22/11/2019
Rome (FAO)* — Fisheries are facing an important crossroad and the world needs a new vision for fisheries in the 21st century. This was FAO-Director General Qu Dongyu’s main message today [18 November 2019] at the opening of the UN agency’s International Symposium on Fisheries Sustainability (18-21 November).
Somali fishers carrying their catch ashore.
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22/11/2019
There is a clear link between the seedy underbelly of the seafood industry, and fishers’ safety, now ranked as the second deadliest profession in the world; and more must be done to ensure people dependent on this type of labour are working in safe conditions, UN partners urged on Thursday [21 November 2019]. *
UN Photo/Martine Perret | Fisherman in Timor Leste casts net in the water to catch small fish. UN Photo/Martine Perret
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22/11/2019
21 November 2019 — A group of thirty men in Gaza have succeeded in preventing the early marriage of girls under the age of 18, from 50 different families, thanks to a training programme supported by the UN gender agency, UN Women. (*).
UN Women/Eunjin Jeong | Mossa Abu Taema, one of the 20 first ambassadors of change who persuaded his community members to stop early marriages.
One of them, Mossa Abu Taema, convinced the father of a 16-year-old in one of the most conservative villages in eastern Khan Younis, a border town in the Gaza Strip, to cancel her wedding and allow her to continue her education. An estimated 21 per cent of marriages in Gaza in 2017, involved girls under-18.
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21/11/2019
Antimicrobial resistance is a problem not just in our hospitals, but on our farms and for the safety of our food, too. ©FAO/Hoang Dinh Nam
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21/11/2019
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 2019 (IPS)* –– The 15-member UN Security Council (UNSC) stands virtually paralyzed in the face of genocide charges against the government of Myanmar where over 730,000 to one million Rohingya Muslims have been forced to flee to neighboring Bangladesh since a 2016 crackdown by Myanmar’s military.
Rohingya refugee children wade through flood waters surrounding their families’ shelters following an intense pre-monsoon storm in Shamlapur makeshift settlement in Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh. Credit: UNICEF/UN0213967/Sokol
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21/11/2019
By UN News* — Regardless of any national policy declarations, Israeli settlement activities are “a flagrant violation under international law”, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process spelled out to the Security Council on Wednesday [20 November 2019].
IRIN/Erica Silverman | West Bank Israeli settlement of Har Gilo, located near Jerusalem.
Regretting the United States’ announcement on Monday [18 November 2019] that it “no longer views settlements as inconsistent with international law”, Nickolay Mladenov told the 15-member Council that “the UN position remains unchanged”.
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19/11/2019
Representatives from across the Middle East are meeting at UN Headquarters this week in efforts to negotiate a legally binding treaty establishing a regional zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. (*).
UN Photo/Manuel Elias | A view of the sculpture – Good Defeats Evil – on the UN Headquarters grounds, presented to the UN by the Soviet Union on the occasion of the Organization’s 45th anniversary.
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Speaking on Monday
[18 November 2019] during the inaugural session of the
deliberations on a nuclear-weapon free Middle East, UN Secretary-General
António Guterres said the zone would have significance beyond the region.
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19/11/2019
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at 12 November 2019 press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva | Español | Français | عربي
A child stands outside tents at a site for internally displaced persons in Kasenyi. © UNHCR/John Wessels
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed that hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are not only living in dire conditions without proper assistance but are unprotected and exposed to extreme human rights violations on a daily basis. (*).
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19/11/2019
(UN News)* — More than 5.4 million children are detained around the world, rights experts said on Monday [18 November 2019], highlighting “aggressive” State counter-terrorism measures for the spike in youngsters held for alleged links with armed conflict or national security concerns based on their social media posts.
© UNICEF/UN052682/Romenzi | Fourteen-year-old Issaa, a migrant from Niger, rests his hand on a gate inside a detention centre, in Libya, in January 2017. His mother died two years ago in Niger. He managed to set aside US$450, which he hoped would pay for a crossing by boat to Italy. He was arrested and detained before he was able to board a boat.
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19/11/2019
(UN News)* — Over the last three months (August to October 2019), around one-third of the Afghan population required urgent humanitarian action, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Alert, released on Monday [18 November 2019 ], which declares that some 10.23 million people are living in a state of “severe acute food insecurity”.
UNAMA/Eric Kanalstein | In Afghanistan, despite favourable growing conditions for crops, many people are not getting enough to eat.
The IPC, a coalition of UN agencies and other partners, classifies food insecurity in five distinct phases, from phase 1 (Minimal/ None), to phase 5 (Catastrophic/Famine): around 2.44 million Afghan are believed to be in an Emergency situation (phase 4), and 7.79 million in a Crisis situation (phase 3).
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