26/02/2019
Paying tribute to reporters around the world who “put their lives on the line” to tell important stories, UN chief António Guterres lamented on Monday [25 February 2019] that freedom of the press was increasingly “shrinking” worldwide, and called on decision-makers to better protect journalists and media workers.
Public Domain | A video journalist covers a news event.
“We’ve come a long way towards realizing freedom of expression, and other fundamental freedoms. The right to access to information is entrenched in law in over a hundred countries,” said Secretary-General Guterres during the event, which marked the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Association of UN Correspondents (ACANU).
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26/02/2019
Four years of “mind-boggling violence” in Yemen “has not spared a single child”, a top UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official said on Monday [25 February 2019], on the eve of a pledging conference in Geneva to help alleviate the suffering of millions across the country.
UNICEF YEMEN: Abdulla brought his younger sister to the Health Medical Center where she received the needed medication in the targeted area supported by UNICEF
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“In Yemen today, nearly 1.2 million children continue to live in 31 active conflict zones including Hudaydah, Taizz, Hajjah and Sa’da – in areas witnessing heavy, war-related violence”, said Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa.
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26/02/2019
Sexual violence in conflict – and the stigma that survivors often face – must be addressed urgently, UN chief António Guterres said on Monday [25 February 2019], in a joint appeal for more funding and international action, together with the head of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer.
Aubrey Graham/IRIN | Women sit together outside a dormitory at the Heal Africa Transit Center for victims of sexual violence.
Describing how he was “frequently horrified” by the first-hand accounts of survivors in his previous role as head of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, Mr. Guterres said that only last year, Rohingya refugees who had fled into Bangladesh spoke of the mass gang-rape of women and girls in their homes, before they fled northern Myanamar.
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25/02/2019
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 2019 (IPS)* – After an exhaustive study of modern day slavery, the Geneva-based International Labour Organization (ILO) concluded there are over 40 million people who are victims of slavery, including 25 million in forced labour and 15 million in forced marriages – with at least 71 percent of them comprising women and girls.
Modern Day Slavery. Credit: UN images
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25/02/2019
Warsaw, Poland is not a fun place to visit in darkest February, but that is where the US just staged an anti-Iranian jamboree of 60 client states that brought derision and scorn from Europeans and much of the Mideast.
Eric S. Margolis
The point of this cynical exercise was to lay the diplomatic groundwork for an anti-Iranian coalition to act as a fig-leaf for an upcoming attack on Iran planned by President Donald Trump and his close ally, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.
The real question is who is calling the shots in bleak Warsaw, Trump or Bibi Netanyahu? It seems to many that the Israeli tail is again wagging the American dog.
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25/02/2019
WFP/Reem Nada | When fighting broke out in 2015, Yemen was already considered one of the world’s poorest countries.
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25/02/2019
As tensions escalated on Saturday [24 February 2019] at various points along Venezuela’s borders with Colombia and Brazil, as well as within the country itself, resulting in the death and injury of various civilians, the United Nations chief, António Guterres, and the head of the UN human rights office (OHCHR), Michelle Bachelet, expressed their shock and appealed for calm.
© UNHCR/Siegfried Modola | Colombia. Venezuelan refugees and migrants cross the Simon Bolivar Bridge, one of 7 legal entry points on the Colombia-Venezuela border.
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24/02/2019
BENI, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 18 February 2019 (UNFPA)* – When Jémima Masika, 26, lost her parents to Ebola in August, she thought deadly virus was a myth – then she fell sick herself.
Jémima Masika was infected with Ebola and survived. © UNFPA DRC/Brigitte Kiaku
“I did not believe in the existence of Ebola,” she said. “Like many, I took the disease for a [story] made up by politicians.”
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is no stranger to Ebola. This is the country’s tenth Ebola outbreak – but it is the first time the densely populated province of North Kivu, an active conflict zone, has been affected.
Ms. Masika contracted the disease while taking care of her sick aunt.
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24/02/2019
The United Nations’ gender equality entity puts spotlight on public services, income security, safe spaces and technology to advance progress for women and girls.
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New York (UN Women)* – In celebration of International Women’s Day on 8 March, UN Women is celebrating its 2019 theme of “Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change”, along with hosting hundreds of festivities around the world through the organization’s global network.
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24/02/2019
With over 3,800 civilian women, children and men killed in just one year, Afghanistan has hit yet another “deeply disturbing and wholly unacceptable” record, according to a new report issued on Sunday [24 February 2019] by the UN political mission in the country (UNAMA) and the UN human rights office (OHCHR).*
Reuters/Omar Sobhani | A group of journalists and first responders are caught in a downtown Kabul suicide attack on 30 April 2018. | Photo from UN News.
Fighting and brutal violence claimed exactly 3,804 civilian lives in 2018 – including 927 children, another tragic record for the year – according to data carefully collected by the UN. The number represents an increase of 11 per cent compared to 2017.
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