Month: February 2021

Pandemic pushing people ‘even further behind’, UN rights chief warns

As the COVID-19 pandemic gathers pace, people worldwide are “being left behind – or pushed even further behind”, the UN…

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USA: Rights experts call for reforms to end police brutality, systemic racism

Independent UN human rights experts appealed on Friday for the new United States Government to adopt wide ranging reforms to…

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Guterres: UN climate report a ‘red alert’ for the planet

Nations are “nowhere close” to the level of action needed to fight global warming, a UN climate action report said…

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Unless COVID is suppressed everywhere, we’ll be ‘back at square one’, Tedros warns

The number of people who have received a COVID-19 vaccination now exceeds those reportedly infected, the head of the UN’s…

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Senior officials call on Israel to halt West Bank demolitions and respect international law

Three high-level UN officials on Friday issued a statement calling for Israel to end demolitions in the occupied West Bank,…

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US should end use of private ‘for profit’ detention centres, urge human rights expert

A group of UN independent human rights experts on Thursday welcomed the United States’ decision to stop using privately run…

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COVID-19 impact exposes millions to the risk of trafficking, UN agency says‎

Although almost 50,000 victims of human trafficking were detected and reported in 2018 by 148 countries, the “hidden nature” of…

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WHO: Consecutive drop in new COVID-19 cases ‘encouraging news’

The number of new COVID-19 cases globally has fallen for the third week in a row, the World Health Organization…

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WHO urges effective and fair use of COVID vaccines

With COVID-19 vaccines currently in scarce supply, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday pressed governments to…

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