13/05/2018
As they make their global journeys, migratory birds not only set birdwatchers’ binoculars agog, they also help the planet maintain its essential ecological balance. That’s one of the key messages from United Nations chief Antonio Guterres, for World Migratory Bird Day, celebrated on Saturday 12 May 2018, with the soaring message: “Unifying Our Voices for Bird Conservation.”
Photo via WMBD | Sanderlings, the small wading birds pictured here, are long-distance migrants, wintering south to South America, South Europe, Africa, and Australia.
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13/05/2018
Three youth activists from India, Kenya and Sierra Leone on 11 May 2018 delivered a petition signed by 1.5 million of their peers to the United Nations Secretary-General that calls for more investment in education.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe | Secretary-General António Guterres (centre) attends the launch of the International Finance Facility for Education with Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown (second from right) and three Global Youth Ambassadors: Lian Wairimu Kariuki (Kenya), Asmita Ghimire (Nepal), and Ousmane Ba (Sierra Leone).
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The Global Youth Ambassadors, from the charity organization TheirWorld, were at UN Headquarters in New York in support of a funding plan launched by Gordon Brown, the UN Special Envoy for Global Education.
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13/05/2018
400,000 children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) “are at risk of death” in the Kasais region from food shortages caused by conflict and displacement, according to a senior UN official who has just returned from the area, expressing shock at what he had witnessed.
UNICEF/Vincent Tremeau | Children attend class in a temporary tent school in Mulombela village, Kasaï region, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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13/05/2018
The head of the United Nations food relief agency said on 11 May 2018 that many mothers and young children in North Korea are still relying on humanitarian assistance to meet their nutritional needs.
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WFP/Colin Kampschoer | In the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, WFP implements food-for-work activities, providing food as payment for the building or repair of community infrastructure and assets (file)
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“I see a country that is working hard to achieve food security and good nutrition,” said the Executive Director of the
World Food Programme(WFP), David Beasley, at the end of his four-day visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
WFP aims to assist 650,000 women and children in DPRK every month, providing highly nutritious, fortified cereals and biscuits that can address crucial gaps in their diets.
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13/05/2018
11 May 2018 — Sounding an alarm over a “stark increase” in hate crimes across the United Kingdom as well as “widespread discrimination” faced by ethnic minorities, a United Nations independent rights expert has called on the country to “comprehensively” combat racism and bias.
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UN News/Omar Musni | The Palace of Westminster and central London, as seen from across the River Thames.
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13/05/2018
11 May 2018 — Late last year, as violent repression in Myanmar sent Rohingyas fleeing to safety in Bangladesh, women from the mainly Muslim minority were subjected to what a United Nations official called “a frenzy of sexual violence”.
UNHCR/Roger Arnold |Rohingya families arrive at a UNHCR transit centre near the village of Anjuman Para, Cox’s Bazar, south-east Bangladesh after spending four days stranded at the Myanmar border with some 6,800 refugees. (file)
Now, a surge in births among these women is imminent, according to aid officials working in the vast refugee camps in the Cox’s Bazar region.
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13/05/2018
With the largest-ever outbreak of the deadly Lassa fever in Nigeria having been contained, continued vigilance is vital to deal with any flare-ups, the United Nations health agency on 11 May 2018 warned.
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WHO/S.Oka | A health worker checks a Lassa fever patient’s medication.
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outbreak, which started in Ogun province in south-west Nigeria in December 2016, spread across much of the country and into neighbouring Benin, Togo and Burkina Faso.
In all, 423 cases had been confirmed in Nigeria and 106 people, including eight health workers, lost their lives.
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10/05/2018
Long-term restrictions on “freedoms of expression, assembly and association” are incompatible with the holding of “credible elections” in Turkey, on 9 May 2018 said the United Nations human rights chief, calling on the Government to lift its extended state of emergency.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.
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10/05/2018
9 May 2018 — Speaking the day after the United States withdrew from an international agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency made it clear that Iran has consistently stuck to its commitments.
IAEA/Dean Calma | IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano briefs members of the media at a press conference held during the 1412th Board of Governors meeting on Iran. (file)
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09/05/2018
Source: UNCCD
To take urgent action now and halt these alarming trends would cost USD4.6 trillion – only a fraction of the predicted losses.
The outcomes of the review have been assembled into comprehensive and easy-to-use Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Country Profiles, of which 21 are already available online.
The LDN Country Profiles reveal that average losses for these 21 countries are equivalent to 9 percent of GDP. This figure is even higher for some of the planet’s worst affected countries, such as the Central African Republic, where the total losses are estimated at a staggering 40 percent
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