19/11/2020
(UN News)* — Criminals and violent extremists are exploiting the pandemic to build their support networks, undermine trust in government and even weaponize the virus, according to a research report published on Wednesday [18 November 2020] by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI).
Unsplash/Markus Spiske | The COVID-19 pandemic is being exploited by criminals and violent extremists to build their support and undermine trust in governments.
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“Terrorist, violent extremist and organized criminal groups are trying to take advantage of the
Coronavirus disease (
COVID-19) pandemic to expand their activities and jeopardize the efficacy and credibility of response measures by governments”, UNICRI Director Antonia Marie De Meo wrote in the introduction to the report, entitled “Stop the virus of disinformation”.
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18/11/2020
NEW YORK, Nov 16 2020 (IPS)* – “This is a crisis without a quick fix that could take years to resolve unless there are concerted efforts to address its root causes”, says Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF Director of Emergency Programmes.
Female Training at centers. Credit: Bidyanondo Foundation
The Rohingya refugee crisis is among the largest and fastest-growing displacement of people in recent history. Since August 2017, close to a million Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar and taken refuge in Bangladesh. The Rohingyas are “one of, if not the most discriminated people in the world” said the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
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18/11/2020
17 November 2020 (UNHCR)* — UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning that a full-scale humanitarian crisis is unfolding as thousands of refugees flee ongoing fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region each day to seek safety in eastern Sudan – an influx unseen over the last two decades in this part of the country. | Français | عربي
Ethiopian refugees cross the border into Hamdayet, Sudan, leaving the Tekeze River in the background. © UNHCR/Hazim Elhag
Women, men and children have been crossing the border at the rate of 4,000 per day since 10 November, rapidly overwhelming the humanitarian response capacity on the ground.
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18/11/2020
(UN News)* — A UN-backed fund, launched on Tuesday [17 November 2020 ], is set to take on the centuries-old crisis centred around sanitation, hygiene and menstrual health, which now impacts more than four billion people across the world.
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© UNICEF/Antoine Raab | Children at a school in Cambodia wash their hands using a water facility provided by UNICEF.
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Speaking, via a video message, at the launch of the Fund, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed described safe sanitation and hygiene as “critical to the response that we want to see, first, because it is about human dignity; second, it is a health issue.”
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18/11/2020
(UN News)* — The United Nations
released $100 million of emergency funding on Tuesday
[17 November 2020] to stave off the risk of famine in seven countries most at risk from a hunger epidemic fueled by conflict, economic decline, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
UNICEF | A Yemeni child suffering from malnutrition at a treatment centre in a hospital in Sana’a. (file)
Mark Lowcock, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said $80 million would be split between Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen, which would get the biggest tranche of $30 million. A further $20 million had been set aside for Ethiopia, where droughts could worsen an already fragile situation.
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17/11/2020
It’s something that many of us might take for granted. In New York State for example, ingredients for a simple meal – perhaps a soup or a simple stew – costs just 0.6 percent of someone’s income.
Contrast this with South Sudan, where a shopper would have to spend an astonishing 186 percent of their income to do the same.
Such a difference brings into sharp focus the huge inequalities at play between those people in developing countries and others in more prosperous parts of the world.
Conflict and climate change have long affected people’s ability to afford food across multiple countries, as they are driven from their land and livelihoods and left unable to produce or buy the produce they need to feed their families.
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17/11/2020
(UN News)* — A new trade bloc covering a huge swathe of the Asia-Pacific region will play an important role in developing poorer economies and in post-pandemic stimulus, according to a report published on Monday [16 November 2020] by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
ILO/ Marcel Crozet | The production floor of an apparel exporting factory in Cambodia.
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement (RCEP) was signed on Sunday by 15 countries including China, Japan, Australia, Vietnam and South Korea, jointly covering a total population of more than 2.3 billion people – five times the size of the European Union.
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17/11/2020
(UN News)* — “Hunger is an outrage in a world of plenty”, the UN chief told the governing body of the Organization’s food agency on Monday [16 November 2020], highlighting the important role of food security in cementing peace.
WFP/Barry Came | Displaced victims of the West Java tsunami in Indonesia collect World Food Programme (WFP) food aid.
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“An empty stomach is a gaping hole in the heart of a society. A stunted child’s growth in the mind is progress for her and for everyone”, Secretary-General António Guterres attested to the Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP).
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