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
11 June 2020 (UNHCR)* – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency is alarmed over escalating violence in the Sahel region which has seen hundreds of innocent civilians targeted in recent weeks, triggered more displacement and is seriously hindering humanitarian activities.| Español | Français | عربي
Hamidou, 14, an internally displaced Burkinabe, pictured in Kaya, Burkina Faso, February 2020. © UNHCR/Sylvain Cherkaoui
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14/06/2020
By Alexandra Stenbock-Fermor and Jean-Jacques Soha in Bele, Democratic Republic of the Congo*
A simple yet effective hygiene initiative is helping refugees make their own handwashing devices to fight COVID-19 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.| Español | Français
Chris, a South Sudanese refugee, stands next to the tippy tap he made in his compound in Bele settlement, Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UNHCR/Jean-Jacques Soha
10 June 2020 (UNHCR)* — A plastic jerrycan filled with water rests snugly between the trunks of a small tree in front of Ferida’s shelter in Bele settlement, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Haut Uele Province.
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14/06/2020
Cox’s Bazar, 13 June 2020 (IOM)* – Social distancing is a crucial aspect in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. But that poses challenges to the flow of key information during a time when being well-informed also is critical to public health.
A Rohingya volunteer cyclist pictured before his shift with a megaphone and key messages in tow. Photo: IOM/Mashrif Abdullah Al
In Cox’s Bazar, the world’s largest refugee camp, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) continues to explore new ways to bring key messaging to Rohingya and host community members throughout the district.
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14/06/2020
© UNICEF/Giovanni Diffidenti | A child runs through the debris and wreckage in downtown Benghazi, Libya.
The UN Support Mission in Libya,
UNSMIL announced, on Thursday
[11 June 2020], the discovery of at least eight graves in Tarhouna, around 100 kilometres southeast of the capital, Tripoli, and formerly a stronghold for the forces of General Haftar, during his campaign to capture Tripoli, which has now lasted over a year.
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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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