Myanmar: UN urges aid access, warns of rights violations after 'lockdown' in northern Rakhine state
Nov 19, 2016, at 01:58 pm
New York, Nov 19 (Just Earth News): Deeply concerned about the safety and wellbeing of civilians in the northern part of Rakhine state in Myanmar, United Nations entities on Friday urged the country's authorities to take immediate actions to address humanitarian and human rights situations.
1,000 more migrant deaths in Mediterranean compared to same period last year
Nov 19, 2016, at 01:41 am
New York, Nov 18 (IBNS): IOM reports that an estimated 350 migrants are missing, presumed dead after at least six incidents in the Mediterranean in the past three days.
Mozambique: Fuel truck explosion kills 73
Nov 18, 2016, at 02:52 pm
Maputo, Nov 18 (IBNS): A fuel truck explosion in Mozambique left at least 73 people dead, media reports said on Friday.
South Sudan continues to face persistent challenges to peace and stability, Security Council told
Nov 18, 2016, at 02:17 pm
New York, Nov 18 (Just Earth News): Briefing the United Nations Security Council for the last time, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan called on the 15-member body to continue to accord priority to the country and to consider the future of its people in taking any decisions.
Nov 18, 2016, at 02:12 pm
New York, Nov 18 (Just Earth News): At the United Nations Climate Conference (COP 22) under way in Marrakech, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) participated in the launch of a ground breaking map of restoration opportunities to combat climate change in Africa, an area being called the ‘Great Green Wall.’
UN deputy chief urges donors to support peace consolidation in Central African Republic
Nov 18, 2016, at 02:10 pm
New York, Nov 18 (Just Earth News): In Brussels, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson on Thursday urged an international conference for the Central African Republic (CAR) to show solidarity and pledge the necessary financial support to the Government-identified priorities and reforms needed for the African country’s rehabilitation and stabilization.
Nov 18, 2016, at 02:09 pm
New York, Nov 18 (Just Earth News): Rallying stakeholders gathered in Marrakech, Morocco, for the United Nations Climate Conference, known as ‘COP 22,’ Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged everyone – “from the local to the global†– including the private sector, cities and civil society, to get involved in the implementation of the Paris Agreement.
Nov 18, 2016, at 02:08 pm
New York, Nov 18 (Just Earth News): Citing more than 20 years of collaboration between the United Nations and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a senior UN political official on Thursday urged greater efforts by the two entities to draw on each other’s strengths and devise joint strategies to prevent and resolve conflicts.
Colombia: UN-led mechanism investigating alleged ceasefire violation
Nov 18, 2016, at 02:04 pm
New York, Nov 18 (Just Earth News): The tripartite Mechanism coordinated by the United Nations and comprising the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) has started investigations into a 15 November incident in the country’s Santa Rosa municipality that resulted in the deaths of two FARC-EP members.
At governing body, UN atomic agency chief highlights agency’s priorities for 2017
Nov 18, 2016, at 02:00 pm
New York, Nov 18 (Just Earth News): Nuclear safety and security, health and nutrition, and food and agriculture will be the main technical programmes for the United Nations atomic agency next year, its head told the agency’s governing body.
Nov 18, 2016, at 01:59 pm
New York, Nov 18 (Just Earth News): Having secured the funds for the initial phase of the deployment of the world’s first malaria vaccine, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday it will be rolled out in sub-Saharan Africa and immunization campaigns will begin in 2018.
New UN initiative aims to save lives and cut climate change by protecting peatlands
Nov 18, 2016, at 01:58 pm
New York, Nov 18 (Just Earth News): A new global initiative was launched on Thursday at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 22) under way in Marrakech, aims to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and save thousands of live by protecting peatlands – the largest terrestrial organic soil carbon stock.
DR Congo: Ban takes note of appointment of new Prime Minister
Nov 18, 2016, at 01:57 pm
New York, Nov 18 (Just Earth News): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki moon has taken note of the appointment on Thursday of Samy Badibanga as Prime Minister ahead of the formation of a transitional government of national unity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in line with the political agreement of 18 October.
Nigeria: UN expert seeks urgent answers on ‘brutal’ eviction of 30,000 people in Lagos
Nov 18, 2016, at 05:08 am
New York, Nov 17 (Just Earth News): A United Nations human rights expert has appealed to the Government of Nigeria for an urgent explanation of the forced eviction of 30,000 people in Lagos state in the last week.
UN health agency denounces attacks on health facilities in Syria
Nov 18, 2016, at 04:16 am
New York, Nov 17 (Just Earth News): The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday condemned attacks on five Syrian hospitals – including two trauma centres and an emergency obstetric centre – as well as a mobile medical clinic, and demanded that all parties to the five-year conflict respect the neutrality of health workers, health facilities and medical supplies.
One month into Mosul battle, UN and partners ‘profoundly concerned’ for civilian safety
Nov 18, 2016, at 04:15 am
New York, Nov 17 (Just Earth News): At the one-month mark of Iraqi military operations to oust terrorists from Mosul, the United Nations and its partners on Thursday said tens of thousands of families in newly retaken areas urgently requiring life-saving assistance and warned that the humanitarian community in Iraq faces a “massive scope†of need.
Philosophy is an art of living together,' says UNESCO on World Philosophy Day
Nov 18, 2016, at 04:11 am
New York, Nov 17 (Just Earth News): Marking World Philosophy Day, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is encouraging people of the world to share their philosophical heritages and “dare to open spaces for free, open and tolerant thinking.â€
Top UN peacekeeping officials hail success of community violence reduction programmes
Nov 17, 2016, at 12:32 pm
New York, Nov 17 (Just Earth News): Community violence reduction (CVR) programmes are not well-known, but are proving to be an effective peacekeeping tool, senior United Nations officials said today during an event to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the launch of CVR in Haiti.
Kosovo situation yielding ‘fewer results than hoped’ in 2016, UN envoy tells Security Council
Nov 17, 2016, at 12:31 pm
New York, Nov 17 (Just Earth News): Many of the political expectations with which Kosovo began the year yielded fewer results than hoped, the head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission there said on Wednesday, expressing hope that next year will see clear progress on political dialogue accompanied by necessary progress at community level.
Ban welcomes Canada’s announcement of donation to UN Palestine refugee agency
Nov 17, 2016, at 12:30 pm
New York, Nov 17 (Just Earth News): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday welcomed Canada’s announcement that it was resuming support to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) by donating CDN $25 million for the agency’s essential health, education, relief and social services and humanitarian programmes that benefit 5.3 million Palestine refugees.
Global humanitarian response affected by lack of funding – senior UN relief official
Nov 17, 2016, at 12:27 pm
New York, Nov 17 (Just Earth News): Returning from recent visits to Haiti, Sudan and South Sudan, a senior United Nations humanitarian official said that while low funding for aid operations around the world challenge prompt and needed relief, the deteriorating humanitarian situation in conflict-riven South Sudan is the most “alarming.â€
Welcoming Kenya’s decision on Dadaab camp, UN urges flexibility on time frames for Somali refugees
Nov 17, 2016, at 12:25 pm
New York, Nov 17 (Just Earth News): The Office of the United Nations High Commissions on Refugees (UNHCR) welcomed on Wednesday a statement on Wednesday from the Government of Kenya in which it reiterated its continued search for solutions for refugees at the Dadaab camp, where it has been hosting and protecting refugees from Somalia for many years.
MARRAKECH: UN chief urges rapid scale-up in funding to address climate change
Nov 17, 2016, at 12:23 pm
New York, Nov 17 (Just Earth News): As the United Nations Climate Conference, known as COP 22, continued its work on Wednesday in Marrakech, Morocco, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged greater efforts to mobilize funding to address climate change, especially to support developing countries.
Do not betray the victims; stand by the Rome Statute and the ICC – UN human rights chief
Nov 17, 2016, at 12:22 pm
New York, Nov 17 (Just Earth News): In the wake of three States withdrawing from the International Criminal Court, the top United Nations human rights official has underlined that there is no substitute for the Court and called on the international community to “place [their] collective shoulder behind [the] institution.â€
Central African Republic: Justice and reconciliation key to lasting peace, UN expert says
Nov 17, 2016, at 12:21 pm
New York, Nov 17 (Just Earth News): The justice system in the Central African Republic (CAR) must be urgently strengthened if the country is to achieve lasting peace, a United Nations human rights expert has said, ahead of a major donors’ conference in Brussels, Belgium, tomorrow, which aims to raise funds in support of the country’s national peace-building plan.
MARRAKECH: Middle East and North Africa region taking action to combat climate change
Nov 17, 2016, at 12:20 pm
New York, Nov 17 (Just Earth News): Aware of their vulnerabilities to the impacts of climate change, countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have begun taking action to confront the phenomenon and on Wednesday, several highlighted their initiatives at the United Nations Climate Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, known as COP 22.
Tolerance is a commitment 'to seek in our diversity, the bonds that unite humanity' – UN
Nov 17, 2016, at 03:55 am
New York, Nov 16 (Just Earth News): Underscoring the importance of tolerance, particularly in on Wednesday's diverse world, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the head of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have called for seeing the world through the prism of “we the peoples†and to collectively build societies that are more inclusive, more peaceful and more prosperous.
IOM Iraq: Displacement tops 56,000 as Mosul military operations continue
Nov 16, 2016, at 03:24 pm
London, Nov 16 (IBNS): The total number of individuals currently displaced in the Mosul emergency now tops 56,400 according to data released on Tuesday by IOM Iraq’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Emergency Tracking.
INTERVIEW: What extreme weather and global temperature rise means for humanity - WMO Chief
Nov 16, 2016, at 09:36 am
New York, Nov 16 (Just Earth News): “In a new report analyzing the global climate between 2011-2016, the World Meteorological Organization – the United Nations system’s weather agency – found an increasingly visible human footprint on extreme weather and climate events with dangerous and costly impacts.
Ban welcomes resolution of border dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Gabon
Nov 16, 2016, at 09:32 am
New York, Nov 16 (Just Earth News): Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday hosted on Tuesday a signing ceremony on the margins of the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (popularly known as COP-22) in Morocco’s capital Marrakech.