05/11/2019
By UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore*
NEW YORK, 4 November 2019 (UNICEF)* -– “The latest escalation in northeast Syria brings a renewed urgency for governments to repatriate foreign children stranded in the area before it is too late.
© UNICEF/Delil Souleimain Families fleeing escalating violence in northeast Syria arrive in Tal Tamar. They arrive with the bare essentials they were able to carry as they fled the violence.
National governments have the responsibility and opportunity now to do the right thing and bring these children and their parents home where they can receive adequate care and be safe from violence and abuse.
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05/11/2019
4 November 2019 (UNHCR)* — Land route through Africa twice as deadly as Mediterranean, says UNHCR.
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The UN refugee agency’s special envoy for the central Mediterranean, Vincent Cochetel, told a German newspaper, Welt am Sonntag, on Sunday [3 November 2019] that while more than 1,000 people have died or gone missing attempting to cross the Mediterranean this year, the land journey across Africa to reach the Mediterranean is even more lethal.
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05/11/2019
5 November 2019 (UN Environment)* — Message from UN Environment’s Executive Director on the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict:
Photo by Hassan Partow/UNEP
In recent decades, two fundamental changes have shaped the way the international community understands challenges to peace and security.
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05/11/2019
Unbearable levels of air pollution in India’s capital of New Delhi, declared a public health emergency by the local government as of Monday [4 November 2019], have made “the invisible killer, visible”, a UN senior pollution expert has said. *
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05/11/2019
The United States announced on Monday [4 November 2019] that it was formally beginning the process of withdrawal from the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, signed by 193 countries in 2015. *
The UN Spokesperson’s Office issued a note to correspondents, in reaction to the notice of withdrawal, which came from US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, addressed to the Secretary-General:
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