Category: Human Rights Defenders’ messages
Calling for a joint vaccination operational plan in Sudan, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today outlined the dire situation for thousands of children living in the Nuba Mountains, which remain inaccessible after four years ...
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) achieved significant progress over the past 15 years, but persistent gaps in official development assistance and insufficient access to markets, affordable medicines and new technologies have highlighted the need for ...
For the fifth International Day against Nuclear Tests, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed voluntary moratoria on testing imposed by nuclear-armed states but stressed that these cannot substitute for a legally-binding treaty. “The Comprehensive ...
West Africa is at risk of a large meningitis outbreak unless drug manufacturers increase vaccine production by 5 million doses before the 2016 meningitis season starts in January, the United Nations and leading public health ...
Three months after the first of the devastating earthquakes that hit Nepal, hundreds of thousands of survivors continue to require and rely on urgent humanitarian assistance, the top United Nations humanitarian official in the recovering ...
An increasing number of children are receiving life-saving vaccinations around the world, according to the latest data released by two United Nations agencies. In a press release issued earlier today, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
“It is easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build”– Nelson Mandela Every year on 18 July — the day Nelson Mandela was born — the UN joins ...
The United Nations food agency has warned that the ongoing food crisis in Syria could deteriorate without a humanitarian pause in the conflict there. Speaking at a press conference in the Australian capital of Canberra ...
UN report claiming « substantial information » that both Israel and Palestinians committed war crimes during Gaza conflict rejected by both sides . Both Israel and Palestinian militants committed grave violations during last year’s Gaza conflict that ...
Although the empowerment of women has been among the most significant achievements of the past century, the international community must “push further” in its struggle to ensure the right to education for all girls, the ...
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