20 June 2018 (UN News) – Although more people are leading better lives than a decade ago, persistent poverty and hunger, as well as rapid urbanization, are challenging global efforts to create a more just and equitable world, according to a United Nations report launched on Wednesday.The study provides a snapshot of progress towards achieving […]
By Morgan Winsor 20 June 2018 (ABC News) – Record high numbers of men, women, and children were driven from their homes across the world last year due to war, violence, and persecution, according to a new report by the United Nations’ refugee agency. The UNHCR’s annual Global Trends study found that a staggering 68.5 […]
By Alister Doyle; editing by John Stonestreet 20 June 2018 OSLO (Reuters) – Global warming is on course to exceed the most stringent goal set in the Paris agreement by around 2040, threatening economic growth, according to a draft report that is the U.N.’s starkest warning yet of the risks of climate change.Governments can still […]
20 June 2018 (UN News) – The appeal by Secretary-General António Guterres comes in a video message for World Refugee Day, observed this Wednesday, 20 June 2018.In it, he reported that a person was displaced every two seconds during 2017. “On World Refugee Day, we must all think about what more we can we do […]
By Robert Rohde 13 May 2018 (Twitter) – In 1992, the world adopted the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to fight global warming. The same year, the IPCC released a set of projections for future CO2. The most widely used, IS92a, depicted global growth under business-as-usual. Today, CO2 is only ~5 ppm below […]
By Neil Jerome Morales; Editing by Edwina Gibbs 2 June 2018 (Reuters) – Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has told a U.N human rights expert who said the country’s judicial independence was under threat to “go to hell”, warning against interference in domestic affairs. The Philippine Supreme Court voted last month to remove Chief Justice Maria […]
30 May 2018 (UN News) – Cases of lead poisoning have been reported in the area near the factory, located in a poor area in the coastal city of Mombasa. The environmental defenders have been harassed and intimidated since an initial court hearing against the company which took place on 17 May 2018, and fear […]
22 May 2018 (UN News) – In a hard-hitting speech marking the 25th anniversary of the World Conference on Human Rights that underscored the “universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated” nature of human rights, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, said that a quarter century on, the world seemed instead to be […]
21 May 2018 (UNODC) – In 2017, opium cultivation in Afghanistan reached a record high with an estimated 328,000 hectares, up 63 per cent compared with 201,000 hectares in 2016.According to the latest survey report released today by UNODC, last year’s record levels of production has led to unprecedented levels of potential heroin production. From […]
2 May 2018 (UN News) – In a call for Member States to take action urgently, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, warned that air pollution “threatens us all, but the poorest and most marginalized people bear the brunt of the burden.”According to WHO’s ambient air quality database, despite some improvements, pollution levels […]
