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(UN News)* — UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday [] called on the world to “stop the madness” of climate change as he visited the Everest region in Nepal where melting glaciers are putting entire communities at risk of extinction.
“The rooftops of the world are caving in,” the UN chief said, warning that the “disappearance of glaciers altogether” looms even larger.
Geneva/Cairo/Port Sudan, 16 October 2023 (IOM)* – Six months into the conflict, Sudan has become the largest internal displacement crisis in the world with over 7.1 million people displaced within the country, 4.5 million of whom have been displaced since violence erupted in mid-April, according to the latest figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has appealed to the world to renew its commitment to a poverty-free world.
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The 20th Century saw a great global uprising against European imperialism as the former colonial countries shook off their shackles and rose up for independence. More than a half century later, global inequality is sharper than ever before.
To understand the current predicament of the vast majority of the world’s people, we must understand the intervening decades.
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Bills Would Imprison Young Texans, Give Law Enforcement Outsized Power
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, right, holds a news conference as members of the Texas National Guard prepare to deploy to the Texas-Mexico border in Austin, Texas, May 8, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Eric Gay
(Austin, TX) – Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has called a special session of the Texas legislature for October 10, 2023 to consider proposals that would increase human rights violations and lead to long sentences for thousands of young Texans, Human Rights Watch said today [6 October 2023].
The government pushed a law through the Sejm, Poland’s lower house of parliament, in August to make this referendum possible.
UN-verified cases up by more than 40 per cent in the first half of 2023.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 28 September 2023 (UNICEF)* – The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is on track to have record levels of verified grave violations against children for a third consecutive year in 2023.
Deaths and disappearances on the Central Mediterranean route tripled this summer compared to the same period last year
GENEVA/ROME, 29 September 2023 (UNICEF)* – More than 11,600 children crossed the Central Mediterranean Sea to Italy without their parents or legal guardians between January and mid-September 2023. This is an increase of 60 per cent compared to the same period last year, where around 7,200 unaccompanied or separated children made the perilous crossing.
(UN News)* — An estimated 13.4 million babies were born early in 2020, with nearly one million dying from preterm complications, UN agencies and partners said in a new report on Thursday [].
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(UN News)* — Senior UN officials on Thursday [] reiterated the call for protection of children and ensuring their rights at all times, as enshrined in international law, and ending impunity for crimes against them.
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