23/03/2019
22 March 2019 — In the wake of a horrific mass shooting at two New Zealand mosques, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has announced his intention to launch a UN action plan for the safeguarding of religious sites, declaring that “mosques and all places of prayer and contemplation should be safe havens, not sites of terror.”*
UN Photo/Evan Schneider | UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaking during his visit to the Islamic Cultural Centre of New York, on 22 March 2019.
Mr. Guterres was addressing representatives of the press at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, to show his solidarity with the worldwide Muslim community, a week after the murder of some 50 Muslim worshippers by a gunman in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 15.
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23/03/2019
22 March 2019 — Against a background of serious warnings against the effects of climate change, World Meteorological Day this year celebrates the crucial role played by the sun in powering all life on Earth, and in driving the weather, ocean currents and the hydrological cycle.*
WMO/Gyuho Shin | Stone tower with solar halo at sunrise at Kimso Mountain, Republic of Korea.
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23/03/2019
22 March 2019 — Fundamentally linked to human development, gender justice requires ending inequality and redressing existing disparities between women and men, according to a high-level United Nations forum on the situation in Arab States.*
UNICEF/Sari Omer | Young girls in Gumam primary school, Kassala state, Sudan.
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23/03/2019
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 21 2019 (IPS)* –
The dramatic increase in women legislators voted into office last November and the historic high of women candidates for the 2020 presidential elections have visibly changed the male-dominated political landscape in the US.
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Some of the US women legislators elected to office in November 2018
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23/03/2019
The report, to be released in the last quarter of the year, will provide a comprehensive picture of the many forms of inequality that are shaping the 21st Century. (Click here for FRENCH and SPANISH)
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HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 