FEATURE:UN Envoy in Haiti discusses upcoming elections and UN’s transitioning role
New York, Apr 19 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Sandra Honoré is the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti and head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the country (MINUSTAH). A post she has held since 15 July 2013.
UN supporting authorities in Ecuador following strongest earthquake in decades
New York, Apr 19 (Just Earth News/IBNS): While the Government of Ecuador is leading the response to continue helping people and communities affected by Saturday’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake, the United Nations announced it has deployed relief teams to provide additional support.
Civilians in embattled Yarmouk facing 'starvation and dehydration', UN agency warns
New York, Apr 17 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Up to 10,000 civilians in Yarmouk camp in Damascus, Syria, have gone without food and water for more than a week due to ongoing fighting, on Saturday warned the United Nations relief agency charged with the well-being of Palestinian refugees across the Middle East.
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New York, Apr 16 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Three days of informal briefings came to an end yesterday, after nine candidates for the position of the next United Nations Secretary-General answered all together some 800 questions from the UN membership and the public on how, if selected, they would lead the world body.
UN agency and Google collaborate on satellite data tools to manage natural resources
New York, Apr 16 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Google on Friday announced plans to work together to make high-resolution satellite data a common tool in managing the world’s natural resources, ultimately boosting efforts towards the pursuit of sustainable development.
New York, Apr 15 (Just Earth News/IBNS):Holt In a massive undertaking aimed at stamping out polio once and for all – dubbed ‘the switch’ – a United Nations-backed eradication initiative will next week begin the largest and fastest globally coordinated rollout of a vaccine into routine immunization programmes in history.
'Two-state solution in danger,' warns new report from UN office on Middle East peace process
New York, Apr 15 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The viability of a two-state solution, which envisages peaceful co-existence of both Israel and Palestine, is in danger due to the negative trends on the ground, including recent violence, ongoing settlement activity, demolitions, incitement, and the absence of Palestinian unity, a new United Nations report warned on Thursday.
New York, Apr 15 (Just Earth News/IBNS):Holt In a massive undertaking aimed at stamping out polio once and for all – dubbed ‘the switch’ – a United Nations-backed eradication initiative will next week begin the largest and fastest globally coordinated rollout of a vaccine into routine immunization programmes in history.
The next UN Secretary-General: last day of informal briefings
New York, Apr 15 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The third and final session of informal briefings to hear the views of three more candidates for the position of the next United Nations Secretary-General is taking place at UN Headquarters in New York on Thursday, focusing on how they would tackle some of the world’s most urgent issues should they be selected to replace current UN chief Ban Ki-moon in January 2017.
With peace and stability gains, Côte d'Ivoire 'on the rights track' – UN peacekeeping chief
New York, Apr 13 (Just Earth News/IBNS): With Côte d'Ivoire now firmly anchored on the path of peace, stability and economic recovery, the top United Nations peacekeeping official on Tuesday said that it is perhaps time to consider wrapping up the UN mission and begin to consider the Organization’s future role in supporting the consolidating the country’s gains.
Iraq: UN mission warns of increasing risks for civilians in besieged Fallujah
New York, Apr 13 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said it is receiving reports that humanitarian conditions are worsening and human suffering is increasing in the city of Fallujah, which has been under control of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) for more than two years.
Ban highlights need to fight ‘genocide ideology,’ as UN reflects on 1994 atrocities in Rwanda
New York, Apr 12 (Just Earth News/IBNS): At an event marking the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the only way to prevent genocide and other “egregious†violations of human rights is to acknowledge shared responsibility and commit to shared action to protect those at risk.
UN experts urges Honduras to end impunity in murder of human rights defender
New York, Apr 12 (Just Earth News/IBNS): More than a month after the killing of Berta Cáceres, a female human rights defender, eight United Nations experts have jointly reiterated their appeal to the Government of Honduras to provide justice and reveal the truth in her murder, and to ensure the security and protection of all people defending the environment and human rights in the country.
UN survey finds displaced Palestinian families in Gaza Strip live in desperate conditions
New York, Apr 12 (Just Earth News/IBNS): More than 75,000 Palestinian families internally displaced in the Gaza Strip as a result of the 2014 escalation of hostilities continue to live in fraught conditions and are in need of homes, the United Nations relief coordination wing for the Occupied Palestinian Territory reported on Monday.
New UN report focuses on green, inclusive industrialization in Africa
New York, Apr 12 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Welcoming the launch of the latest economic report on Africa, a senior United Nations official on Monday highlighted that African countries should leapfrog “business as usual,†carbon-intensive methods of growth and instead pursue a pathway to green industrialization.