Month: June 2020

Bachelet: Israel’s illegal annexation plans for Palestine, ‘disastrous’ for wider Middle East

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned Israel on Monday not to proceed along the “dangerous path” of annexing…

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Global partners require $31 billion to speed up COVID-19 medicines for all

More than $31 billion is needed over the next 12 months to develop medicines that will be effective against COVID-19…

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Yemen: millions of children facing deadly hunger, amidst aid shortages and COVID-19

Millions of children in the heart of the world’s worst humanitarian disaster could be pushed to the brink of starvation,…

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Speak out against torture, an ‘abhorrent denial of human dignity’, urges UN chief

Torture is an “egregious abuse of human rights”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday, the International Day in Support of…

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UN marks 75-year milestone anniversary of founding Charter

The UN Charter “brought rules and hope to a world in ruins”, Secretary-General António Guterres told a virtual ceremony on Friday, commemorating…

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WHO delivers laboratory supplies to Islamic Republic of Iran’s National Polio Laboratory

The World Health Organization (WHO) has delivered supplies to the National Polio Laboratory of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The…

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New Assembly president pledges to serve UN ‘as a whole’, building consensus

The expectations and views of each of the world’s regional groups and its members “will be equally important and valuable…

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World Refugee Day: End conflict that drives ‘appalling’ displacement numbers

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has reminded countries of their fundamental obligation to protect the nearly 80 million people worldwide forced…

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Human Rights Council calls on top UN rights official to take action on racist violence

The UN’s top rights official, Michelle Bachelet, is to spearhead efforts to address systemic racism against people of African descent…

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Countries fail to protect a billion children from violence each year, UN warns

Each year, half of the world’s children – around one billion youngsters – are affected by physical, sexual, or psychological…

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