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Spain to build camp for migrant strawberry pickers after U.N. criticism
Spanish soldiers have been sent to build a camp for migrant strawberry pickers after a U.N. official criticised authorities for allowing seasonal farm workers to…
Global cooperation key to eradicating deadly pig virus: UN agency
A disease that may kill every pig it infects and for which there is no effective vaccine, can be eradicated if more countries continue to…
U.N. chief to world leaders: ’Inequality starts at the top’
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday accused world powers of ignoring inequality in global institutions, but said the coronavirus pandemic has created a ”generational opportunity”…
World’s poorest being pushed ‘closer to the abyss’ of famine, warns WFP chief
Hunger threatens to soar to devastating levels in 25 countries in the coming months due to the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the World…
Independent rights expert says emerging technologies entrenching racism, discrimination
An independent UN human rights expert is calling for greater scrutiny of emerging digital technologies which she said are being used to uphold racial inequality,…
World Population Day: ’No time to waste’ in empowering women
The COVID-19 pandemic affects everyone, everywhere, “but it does not affect everyone equally”, the UN chief said in his message for World Population Day, on…
UN Secretary-General: Coal has no place in COVID-19 recovery plans
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has today issued a stark warning that too many governments and businesses ”have still not got the message” and risk engineering…
Coronavirus: world treating symptoms, not cause of pandemics, says UN
The world is treating the health and economic symptoms of the coronavirus pandemic but not the environmental cause, according to the authors of a UN…
‘Stay the course together to emerge stronger’ from COVID-19 crisis: UN chief’s message to major sustainability forum
As a major United Nations forum prepares to assess progress towards a fairer future for people and the planet, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned…
UN rights office expresses alarm at Hong Kong arrests under new security law
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has expressed alarm at the arrest of demonstrators in Hong Kong, following China’s adoption of a national security law…
Business sector still far from reaching sustainability goals, UN report shows, 20 years on from landmark summit
A new UN report on tbe private sector, release by UN Global Compact, shows that progress on bringing about about a sustainable future for people…
UN warns Covid-19 could wipe out gains in equality for women at work
The coronavirus pandemic could wipe out “the modest progress” made on gender equality at work in recent decades with women globally at greater risk of…
UN highlights urgent need to tackle impact of likely electric car battery production boom
Demand for raw materials used in the production of electric car batteries is set to soar, prompting the UN trade body, UNCTAD, to call for…
Global partners require $31 billion to speed up COVID-19 medicines for all
As part of the information campaign on COVID-19, the commander of the Bangladeshi medical contingent at the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic,…
UN chief: COVID-19 signals need for global approach to problems
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called on the world to strengthen multilateral cooperation, saying a global approach has been the key to addressing the…
Universal, inclusive education ‘non-negotiable’
Inclusive education should be a “non-negotiable” right for all children, the head of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said in a new…
Global ban needed on bogus ‘conversion therapy’, argues UN rights expert
“Conversion therapy” is built on the false premise that it can alter the sexual orientation of gender diverse people, and many more countries around the…
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 by law enforcement agencies, the…
UN human rights chief calls for reparations for slavery, colonialism
The UN’s human rights chief urged countries Wednesday to confront the legacy of slavery and colonialism and to make amends for ”centuries of violence and…
Children caught in conflict facing ‘brutality and fear while the world watches’
Boys and girls used and abused in armed conflict have had their childhoods replaced by “pain, brutality and fear while the world watches”, the UN…
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