Achieving Global Goals hinges on 'determined pursuit' of sustainable transport – UN expert report
Oct 29, 2016, at 02:03 pm
New York, Oct 29 (Just Earth News): Greater investment in greener, more efficient and sustainable transport can save trillions of dollars and help achieve the global sustainability goals, according to a United Nations report launched on Friday that provides 10 recommendations on how resources can be redirected to the transport sector.
Withdrawal from International Criminal Court could send 'wrong message' – UN chief
Oct 29, 2016, at 02:01 pm
New York, Oct 29 (Just Earth News): Expressing regret over the intention of three African countries to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for strengthening the Court from within its processes.
Israel is denying Palestine’s right to development, says UN human rights expert
Oct 29, 2016, at 02:00 pm
New York, Oct 29 (Just Earth News): The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Michael Lynk, has declared that Israel is denying Palestine’s right to development by creating rampant poverty, “epic†unemployment, and economic stagnation.
Stronger regional partnerships can help UN promote global stability, Ban tells Security Council
Oct 29, 2016, at 01:59 pm
New York, Oct 29 (Just Earth News): Highlighting the complex challenges confronting global peace and security, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday emphasized the urgent need for a collective response by the international community that draws on regional and global partnerships.
Syria: UN chief condemns reported school attack in western Aleppo
Oct 29, 2016, at 01:58 pm
New York, Oct 29 (Just Earth News): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the reported attack on Friday on a school in the western part of Syria's Aleppo city that killed a number of children.
Oct 29, 2016, at 01:57 pm
New York, Oct 29 (Just Earth News): Warning that the situation in Yemen is growing more dire every day, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the lead United Nations-affiliated agency on migration issues, launched on Friday a regional appeal for nearly $150 million to help provide desperately needed assistance to the country’s people trapped amid the escalating conflict.
News about the Nobel Prize left me speechless: Dylan
Oct 29, 2016, at 01:40 pm
London, Oct 29 (IBNS): Breaking his silence American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan has said the news that he was to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature left him 'speechless'.
UN agricultural agency launches programme to eradicate deadly goat disease
Oct 29, 2016, at 05:07 am
New York, Oct 28 (Just Earth News): The United Nations agricultural agency on Friday launched the first phase of a new, 15-year global programme to eradicate a highly contagious viral animal disease affecting more than 70 countries in Africa, Middle East and Asia, which account for about 80 per cent of the world’s sheep and goats and where millions of families depend heavily on these animals for nutrition and livelihoods.
Landmark accord agreed on world's largest marine sanctuary for Antarctica's Ross Sea – UN
Oct 29, 2016, at 05:06 am
New York, Oct 28 (Just Earth News): The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) welcomed a unanimous decision on Friday from the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) to create the world's largest protected area – land or marine – in the Antarctic's Ross Sea.
UN expert panel cites crimes against humanity committed by Eritrean authorities dating back 25 years
Oct 29, 2016, at 05:05 am
New York, Oct 28 (Just Earth News): Eritrean officials have committed crimes against humanity since 1991, including enslavement, imprisonment, enforced disappearances, torture, other inhumane acts, persecution, rape and murder, a member of the former United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the country reported to UN Member States.
Oct 29, 2016, at 05:04 am
New York, Oct 28 (Just Earth News): The adoption of what has been dubbed the “New York Declaration†should make a difference in the lives of refugees and migrants, an outgoing UN Special Adviser has underscored.
Nearly 8,000 families abducted by ISIL from Mosul vicinity – UN rights office
Oct 29, 2016, at 05:03 am
New York, Oct 28 (Just Earth News): Credible reports suggest that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh) has been forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes in sub-districts around Mosul, including nearly 8,000 families the group abducted, since the operations to restore Iraqi Government control over Mosul began on 17 October, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Friday.
Oct 28, 2016, at 01:49 pm
New York, Oct 28 (Just Earth News): Tackling human trafficking is not a simple or trivial pursuit, the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said on Thursday, urging States to implement all provisions of the so-called ‘Palermo protocol,’ the nearly universal UN treaty that contains a ‘blueprint’ for successfully preventing and supressing the scourge while punishing perpetrators.
‘We are not giving up,’ despite evacuation failure – UN envoys on Syria
Oct 28, 2016, at 01:48 pm
New York, Oct 28 (Just Earth News): Expressing their disappointment that the sick and wounded were not evacuated from Syria’s war-torn eastern Aleppo, the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria and his Senior Advisor on Thursday vowed to press on with their efforts to extract those with medical emergencies and get assistance to those with desperate needs inside the city.
Persons with disabilities must benefit from – and contribute to – development, says UN expert
Oct 28, 2016, at 01:47 pm
New York, Oct 28 (Just Earth News): Persons with disabilities should have a leading say on the policies that impact them, a United Nations human rights expert told the General Assembly, while stressing the important role that member states play to ensure those disabled benefit from and contribute to development.
As fires burn through Calais ‘Jungle,’ UNICEF urges protection of children remaining in the camp
Oct 28, 2016, at 01:46 pm
New York, Oct 28 (Just Earth News): “Deeply troubled†that last night, while fires burned in parts of the Calais refugee and migrant camp that has become known as “the Jungle†burned, many children were forced to sleep out in the cold, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday underscored that authorities on the ground must guarantee their protection.
UN health strategy making access to new, revolutionary hepatitis C treatment possible
Oct 28, 2016, at 01:45 pm
New York, Oct 28 (Just Earth News): According to the United Nations heath agency, since the approval of new medicines for hepatitis C – offering a cure rate of over 95 per cent, fewer side effects and complete cure within three months – about two years back, more than one million patients in low- and middle-income countries have been treated.
Destruction of cultural heritage is an attack on people and their fundamental rights – UN expert
Oct 28, 2016, at 01:44 pm
New York, Oct 28 (Just Earth News): When cultural heritage is under attack, it is also the people and their fundamental human rights that are under attack, a United Nations expert warned the UN General Assembly, issuing an urgent call to step up international action against the destruction of heritage such as monuments, historic sites and sacred places.
ISIL’s ‘scorched earth policy’ creating environmental and health havoc in Mosul, warns UN
Oct 28, 2016, at 01:43 pm
New York, Oct 28 (Just Earth News): Environmental pollution is adding “complexity and danger†to the humanitarian crisis sparked by the military offensive in Mosul, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Thursday, warning that fumes from burning stockpiles of sulphur dioxide, and oil wells that have been set ablaze, have led to further suffering for civilians in northern Iraq.
‘It’s your story – don’t lose it,’ UNESCO says marking World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
Oct 28, 2016, at 04:26 am
New York, Oct 27 (Just Earth News): Archives are humanity’s collective memory bank, maintained in many public and private organizations, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization said on Thursday, urging all public and private entities as well as relevant professionals to take urgent action to safeguard audiovisual works and records ‘as an integral part of our shared heritage.â€
Severe hunger in southern Madagascar likely persist into 2017 due to drought-hit crops, UN warns
Oct 28, 2016, at 04:24 am
New York, Oct 27 (Just Earth News): The impact of severe El Niño-induced drought on crop production in southern Madagascar, where nearly 850,000 people are acutely food insecure, is likely to persist into 2017 and requires an intensified humanitarian response, the United Nations agriculture agency said on Thursday.
Syria: Latest school attack in Idlib 'an outrage' and 'one more scar on future' – UNICEF chief
Oct 28, 2016, at 04:15 am
New York, Oct 27 (Just Earth News): The head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday that the latest school attack in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib may be “the deadliest†one since the war begin more than five years ago, and is a war crime if deliberate.
Japan: Prince Mikasa dies of heart failure, aged 100
Oct 27, 2016, at 08:20 pm
Tokyo, Oct 27 (IBNS): Prince Mikasa of Japan, the uncle of Emperor Akihito, died on Thursday of heart failure, reports said.
Oct 27, 2016, at 02:32 pm
Rome, Oct 27 (IBNS): Two earthquakes hit central Italy on Wednesday, triggering panic in the nation.
‘Stop draining the blood of Syrians’ – UN relief chief’s appeal to the Security Council
Oct 27, 2016, at 01:47 pm
New York, Oct 27 (Just Earth News): In another impassioned plea to the United Nations Security Council urging action to stop the bloodshed in war-ravaged Syria, the top UN humanitarian official stressed that since his last briefing to the body (on 29 September), 400 more Syrians had been killed and close to 2,000 injured in eastern Aleppo.
New solutions needed to tackle mounting sovereign debt crisis – UN trade and development agency
Oct 27, 2016, at 01:44 pm
New York, Oct 27 (Just Earth News): Prior to a meeting on Wednesday at the United Nations on sovereign debt restructuring, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) announced that in order to deal with sovereign debt crises – which are creating a growing threat to economic stability in many developing countries – the world is in need of new ways to tackle the problem.
Statistical capabilities need major upgrade to achieve 2030 Agenda – UN agriculture chief
Oct 27, 2016, at 01:43 pm
New York, Oct 27 (Just Earth News): “Tremendous†efforts and increased investments are expected from countries and international organizations in order to improve national statistical capacities in achieving the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Zero Hunger target, José Graziano da Silva, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said on Wednesday in Rome.
US abstains for first time in annual UN vote on ending embargo against Cuba
Oct 27, 2016, at 01:42 pm
New York, Oct 27 (Just Earth News): In a near unanimous action, the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution underlining the need to end to the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba, while also welcoming progress in the relations between the two countries.
Oct 27, 2016, at 01:41 pm
New York, Oct 27 (Just Earth News): United Nations human rights expert Ikponwosa Ero called upon government representatives gathered in New York for the General Assembly to take swift action to end a growing problem of violence and severe discrimination against people with albinism.
‘Nothing is more powerful than the human spirit,’ Ban tells memorial honouring fallen UN staff
Oct 27, 2016, at 01:40 pm
New York, Oct 27 (Just Earth News): Joined by staff and families of the women and men of the United Nations who lost their lives between 1 January 2015 and 30 June 2016, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a memorial service at UN Headquarters on Wednesday that “those who destroy may think bombs and bullets are the most powerful force […] but nothing is more powerful than the human spirit.â€