16/06/2020
(UN News)* — Boys and girls used and abused in armed conflict have had their childhoods replaced by “pain, brutality and fear while the world watches”, the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, said on Monday [15 June 2020].
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© UNICEF/Helene Sandbu Ryeng | On 26 May 2020 in Juba, South Sudan, children released from armed forces are seated on the ground while negotiations for their reintegration take place.
Launching the Secretary-General’s Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba maintained that parties to conflict often “neglect to protect children in the conduct of hostilities and deny them the vital aid they desperately need”. The tragedy children face continued unabated throughout 2019, the report highlighted, disclosing that the UN had verified over 25,000 grave violations against children.
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16/06/2020
17 June 2020 (Wall Street International)* — The amazing turn of events in the USA in the two weeks following the horrific killing of George Floyd, cradled within an even more astounding turn of events across the world in the last few months, offers us an occasion for stunned reflection. Humanity’s deep faultlines – racist, masculinist, classist, casteist, and more – have been sharply exposed in both. As have the faultlines between humanity and the rest of nature, and those of what we have mistakenly come to call ‘democracy’.
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15/06/2020
By Hilde F. Johnson, Norway’s Former Minister of International Development*
15 June 2020 (Wall Street International)* — The Corona crisis could lead half a billion people into poverty. That is 8 percent of the world’s population. This according to a new UN report. COVID-19 risks becoming a major accelerator of poverty.
The report is based on data from the World Bank and presents three different scenarios and their impact on poor households. In all of them, global poverty will increase and the fate of poor people around the world will worsen.
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15/06/2020
14 June 2020 (UN News)* — A group of more than twenty senior leaders in the UN, who report directly to Secretary-General António Guterres, and who are African or of African descent, have put their names to a personal and hard-hitting statement published on Friday
[12 June 2020], expressing their outrage at pervasive and systemic racism, highlighting the need to ‘go beyond and do more’ than just offering condemnation.
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Hazel Plunkett | An impromptu memorial for George Floyd, who was killed after being restrained by police, has been set up in Harlem, New York City.
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15/06/2020
Around one in six older people face abuse worldwide. Despite this fact, elder abuse remains invisible.
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15 June 2020 (UN)* — Emerging evidence is showing violence, abuse and neglect of older people has increased since the outbreak of COVID-19. We’ve also seen many cases reported in the media.
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) is an opportunity to raise awareness of the problem and influence key people to stop it. Join us on 15 June to expose elder abuse.
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15/06/2020
Left: A market vendor sells produce at Victoria Market in Port Victoria, Seychelles. Right: Christine Banlog has been a market woman for 22 years. She is now 64, widowed, and raising her three grandchildren in Nyalla, a locality in the city of Douala, Cameroon. UN Women/Ryan Brown
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14/06/2020
From Bolivia to Berlin, Bosasso to Bangkok, tens of thousands of migrants today find themselves stranded in the midst of their migratory journeys as a result of COVID-19, often in precarious situations.
A group of Ethiopian migrants seek shelter beneath a tree while a friend checks the empty highway for a possible ride, dwarfed by the Guban (Burned) Plains near Berbera, Somalia. The men have walked hundreds of kilometres on their journey to the port city of Bossaso, where they hope to be smuggled into Yemen and ultimately, to the Gulf in search of work, unaware that they will instead join tens of thousands of other migrants worldwide stranded mid-journey. IOM Photo /Muse Mohammed
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14/06/2020
13 June 2020 (UN News)* — Responding to the decision of the United States Government to sanction International Criminal Court (ICC) officials and their family members, O-Gon Kwon, President of the Assembly of States Parties, the body that oversees the ICC, denounced the measures which, he said, undermine the “endeavour to fight impunity and to ensure accountability for mass atrocities”.
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas | Permanent headquarters of the International Criminal Court at The Hague. (file)
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13/06/2020
GNÄBE BUGLÉ REGION, Panama, 11 June 2020 (UNFPA)* – Carmen was two days into an excruciating labour when she was carried to the nearest health clinic – three hours away – in a hammock held aloft by community members.
For some communities, the nearest health centre is two days away. ©UNFPA Panama/Osman Esquivel López
Her situation was life-threatening, but she had been unable to seek care earlier because transportation had been suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic and rains had delayed travel by foot.
“The population is very distant, days away from adequate care. There is no transportation,” said Ángel Rodríguez, a nurse at the Soloy Health Centre, where Carmen was taken. In the end, Carmen was lucky. She safely delivered a healthy baby boy.
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13/06/2020
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s [12 June 2020 ] press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva* | Español | Français | عربي
A young girl shelters with a blanket on the beach on Lesvos, Greece, March 2, 2020. She had just crossed the Aegean sea from Turkey in a dinghy. © Image Eurokinissi via ZUMA Wire),Ritzau Scanpix,
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is urging Greece to investigate multiple reports of pushbacks by Greek authorities at the country’s sea and land borders, possibly returning migrants and asylum seekers to Turkey after they had reached Greek territory or territorial waters.
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