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15/06/2019

Denmark’s Inger Andersen Takes Over as Head of UN Environment Programme

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Nairobi, 15 June 2019 (UN Environment)* – Danish economist and environmentalist Inger Andersen today took up her new role as Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, promising to prioritize greater action on climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution during her four-year tenure.

2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress

Inger Andersen

Ms. Andersen was nominated for the post by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and approved by the General Assembly in February 2019.

“I am proud and excited to begin work at the UN Environment Programme in beautiful Kenya at a critical time for humanity,” said Ms. Andersen.

“Good environmental stewardship has never been more important. Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution in all its forms pose a clear and present danger to human and planetary health, and to prosperity.

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15/06/2019

“As Voices for the Planet Grow Louder, We Must Get the Job Done”

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By Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UN Environment*

There is something in the air. I am not talking about pollution or greenhouse gas emissions. I am talking about the change humanity needs to address these and other environmental challenges, which have placed our planet and societies in imminent peril.

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Inger Andersen

We can all sense this change: in our workplaces and schools, in our cities and communities, in the boardroom and in the media, in parliaments and city councils, in laboratories and business incubators.

People from all corners of the world are demanding a fundamental redesign of how we – as individuals and as a society – interact with the planet.

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15/06/2019

1 in 9 People Globally Are Supported by Funds Sent Home by Migrant Workers

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Rome/New York (IFAD)* – Remittances from international migrant workers to their families are expected to rise to over US$550 billion in 2019, up some $20 billion from $529 billion last year, Gilbert F. Houngbo, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), stated on 14 June 2019.

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15/06/2019

Over 60% of South Sudan Population Projected to Face Crisis Levels of Food Insecurity or Worse

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JUBA  (FAO)*  – The number of people facing a critical lack of food in South Sudan is the highest ever, three United Nations agencies on 14 June 2019 warned.

Photo: ©FAO/Albert Gonzalez Farran

A joint rapid response to provide life-saving food and livelihoods supplies to communities in South Sudan. The number of people facing a critical lack of food in the country is the highest ever, FAO, UNICEF and WFP warn.
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15/06/2019

UN Suspends Handover of Any More Camps for Displaced Civilians to Sudanese Military, against Backdrop of Worsening Violence, Insecurity

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The joint African Union-UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), is suspending the handover of any more camps for displaced civilians to the Sudanese military, against a backdrop of worsening violence and insecurity across the country.

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UN Photo/Albert Gonzlez Farran | Tanzanian police officer Grace Ngassa (left), serving with the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), talks to a woman resident of Zam Zam camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs), near El Fasher, capital of North Darfur.

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15/06/2019

South Sudanese Facing Famine in All but Name – World Food Programme

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Record numbers in South Sudan – some seven million people – face acute food shortages, while more than 20,000 are close to famine, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday [14 June 2019].

WFP/Gabriela Vivacqua | Food distribution in Pieri, South Sudan, where WFP is assisting 29,000 people, of whom 6,600 are children under-five. (5 February 2019)

The warning, which follows years of violent unrest and vicious rights abuses linked to mass displacement, food shortages and disease outbreaks, coincides with the release of updated data on hunger levels in the country.

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15/06/2019

Yemen: Maternal and Newborn Health ‘On the Brink of Total Collapse’ – UNICEF

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After more than four years of grinding conflict in Yemen, healthcare for mothers and their babies is “on the brink of collapse”, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday [14 June 2019], in a report that highlights the difficulties of childbirth and parenting in a war zone.
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UNICEF/Fuad | An infant who was born prematurely receives treatment in Alsabeen Hospital, Sana’a, Yemen (2018). Children born since the conflict escalated in Yemen face huge challenges in their physical, cognitive and social development

According to UNICEF, one woman and six newborns die every two hours from complications during pregnancy or childbirth.

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