18/07/2020
UN Photo/Ariana Lindquist | Unveiling Ceremony of Nelson Mandela Statue from South Africa
The President of the General Assembly, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, made the announcement, and will recognize the laureates during a virtual ceremony on 20 July, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
An in-person award ceremony will take place at a later date, at UN Headquarters in New York.
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18/07/2020
Although desert locusts have been here since biblical times, recent intense outbreaks can be linked to anthropogenic climate change and the increased frequency of extreme weather events, according to correspondence in Nature Climate Change.
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18/07/2020
Nouakchott, 17 July 2020 (IOM)* – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) welcomed this month the efforts of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, whose National Assembly passed on 7 July a new law against trafficking in persons and endorsed the reform of the law against the smuggling of migrants. These instruments contribute to strengthening the existing legal framework to repress and punish the perpetrators of these crimes and provide better protection and assistance to victims.
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18/07/2020
Sexual violence is used as a war tactic and a political tool to dehumanize, destabilize and forcibly displace populations across the globe, the UN’s expert on the issue told the Security Council on Friday [17 July 2020], pressing countries to adopt a survivor-centred approach that ensures victims will not be forgotten. (*).
UN Photo/Nabil Midani | Angelina Jolie, UNHCR Special Envoy, briefs the Security Council meeting on sexual violence in conflict on 17 July, 2020.
“This is a crime that shreds the very fabric that binds communities together, leaving social cohesion and safety nets threadbare,” said Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict.
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18/07/2020
Nairobi, 17 July 2020 (UN Environment)* – Coordinated international action on energy-efficient, climate-friendly cooling could avoid as much as 460 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions – roughly equal to eight years of global emissions at 2018 levels – over the next four decades, according to the Cooling Emissions and Policy Synthesis Report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Energy Agency (IEA).
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18/07/2020
(UN News)* — Hunger threatens to soar to devastating levels in 25 countries in the coming months due to the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the World Food Programme (WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are warning.
WFP/Damilola Onafuwa | Women in Nigeria collect food vouchers as part of a programme to support families
struggling under the COVID-19 lockdown.
The greatest concentration of need is in Africa, but countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia – including middle-income nations – are also being ravaged by crippling levels of food insecurity.
The two Rome-based UN agencies sounded the alarm in a joint report published on 17 July 2020 as the WFP announced that it is scaling up food assistance to an unprecedented 138 million people who face desperate levels of hunger as COVID-19 tightens its grip on some the world’s most fragile countries.
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16/07/2020
Athens, 16 July 2020 (Human Rights Watch)* – Greek law enforcement officers have summarily returned asylum seekers and migrants at the land and sea borders with Turkey during the Covid-19 lockdown, Human Rights Watch said on 16 July 2020.
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16/07/2020
Control operations ready if East Africa swarms move west
Countries in the Sahel are on high alert in case conditions become favourable for Desert Locusts in East Africa to invade west. ©FAO/Luis Tato
15 July 2020 (FAO)* — Large numbers of Desert Locust swarms that have formed in Kenya and Ethiopia since January could move west in the coming weeks, threatening fields, pastures and livelihoods in West Africa.
But national surveillance operations are in full swing, and control measures are ready because of the major early warning and rapid response effort coordinated by FAO.
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16/07/2020
The researchers from international universities and meteorological services from the Russian Federation, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom also found that temperatures were more than 2°C hotter than they would have been if humans had not influenced the climate by releasing greenhouse gas emissions.
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16/07/2020
(UN News)* — Time is fast running out for getting a UN team of experts aboard the Yemeni oil storage vessel Safer, before it spills its cargo of 1.148 million barrels of light crude oil into the Red Sea, triggering what would likely be a massive environmental and economic catastrophe, the Security Council heard on Wednesday 15 July 2020.
UNMHA (File photo) UN teams from the UNMHA mission in the crucial Yemeni port city of Hudaydah, close to where the stricken oil tanker FSO Safer, lies offshore, threatening an environmental disaster.
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