Avainsana: Security
Food security: EU to step up its support to African, Caribbean and Pacific countries in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
The European Commission adopted today a proposal to mobilise €600 million from the reserves of the European Development Fund to address the current food security…
Fourth Security Union Report: Preparedness and resilience shown by the EU in the face of exceptional and unexpected threats
The Commission is adopting today the fourth progress report on the progress made under the EU Security Union Strategy. The report focuses on the developments…
Commission acts for global food security and for supporting EU farmers and consumers
Today, the European Commission has presented a range of short-term and medium-term actions to enhance global food security and to support farmers and consumers in…
In an anxious world, time to redefine progress: new UN report
People’s sense of safety and security is at a low in almost every country, with six in seven worldwide plagued by feelings of insecurity, according…
After 10 years of war in Syria, siege tactics still threaten civilians
The future for Syria’s people is “increasingly bleak”, UN-appointed rights experts said on Tuesday, highlighting escalating conflict in several areas of the war-ravaged country, a…
No place for children in conflict, UN chief tells Security Council
The disregard for children’s rights amid war and upheaval “is shocking and heartbreaking”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday during a high-level open…
Time to shift from ’food security’ to ’nutrition security’ to increase health and well-being
Tufts and Georgetown scientists, and humanitarian José Andrés, call for a new approach to address food and nutrition inequities . In the 1960s, a national…
Guterres hails entry into force of treaty banning nuclear weapons
The first multilateral nuclear disarmament treaty in more than two decades, came into force just after midnight on Friday, hailed by the UN Secretary-General as…
HK govt tells schools to remove books breaching security law
Hong Kong’s government on Monday ordered schools to review and remove any books that might breach a sweeping new security law that Beijing imposed last…
New UN report highlights link between gender, climate and security
Even as countries buckle under the devastating social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, they must consider the links between gender inequality and crisis,…
UNICEF condemns in ‘strongest possible terms’ killing of children in DR Congo
UNICEF denounced on Saturday, an attack that killed 16 people, including five girls under age 15, in north eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)….
Hong Kong’s security chief warns of growing ’terrorism’ as govt backs Beijing’s planned security laws
Hong Kong’s security chief said “terrorism” was growing in the city, as government departments rallied on Monday behind Beijing’s plans to introduce national security laws…
Germany leads globally in energy security levels, thanks to renewables – study
Germany boasts the highest energy security level in the world, due in large part to the wide spread use of renewable energy sources in the…
Syria’s al-Assad forces accused of using chemical weapons
President Bashar al-Assad’s military regime likely used chemical weapons in an illegal attack in Syria, the Hague-based Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)…
EU unveils coronavirus app tracking guidelines
The European Commission on Wednesday recommended establishing a pan-European approach to using mobile technologies and data to better tackle the novel coronavirus pandemic. The Commission…
Children vulnerable to abuse and violence during coronavirus lockdowns, UN experts warn
Independent UN human rights experts have called on States to boost child protection measures to help safeguard the welfare of millions of children who may…
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