23/06/2020
Message to Ostracized World Leaders: You Don’t Need a US Visa to Address the UN
Human Wrongs Watch
– The coronavirus pandemic is beginning to transform the United Nations into an institution far beyond recognition. The Secretariat building has been shut down since mid-March, and the UN campus will continue to remain a ghost town through end July– and perhaps beyond– with nearly 3,000 staffers, delegates and journalists working, mostly from home.
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23/06/2020
Better Knowledge for Better Care – International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

A staff member of the Liberia National Police Anti-Drug Squad reviews the municipal dump outside Monrovia, Liberia, where they are burning nearly 400 kg of marijuana and other drugs that were confiscated between 2011 and 2012. UN Photo/Staton Winter
23/06/2020
COVID-19 Upends ‘Entire Generation’ of 600 Million South Asian Children
(UN News)* — Without urgent action, COVID-19 will continue to unravel decades of progress across South Asia, destroying the “hopes and futures of an entire generation”, warns a new report released on Tuesday [23 June 2020] by the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF.


