s wealthiest countries saw marked declines in their academic performance, mental wellbeing, and physical health as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report published by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday.
Funding cuts in Afghanistan mean ‘lives lost and lives less lived’
- UN News
In a remote village clinic in the Bamyan Province in Afghanistan last week, a group of teenage girls were given potentially life-saving reproductive health advice, excited by the small kit of menstrual supplies they had been given.
‘Politically unacceptable, morally repugnant’: UN chief calls for global ban on 'killer robots'
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has once again called for a global ban on lethal autonomous weapon systems – machines capable of taking human lives without human oversight – describing them as “politically unacceptable” and “morally repugnant.”
World News in Brief: Sudan refugees, aid for Syrian returnees, MERS alert in Saudi Arabia, Venezuela urged to end secret detentions
- UN News
More than 40,000 Sudanese have fled to eastern Chad in the past month to escape intensifying violence in Darfur.
Hungary's LGBTQI Amendment an Affront to Human Rights, Say Activists
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, May 13 (IPS) - A controversial amendment to Hungary’s constitution has left the country’s LGBTQI community both defiant and fearful, rights groups have said.
UN80 Initiative: Equipping the Organization in an Era of Extraordinary Uncertainty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (IPS) - Next month marks the 80th anniversary of the United Nations Charter.
The Charter is our roadmap to a better world – our owner’s manual setting out purposes and principles – and our practical guide to advancing the three pillars of our work: peace and security, development and human rights.
UN’s Proposed Structural Changes Laid Out in a “Strictly Confidential” Internal Document
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (IPS) - A six-page internal document, marked “STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL” on every single page – indicating restricted access to protect sensitive information-- is one of the most comprehensive “compilation of non-attributable suggestions by the UN80 Task Force” on the proposed restructuring of the world body.
Half of women’s organizations in crisis zones risk closure within six months
- UN News
Women’s organisations operating in crisis settings are being pushed to the brink by widespread funding cuts. In a report published on Tuesday, UN Women – the UN agency for gender equality – warned that 47 per cent of these groups may be forced to close within the next six months.
US deportations raise serious human rights concerns
- UN News
The UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk has voiced concern over the recent deportation of large numbers of non-nationals from the United States, particularly to third countries.
Number of internally displaced breaks new record with no let-up in conflicts, disasters
- UN News
A record 83.4 million people have been forced from their homes around the world, fuelled by an increase in disasters and conflict, the UN migration agency, IOM, said on Tuesday.
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