19/11/2019
Representatives from across the Middle East are meeting at UN Headquarters this week in efforts to negotiate a legally binding treaty establishing a regional zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. (*).
UN Photo/Manuel Elias | A view of the sculpture – Good Defeats Evil – on the UN Headquarters grounds, presented to the UN by the Soviet Union on the occasion of the Organization’s 45th anniversary.
Speaking on Monday [18 November 2019] during the inaugural session of the deliberations on a nuclear-weapon free Middle East, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the zone would have significance beyond the region.
“I therefore hope this Conference will serve as the start of an inclusive process in which all the States of the region can participate,” he said.
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19/11/2019
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at 12 November 2019 press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva | Español | Français | عربي
A child stands outside tents at a site for internally displaced persons in Kasenyi. © UNHCR/John Wessels
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed that hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are not only living in dire conditions without proper assistance but are unprotected and exposed to extreme human rights violations on a daily basis. (*).
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19/11/2019
(UN News)* — More than 5.4 million children are detained around the world, rights experts said on Monday [18 November 2019], highlighting “aggressive” State counter-terrorism measures for the spike in youngsters held for alleged links with armed conflict or national security concerns based on their social media posts.
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© UNICEF/UN052682/Romenzi | Fourteen-year-old Issaa, a migrant from Niger, rests his hand on a gate inside a detention centre, in Libya, in January 2017. His mother died two years ago in Niger. He managed to set aside US$450, which he hoped would pay for a crossing by boat to Italy. He was arrested and detained before he was able to board a boat.
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19/11/2019
(UN News)* — Over the last three months (August to October 2019), around one-third of the Afghan population required urgent humanitarian action, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Alert, released on Monday [18 November 2019 ], which declares that some 10.23 million people are living in a state of “severe acute food insecurity”.
UNAMA/Eric Kanalstein | In Afghanistan, despite favourable growing conditions for crops, many people are not getting enough to eat.
The IPC, a coalition of UN agencies and other partners, classifies food insecurity in five distinct phases, from phase 1 (Minimal/ None), to phase 5 (Catastrophic/Famine): around 2.44 million Afghan are believed to be in an Emergency situation (phase 4), and 7.79 million in a Crisis situation (phase 3).
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19/11/2019
18 November 2019 (UN News)* — Ending the practice of defecating in the open, rather than in a toilet, will have “transformational benefits” for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, says the UN’s partner sanitation body, the WSSCC (Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council).
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© WSSCC/Jason Florio | As the population in Nigeria increases, efforts are underway to ensure that open defecation does not increase.
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19/11/2019
What is World Toilet Day all About?
Payal (left) and Nisha (right) are happy to have a toilet in their school in Kakrana village. When schools have clean water, toilets and soap for handwashing, children have a healthy learning environment. © UNICEF/UN0271817/Hajra
19 November 2019 (United Nations)* — Toilets save lives, because human waste spreads killer diseases. World Toilet Day is about inspiring action to tackle the global sanitation crisis.
World Toilet Day is celebrated on 19th November every year. It’s all about inspiring action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and help achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6), which promises sanitation for all by 2030.
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18/11/2019
NAIROBI, Kenya, 14 November 2019 (UNFPA)* – “If I had known about safe sex in my teens, my life would never have turned out this way,” said 21-year-old Sithu* from Myanmar. He contracted HIV two years ago, despite being intimate only twice with his partner at the time.
A youth activist celebrates at the Nairobi Summit closing ceremony. © Nairobi Summit
Like millions of young people around the world, Sithu had never received any kind of comprehensive sexuality education, in school or elsewhere.
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18/11/2019
Durban, 14 November 2019 (UN Environment)* – The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today launched the Global Environment Outlook-6 (GEO-6) for Youth in Africa report on the margins of the 17th session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN).
The report analyses the economic opportunities that Africa’s natural resources can provide for job creation and sustainable development. It also provides a package of solutions to tackle Africa’s youth unemployment through the Green Economy.
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17/11/2019
17 November 2019 — Saving lives by improving road safety is “one of the many objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, the United Nations chief said in his message for the global day set aside for remembering the victims of traffick accidents. (*).
© Eric Ganz | Two men transport glass panels via motor scooter in Vietnam. (file)
Noting that more than 1.3 million people die in road accidents every year, Secretary-General António Guterres pointed out that more young people between the ages of 15 and 29 die from road crashes annually than from HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis or homicide.
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17/11/2019
Senior Researcher, Children’s Rights Division
13 November 2019 (Human Rights Watch)* — New research published in the
American Journal of Industrial Medicine reinforces just how dangerous
agricultural work is for children in the United States – and how unprepared most are for what they face in the fields.
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By Margaret Wurth*
