UN announces inaugural class of 17 youth leaders to support Global Goals
Sep 20, 2016, at 01:11 pm
New York, Sept 20 (Just Earth News): The United Nations envoy on youth on Monday unveiled the inaugural class of 17 youth leaders who have been recognized for their leadership and contribution to the achievement of the 17 Global Goals, also known as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change by 2030.
At Forum, Ban stresses key role of business in securing way forward on Global Goals
Sep 20, 2016, at 01:09 pm
New York, Sept 20 (Just Earth News): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday underscored the crucial role businesses play in the realization of Global Goals, or Sustainable Development Goals, adopted a year ago by 193 countries.
DR Congo: Ban condemns deadly clashes between protestors and security forces in capital
Sep 20, 2016, at 01:08 pm
New York, Sept 20 (Just Earth News): United Nations Secretary-General on Monday expressed deep concern about the violent clashes between protestors and security forces in Kinshasa, and several other locations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Sustainable livelihoods bring not only food security but dignity, for refugees – UN chief
Sep 20, 2016, at 01:07 pm
New York, Sept 20 (Just Earth News): Underscoring that millions of refugees around the world face food insecurity and the risk of malnutrition, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Monday for stronger response to ensure that refugees are able to meet their food and nutrition needs.
Mobile app raises awareness of Global Goals, connects people who want to make a difference
Sep 20, 2016, at 01:05 pm
New York, Sept 20 (Just Earth News): In collaboration with partners, the United Nations has launched a mobile application to provide a global forum for industry, governments and individual citizens to collectively realise the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Sep 20, 2016, at 01:04 pm
New York, Sept 20 (Just Earth News): Condemning recent violence in Ndomete and Kaga Bandoro in Central African Republic (CAR), the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the country (MINUSCA) called on local communities to remain calm and underlined its right to take appropriate measures to prevent destabilization of the situation.
Libya: UN and partners launch appeal for urgent life-saving assistance in a complex emergency
Sep 20, 2016, at 01:03 pm
New York, Sept 20 (Just Earth News): The United Nations and humanitarian agencies in Libya on Monday issued an urgent appeal for $10.7 million to meet life-saving emergency assistance for close to 80,000 people located within the Libyan city of Sirte until the end of the year.
Sep 20, 2016, at 01:02 pm
New York, Sept 20 (Just Earth News): Speaking at the opening of the United Nations Summit for Refugees and Migrants, a number of senior UN officials stressed on the importance of the Summit and called on world leaders for collective action to address the global crisis.
Sep 20, 2016, at 01:01 pm
New York, Sept 20 (Just Earth News): In his address to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, the agency’s Director-General, highlighted work in various areas, including nuclear applications, nuclear safety and security, safeguards and technical cooperation, and modernizing a new pest control facility to tackle vector-brome diseases such as Zika.
As new UN development agency advocate, ‘Game of Thrones’ actor shows poverty the ‘red card’
Sep 20, 2016, at 04:27 am
New York, Sept 19 (Just Earth News): Globally acclaimed Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has kicked off his role as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to support the 17 Global Goals known as the UN Sustainable Development Goals, agreed last year by world leaders to tackle our planet’s toughest challenges by 2030.
INTERVIEW: Dame Margaret Anstee: first woman Under Secretary-General of the UN
Sep 20, 2016, at 04:26 am
New York, Sept 19 (Just Earth News): “A woman of firsts,†is perhaps only a summary description of Dame Margaret Anstee, the first woman to serve as a United Nations Under-Secretary-General.
World leaders at UN summit adopt 'bold' plan to enhance protections for refugees and migrants
Sep 20, 2016, at 04:22 am
New York, Sept 19 (Just Earth News): With more people forced to flee their homes than at any time since World War II, world leaders came together at the United Nations on Monday to adopt the New York Declaration, which expresses their political will to protect the rights of refugees and migrants, to save lives and share responsibility for large movements on a global scale.
Syria: UN relief chief 'disappointed' that aid workers still unable to safely access eastern Aleppo
Sep 20, 2016, at 04:21 am
New York, Sept 19 (Just Earth News): Expressing disappointment that humanitarian actors have not been able to reach eastern Aleppo in Syria, the United Nations humanitarian chief urged all parties to the conflict to facilitate regular and sustained access to the besieged and hard-to-reach areas across the country.
UN atomic energy agency begins building new laboratory to fortify fight against Zika, insect pests
Sep 20, 2016, at 04:20 am
New York, Sept 19 (Just Earth News): The United Nations nuclear energy agency has begun constructing a new laboratory that will enable it to better help countries use nuclear techniques, such as application of irradiation to sterilize insects, in the fight against pests, including mosquitoes that spread the Zika virus and other diseases.
Putin's United Russia party headed for victory in Parliamentary elections
Sep 19, 2016, at 07:43 pm
Moscow, Sep 19 (IBNS): President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party has won more than 54 per cent votes in 90 per cent of ballots counted for the nation's Parliamentary election, the media reported on Monday.
ISIS: 19 Yazidi women torched to death for refusing sex with soldiers
Sep 19, 2016, at 04:34 pm
Mosul, Sept 19 (IBNS): In a public execution, ISIS burnt 19 women alive to death in Iraq's Mosul recently, media reports said.
Sep 19, 2016, at 12:43 pm
New York, Sept 19 (Just Earth News): For too long, quality education has been accessible to the privileged few, but as people become more interdependent, quality education and lifelong learning must be available to all, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday, declaring education a “human right and universal good†at the launch of a United Nations-backed report setting out a plan for the largest expansion of education opportunity in history.
Sep 19, 2016, at 01:57 am
Ayutthaya, Sept 18 (IBNS): At least 13 people were killed as a boat, in which they were travelling, capsized in Thai city of Ayutthaya, media reports said.
Ban hails UN-backed fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria as partnership model for Global Goals
Sep 18, 2016, at 01:41 pm
New York, Sept 18 (Just Earth News): Praising the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as a model of partnership that brings together people and development partners, governments, civil society, the private sector and people affected by diseases, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday said such broad cooperation is also the key to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Senior ISIL leader killed in coalition strike
Sep 17, 2016, at 01:49 pm
Washington, Sept 17 (IBNS): A Sept. 7 coalition precision strike near Raqqah, Syria, targeted and killed "Dr. Wa'il," also known as Wa'il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad, one of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's most-senior leaders, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement issued on Friday.
FEATURE: Music for the children of Yarmouk – and all refugees
Sep 17, 2016, at 01:42 pm
New York, Sept 17 (Just Earth News): “I took my piano and made it everything: my work, and my studies at university; to teach children music,†begins Ayham al-Ahmad, in an interview with United Nations Radio, ahead of a UN summit on large movements of refugees and migrants on 19 September 2016.
FEATURE: Curtain rises on world's busiest diplomatic arena at UN Headquarters
Sep 17, 2016, at 01:40 pm
New York, Sept 17 (Just Earth News): As world leaders gather in New York in the coming days, the curtain will soon rise on the busiest diplomatic season of the year at the United Nations Headquarters.
UN rights expert calls for durable solutions for the displaced in Serbia and Kosovo
Sep 17, 2016, at 01:39 pm
New York, Sept 17 (Just Earth News): Concluding his five-day visit to Serbia and Kosovo, a United Nations human rights expert called on the Government of Serbia and the authorities in Kosovo to find an urgent and sustainable solution for people who have been displaced for almost 17 years.
Yazidi survivor of ISIL’s human trafficking appointed UN Goodwill Envoy for victims
Sep 17, 2016, at 01:38 pm
New York, Sept 17 (Just Earth News): Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Nadia Murad Basee Taha, who survived trafficking at the hands of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) was on Friday appointed a United Nations advocate for the victims of human trafficking.
Sep 17, 2016, at 01:35 pm
New York, Sept 17 (Just Earth News): Just days before the 19 September Summit for Refugees and Migrants, at a ceremony in New York on Friday, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accepted a 1.3 million signature-strong petition that expressed solidarity with millions of refugees.
Sep 17, 2016, at 01:32 pm
New York, Sept 17 (Just Earth News): In its latest report to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances expressed deep concern and frustration at the rising number of cases, and underlined the need to prevent such acts and hold the perpetrators to account.
Human rights expert group concludes first visit to South Sudan
Sep 17, 2016, at 01:31 pm
New York, Sept 17 (Just Earth News): Concluding its first visit to South Sudan, a United Nations-mandated human rights mission on Friday expressed deep concern over rights violations and the slow implementation of the August 2015 peace agreement between rival political factions.
Number of South Sudan refugees passes one million – UN
Sep 17, 2016, at 04:03 am
New York, Sept 16 (Just Earth News): As instability and violence persist in the world’s newest country, the number of South Sudanese seeking safety and shelter in neighbouring countries has crossed the one million mark, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday.
Niger: After 4-day visit, senior UN aid official calls for greater global support for displaced
Sep 17, 2016, at 04:01 am
New York, Sept 16 (Just Earth News): Wrapping up a four-day mission in Niger, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Africa’s Sahel region has called on the international community to show increased support for the people of Diffa and the rest of the Lake Chad Basin who have been displaced from their homes amid the violence of Boko Haram’s insurgency.
Ahead of World Peace Day, UN chief says Global Goals are 'building blocks for peace'
Sep 17, 2016, at 03:59 am
New York, Sept 16 (Just Earth News): Ahead of the International Day of Peace, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has stressed that each of the new global Sustainable Development Goals adopted a year ago by 193 countries are the “building blocks†for peace.