20/11/2020
(UN News)* — In a briefing to journalists on Thursday [19 November 2020], a senior UN humanitarian official in Sudan recounted moving testimony from refugees who are crossing the border from Ethiopia in their thousands, fleeing fighting in Tigray province.
© UNHCR/Hazim Elhag | Insecurity in the Tigray region of Ethiopia is driving people into Hamdayet in Sudan.
“Many of the refugees left behind children, and parents. They did not have time to assemble their families and leave together”, said Babacar Cissé, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan.
“They arrived at the camps after having walked for several days, exhausted and with nothing. Seeing families and children sleeping in the open was heartbreaking”.
Many of the refugees are young men, who told UN staff that they had been targeted by armed fighters.
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20/11/2020
If implemented, the commitments made under various international agreements could go a long way to addressing climate change, land degradation and biodiversity loss as well as achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, including those on dignified work, and food and water security.
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20/11/2020
(UN News)* — Pointing to its “pioneering legislation and policies”, on Thursday [19 November 2020 ] the UN chief hailed the 27-member European Union (EU) as a “a leader on climate action”, that had shown that it was possible to cut emissions while achieving economic growth.
UN Photo/David Mutua | Young girls wait by a shallow well during a humanitarian mission in drought-affected Garbahaarey, a town in southern Somalia.
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres applauded the bloc’s climate action in a virtual address to the European Council on Foreign Relations, while emphasizing that “we are still nowhere near the finish line… and still running behind in the race against time”.
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19/11/2020
(UN News)* — People, plants and animals around the world are dying from untreatable infections – even with the best medicines available – due to a rise in antimicrobial resistance, the UN food agriculture agency said on Wednesday [18 November 2020], kicking off World Antimicrobial Awareness Week.
WHO/S. Ramo | WHO says that there are not enough antibacterial treatments in clinical development worldwide to fight the growing threat of drug-resistant bacterial infections.
Antimicrobial medicines, including antibiotics, have long been overused and misused, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which added that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is “spreading further and faster every day”.
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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
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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