On International Day, UN spotlights threatened coastal mangrove ecosystems
Jul 27, 2017, at 10:15 am
New York, July 27(Just Earth News): Coastal mangroves are among the most imperiled ecosystems on earth, with current estimates indicating that up to 67 per cent have been lost to date – according to the United Nations science wing.
DR Congo: UN rights chief names international investigators in Kasai abuses
Jul 27, 2017, at 10:14 am
New York, July 27(Just Earth News): The United Nations human rights chief on Wednesday named three international experts to investigate reports of killings, mutilations, rapes and other abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) restive Kasai provinces.
UN agency develops new guidelines to help countries better monitor forest resources
Jul 27, 2017, at 10:12 am
New York, July 27(Just Earth News): The United Nations agriculture agency has created new guidelines to help countries develop a strong mechanism to monitor national forest resources.
Malnutrition and cholera 'a vicious combination' in war-torn Yemen – UN agency chiefs
Jul 27, 2017, at 05:03 am
New York, July 26(Just Earth News): In Yemen, the world's worst cholera outbreak is unfolding amid the world's largest humanitarian crisis, crippling health, water and sanitation facilities in the country, and creating ideal conditions for diseases to spread, according to the heads of three United Nations agencies.
UN refugee agency seeks $9.5 million to assist Nigerian returnees from Cameroon
Jul 27, 2017, at 05:02 am
New York, July 26(Just Earth News): The UN refugee agency is seeking an additional $9.5 million to scale up its activities in northeast Nigeria, as a result of an unexpected surge in self-organized returns of Nigerian refugees mainly from Cameroon since the beginning of the year.
Amid rising tensions in Jerusalem, UN envoy warns of 'grave risk' of escalation in Middle East
Jul 26, 2017, at 12:48 pm
New York, July 26(Just Earth News): The United Nations envoy on Middle East peace has warned that developments over the past 11 days at holy sites in the Old City in Jerusalem have demonstrated the “grave risk†that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could become a religious conflict that could ultimately engulf the rest of the region.
Peace is the 'bedrock' for women's development and human rights UN deputy chief says in DR Congo
Jul 26, 2017, at 12:47 pm
New York, July 26(Just Earth News): The importance of reversing the tragedies of violence, particularly against women and children, and ensuring that women's and girl's voices are heard in all aspects of society are at the core of the second leg of a high-level United Nations-African Union (AU) mission to Africa, which on Tuesday visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Majority of children fleeing to Europe just want to get away, UNICEF reports
Jul 26, 2017, at 04:54 am
New York, July 25(Just Earth News): Facing violence and trauma in Libya and other countries, thousands of children decided to flee by themselves, seeking to get away but not necessarily aiming for Europe, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesdayreported.
UN chief condemns suicide attacks on camps in northeastern Nigeria
Jul 26, 2017, at 04:51 am
New York, July 25(Just Earth News): Strongly condemning yesterday's suicide attacks on the two camps for internally displaced persons in northeastern Nigeria, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called for the perpetrators of this “heinous†act to be swiftly brought to justice.
Malala visits Birmingham to spread message of ‘education for all’
Jul 26, 2017, at 01:38 am
London, July 25 (IBNS): Noble prize winner Malala Yousafzai visited the University of Birmingham and appealed to women physicists from around the globe to spread the message of ‘education for all’.
MS Paint is here to stay, confirms Microsoft
Jul 26, 2017, at 01:00 am
Washington, July 25 (IBNS): Giving relief to several people across the globe, IT major Microsoft on Tuesday announced that its MS Paint software will stay.
Israel begins removing metal detectors from Temple Mount
Jul 25, 2017, at 11:22 pm
Jerusalem, July 25 (IBNS) Israel has started removing the metal detectors installed at the entrance of the Al-Aqsa mosque in Temple Mount in Jerusalem which had triggered bloodshed and anger in the Arab world but the new measures of CCTV cameras were still rejected by the Palestinians.
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Latest round of UN-led global consultations spotlights migrants’ contributions to development
Jul 25, 2017, at 09:58 pm
New York, July 25 (Just Earth News): Although the net benefits of migration far outweigh its costs, the public perception is often the opposite, a senior United Nations official pointed out on Monday, as the latest round of consultations on a global compact for migration began in New York.
Jul 25, 2017, at 09:55 pm
New York, July 25 (Just Earth News): Four years on, Australia's offshore processing has left some 2,000 people languishing in unacceptable circumstances – causing physical and psychological harm, according to the United Nations refugee agency, which on Monday called for an immediate end to the practice.
UN chief condemns killing of peacekeeper in Central African Republic
Jul 25, 2017, at 09:54 pm
New York, July 25 (Just Earth News): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned the killing of a UN peacekeeper on Sunday in the Central African Republic, urging the country's authorities to investigate this incident and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Jul 25, 2017, at 09:51 pm
New York, July 25 (Just Earth News): The Security Council on Monday welcomed recent positive political developments in some West African countries, but expressed concern over the threat of terrorism in the region.
Back from visit to Myanmar, independent UN rights expert says situation 'worsening'
Jul 25, 2017, at 09:46 pm
New York, July 25 (Just Earth News): While no one expects an overnight transition to democracy in Myanmar, there has to be real progress on human rights, an independent United Nations expert on Monday said, highlighting reported killings, tortures, and an “ongoing humanitarian crisis†for the Rohingya people and other minorities.
Ahead of October elections, Security Council urges Liberia to plan for safe, credible polls
Jul 25, 2017, at 09:40 pm
New York, July 25 (Just Earth News): With Liberian officials responsible for security in the country, the United Nations Security Council on Monday encouraged the Government to put in place an election security plan for the October polls.
Switzerland: Five injured in chainsaw attack
Jul 25, 2017, at 12:51 am
Geneva, July 24 (IBNS): At least five people were injured in a chainsaw attack at Schaffhausen town of Switzerland on Monday, media reports said.
Israeli stabbed in embassy in Jordan, attacker and second man shot dead
Jul 24, 2017, at 05:53 pm
Amman, Jul 24 (IBNS) : A Jordanian man stabbed an Israeli security officer at the Israeli embassy in Amman on Sunday before he was shot dead, media reports said.
Amid rising violence in Jerusalem, UN and diplomatic partners urge maximum restraint on all sides
Jul 24, 2017, at 11:28 am
New York, July 24(Just Earth News): Expressing deep concern about the escalating tensions and violent clashes taking place in and around the Old City of Jerusalem, the United Nations and its diplomatic partners in the Middle East peace process have called on all to demonstrate maximum restraint and work towards de-escalating the situation.
'The time to act is now;' end children's suffering in Iraq and across the Middle East – UNICEF
Jul 23, 2017, at 01:07 pm
New York, July 23(Just Earth News): Calling for “immediate care and protection†for children caught up in violence in Iraq's war torn Mosul and other Middle East conflicts, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today warned that the lives and futures of some 27 million across the region and parts of Africa are at risk.
Guterres 'strongly condemns' stabbing attack that left three Israelis dead in West Bank
Jul 23, 2017, at 05:40 am
New York, July 23(Just Earth News): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned yesterday evening's stabbing attack by a Palestinian perpetrator, which resulted in the death of three members of an Israeli family in the Halamish settlement in the occupied West Bank.
UN chief concerned about unfolding violence in Jerusalem's Old City
Jul 22, 2017, at 11:06 am
New York, July 22(Just Earth News): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday expressed concern about the situation in the Old City of Jerusalem, which has been the scene of escalating violence in recent days.
In DR Congo, UN aid chief says world must 'not let down' millions of people in need
Jul 22, 2017, at 11:05 am
New York, July 22(Just Earth News): Wrapping up a four-day mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations humanitarian chief on Friday urged the world “not to forget the DRC,†and called for scaled-up relief funding to help millions of people suffering from violence, diseases, and malnutrition.
Rainy season worsens cholera crisis in Yemen; UN agencies deliver clean water, food
Jul 22, 2017, at 11:04 am
New York, July 22(Just Earth News): Yemen is facing the world's largest cholera outbreak, the United Nations health agency on Friday warned, with 5,000 Yemenis falling sick every day – the majority of them children and the elderly.
INTERVIEW: Education, women's empowerment 'top priorities' for UN in India, says senior official
Jul 22, 2017, at 11:04 am
New York, July 22(Just Earth News): To meet the challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), India should prioritize women's empowerment and education, the United Nation's development chief in the country said.
UN report reveals shocking abuse African migrant women face on their journey to Europe
Jul 22, 2017, at 04:46 am
New York, July 21(Just Earth News): The United Nations migration agency on Friday said that perhaps 80 per cent of Nigerian migrant women and girls arriving on Europe's shores in Italy could potentially be sex trafficking victims, spotlighting the horrific levels of abuse and violence migrants face along their arduous journeys for a better future.
Three displaced families killed in airstrike in south-west Yemen – UN rights wing
Jul 22, 2017, at 04:44 am
New York, July 21(Just Earth News): Three displaced families have been killed when their makeshift shelter was hit in an airstrike in Yemen's Taiz governorate earlier this week, the United Nations human rights wing said.
UN health agency urges early action to stave off threat of HIV drug resistance
Jul 22, 2017, at 04:42 am
New York, July 21(Just Earth News): The United Nations health agency has warned that the spread of an HIV strain resistant to some of the most widely used medicines could undermine global progress in treating and preventing HIV infection if early and effective action is not taken.