Mar 01, 2017, at 06:06 am
New York, Mar 1 (Just Earth News): A senior United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official is calling the routes from sub-Saharan Africa into Libya and across the sea to Europe one of the “world’s deadliest and most dangerous for children and women,†as the agency reported that nearly half of the women and children interviewed after making the voyage were raped.
Yemen: UN verifies nearly 1,500 boys recruited for use in armed conflict
Mar 01, 2017, at 06:05 am
New York, Mar 1 (Just Earth News): The United Nations human rights office on Tuesday urged all warring parties in Yemen to immediately release child soldiers, noting that the UN has verified the recruitment of 1,476 children, all boys, between 26 March 2015 and 31 January 2017.
South Sudan: UN official calls for unfettered relief access to avert further catastrophe
Mar 01, 2017, at 06:04 am
New York, Mar 1 (Just Earth News): With hundreds of thousands in need of assistance in famine-struck parts of South Sudan and rising insecurity hampering relief work, a senior United Nations relief official in the country has called on all parties to ensure that humanitarians have immediate, safe and unhindered access across the nation.
Trump meets CEOs of U.S. health insurance companies
Feb 28, 2017, at 06:42 pm
Washington, Feb 28 (IBNS): US President Donald Trump has met CEOs of U.S. health insurance companies.
In Yemen, UN aid chief rallies support for relief efforts to prevent famine
Feb 28, 2017, at 01:19 pm
New York, Feb 28 (Just Earth News): The parties to the conflict in Yemen need to continue providing humanitarian access, and the international community needs to step up its funding for life-saving operations, the United Nations relief aid chief said on Monday during his visit to the port city of Aden.
Refugees and migrants taking 'enormous risks' to reach Europe – UN agency
Feb 28, 2017, at 01:19 pm
New York, Feb 28 (Just Earth News): Increased border restrictions and lack of accessible legal ways to reach Europe have caused refugees and migrants to take more “diversified and dangerous journeys,†such as relying on people-smugglers or using flimsy boats to cross rough seas, a new report by the United Nations refugee agency has revealed.
Germany: UN rights panel highlights racial profiling against people of African descent
Feb 28, 2017, at 01:18 pm
New York, Feb 28 (Just Earth News): People of African descent in Germany suffer racial discrimination, Afrophobia and racial profiling in their daily lives, but their situation remains largely invisible to the wider society, a United Nations expert panel said on Monday at the end of its first official visit to the country.
Families report skyrocketing food prices, dire conditions in western Mosul – UN agency
Feb 28, 2017, at 01:17 pm
New York, Feb 28 (Just Earth News): The United Nations food relief agency on Monday said it is extremely concerned about the humanitarian situation facing more than 750,000 people living in dire conditions in the western sections of Iraq's Mosul city, where fighting is taking place between the Government forces and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh) terrorists.
Kosovo: Talks between Belgrade and Pristina 'essential' to peace, UN envoy tells Security Council
Feb 28, 2017, at 01:16 pm
New York, Feb 28 (Just Earth News): There is no alternative to dialogue, the head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Kosovo on Monday told the Security Council, citing the importance of high-level talks between Belgrade and Pristina, and calling for continued international engagement to maintain peace and stability in Kosovo and the wider Balkans region.
UN health agency lists antibiotic-resistant bacteria which pose human threat
Feb 28, 2017, at 01:15 pm
New York, Feb 28 (Just Earth News): The United Nations health agency on Monday published its first-ever catalogue of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.
Drought threatens 1.5 million Somalis; UN health agency scales up response
Feb 28, 2017, at 01:15 pm
New York, Feb 28 (Just Earth News): Less than half of the people in Somalia have access to basic health services, the United Nations health agency on Monday said, announcing that it is scaling up its response in the country amid a severe drought and worsening food crisis.
In Geneva, UN urges upholding human rights amid rising populism and extremism
Feb 28, 2017, at 04:53 am
New York, Feb 27 (Just Earth News): Disregard for human rights is a “disease,†United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday told the opening session of the UN Human Rights Council, urging Member States to uphold the rights of all people in the face of rising populism and extremism.
Feb 27, 2017, at 04:30 am
New York, Feb 26 (Just Earth News): Deeply concerned about increased tensions in the vicinity of Guerguerat in the buffer strip in southern Western Sahara between the Moroccan berm and the Mauritanian border, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday called on Morocco and Frente Polisario to “take all necessary steps†to avoid escalation.
Feb 27, 2017, at 04:28 am
New York, Feb 26 (Just Earth News): The United Nations Security Council has strongly condemned the recent spate of violence in the south-central Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), calling on the Government to “immediately dispatch a credible and impartial investigation.â€
Feb 25, 2017, at 10:29 pm
Beijing, Feb 25 (IBNS): A hotel fire in China's Jiangxi Province killed at least 10 people on Saturday, media reports said.
Huge fire in China's luxury hotel, several feared trapped
Feb 25, 2017, at 05:34 pm
Beijing, Feb 25 (IBNS) : Several people were feared trapped as a major fire broke out in a multi-storey luxury hotel in east China’s Jiangxi Province on Saturday, state-run news agency Xinhua said.
Syria: At least 60 people killed by suicide bombers
Feb 25, 2017, at 05:29 pm
Al Bab, Feb 25 (IBNS): At least 60 people, including civilians and soldiers, were killed in two separate incidents following the detonation of car bombs by suicide bombers near Al Bab area of Syria, reports said.
UNESCO meeting lays groundwork for reviving, protecting Iraq’s cultural heritage
Feb 25, 2017, at 11:43 am
New York, Feb 25 (Just Earth News): As details on the destruction of and damage to Iraq’s rich and diverse cultural heritage emerge, the United Nations cultural agency has appealed to the international community to help protect and revive the country’s archaeological, religious and cultural sites for future generations.
Feb 25, 2017, at 11:42 am
New York, Feb 25 (Just Earth News): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has asked Member States to inform him by 6 March if they intend to make voluntary financial contributions to the implementation of the new UN plan to counter cholera in Haiti, his spokesman said on Friday.
UN envoy and Church leaders in DR Congo condemn attacks against Catholic facilities
Feb 25, 2017, at 11:41 am
New York, Feb 25 (Just Earth News): The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the National Episcopal Conference of Congo, known as CENCO have called for an immediate end to the spate of violent attacks against Catholic facilities in several parts of the country.
Donors pledge $670 million at UN-backed conference to support aid operations in Lake Chad region
Feb 25, 2017, at 11:40 am
New York, Feb 25 (Just Earth News):Giving voice to people affected by conflict and crises in Africa’s Lake Chad Basin, a global United Nations-supported humanitarian conference in Oslo on Friday generated more than $670 million in pledges that will help sustain critical relief operations over the next two years and beyond across four counties where millions are in need of aid.
UN reports more than 300 migrant deaths on Mediterranean crossing in first two months of 2017
Feb 25, 2017, at 11:39 am
New York, Feb 25 (Just Earth News): An estimated 366 migrants died at sea during their Mediterranean journey to Europe in the first 53 days of 2017, down from 425 of the comparable period of last year, the United Nations migration agency said on Friday.
At global UN consultation, health leaders underline need for action on migrant health
Feb 25, 2017, at 05:01 am
New York, Feb 24 (Just Earth News): Against the backdrop of health systems struggling to adapt to the growing needs of migrants around the world, health leaders from over forty countries, meeting at a United Nations consultation underscored the call for international collaboration to improve the health and well-being of migrants and their families.
UN rights experts urge action to curb 'invisible threat' of toxic air
Feb 25, 2017, at 05:00 am
New York, Feb 24 (Just Earth News): United Nations human rights experts are calling for strong, urgent action by States to ensure that people around the world can enjoy the human right to live in environments free from contamination.
Syria suicide attack: 42 killed
Feb 24, 2017, at 10:24 pm
Al-Bab, Feb 24 (IBNS): At least 42 people were killed in suicide attack carried out by militant group IS in Swesan area near al-Bab city of Syria, a monitor group reported.
Perpetrators of recent terrorist attack in Iraq must be held accountable – UN Security Council
Feb 24, 2017, at 02:17 pm
New York, Feb 24 (Just Earth News): Condemning, in the strongest terms, the terrorist attack on 16 February in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, the United Nations Security Council underlined the need to bring the perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of such reprehensible acts of terrorism to justice.
Feb 24, 2017, at 02:15 pm
New York, Feb 24 (Just Earth News): Amid renewed violence that has led to “successive gross violations†of international humanitarian law in two north-eastern provinces of the Central African Republic (CAR), the most senior United Nations relief official in the country has called for free and unhindered access to civilians impacted by the clashes between rival armed groups.
'We need to start now’ on road to peace, UN envoy says as Syria negotiations open in Geneva
Feb 24, 2017, at 02:14 pm
New York, Feb 24 (Just Earth News): Welcoming the representatives of the Syrian Government and its opposition to the United Nations-facilitated negotiations that opened on Thursday in Geneva, Staffan de Mistura reiterated the need to work together for a political solution.
Feb 24, 2017, at 02:10 pm
New York, Feb 24 (Just Earth News): Ahead of a major donors conference in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, seeking to generate global action to tackle the complex crisis in Africa’s Lake Chad Basin, the top United Nations relief official highlighted that investing in support for the region will in turn help strengthen broader security around the world for all to benefit.
UN health agency reports depression now ‘leading cause of disability worldwide’
Feb 24, 2017, at 02:09 pm
New York, Feb 24 (Just Earth News): Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, the United Nations health agency on Thursday reported, estimating that it affects more than 300 million people worldwide – the majority of them women, young people and the elderly.