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Displacement misery continues for GazansOCHA scales up response to cholera spread in SomaliaOn Education Day, UNESCO rallies teachers to counter hate speech
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Poverty and lack of education are pushing boys into joining armed groups and forcing girls to marry way before they should, warns Virginia Gamba, UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.
Her latest report documents more than 27,000 instances of grave violations against children caught up in war, including use in conflict, killing and maiming, and rape and sexual violence.
The report also reveals a worrisome rise in attacks against schools, with nearly half carried out by government forces.
Ms. Gamba spoke to UN News’s Felipe De Carvalho about the main drivers of child recruitment and the unique challenges that conflict poses to children and education systems.
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- Armenia: urgent health assistance required for Karabakh refugees: WHO
- ‘We need to stop deaths of people on the move’: IOM, UNHCR chiefs
- Hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese fleeing Sudan face hunger emergency: WFP
- Libya: Storm Daniel’s heavy toll on health workers: WHO
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- Hottest summer on record: UN chief calls for ‘surge in action’
- Sudan displacement tops five million: IOM
- People of African descent face ‘immense challenges’ in public square: OHCHR
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- Pervasive discrimination’ against people of African descent must stop: UN chief
- Refusal to waive intellectual property for COVID-19 vaccines violates human rights in global South, experts say
- ‘Last line of defence’ against extinction: UNESCO World Heritage sites under climate change threat
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- FAO raises alarm on escalating food crisis in Sudan
- Colombia: UN Mission to monitor ceasefire with ELN rebel group
- UN: Solutions needed to situation in Darien Gap
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Sudan health crisis at ‘gravely serious’ level warns WHO
- Forced returns to Burkina Faso must end says UNHCR
- New liver care campaign launched on World Hepatitis Day
This content originally appeared on UN News – Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Katy Dartford.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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- Yemen: UN starts high-risk operation to prevent catastrophic oil spill from decaying tanker
- IAEA: Anti-personnel mines found in Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine
- UN warns of looming disaster emergency in Asia-Pacific region
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This content originally appeared on UN News – Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Dominika Tomaszewska-Mortimer.
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- Sudan: Guterres calls on donors to step up aid response
- ‘Vital’ human rights cooperation must be above the fray of politics: UN rights chief
- Europe is world’s fastest-warming continent: WMO
This content originally appeared on UN News – Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Dominika Tomaszewska-Mortimer.
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From Afghanistan to Ukraine, the survivors of some of the world’s worst conflicts live in fear of landmines killing them or their children.
The UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) coordinates the Organization’s work to rid the world of mines, explosive remnants of war and improvised explosive devices.
Ahead of Mine Action Week beginning 19 June, which brings major demining stakeholders to Geneva, UNMAS Director of Policy Abigail Hartley sat down with UN News’s Dominika Tomaszewska-Mortimer to express sadness at the deaths last week of 27 civilians – most of them minors – killed by unexploded ordnance in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia.
The UN mine action service veteran also shared her optimism that Ukraine will one day be mine-free, too.
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- COP26 made progress, but climate catastrophe not averted: UN chief
- $40 million in aid relief to Ethiopia for victims of conflict, drought
- ‘Under $1’ HIV/syphilis test kits approved to stop mother-baby transmission
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Even if we were to cut all the world’s greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow, we would still be left coping with rising temperatures and an unpredictable climate. That’s why adaptation is, literally, a hot topic at COP26.
Nevertheless, the annual $100 billion promised for climate finance in the 2015 Paris Agreement – half of which was to be earmarked to help developing countries to cope with the climate crisis – has yet to materialize.
In today’s Lid Is On podcast from COP26, Conor Lennon and Laura Quiñones talk to UN officials and activists about adaptation and, with the conference past the half-way point, they take stock of week one.
Music: “Within the Earth”, Ketsa, and “Into the Amazon”, Emily Burridge
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Human trafficking takes many forms and can involve forced labour or domestic servitude. But when it comes to misusing technology platforms online, that’s mainly being done by sex traffickers to target and manipulate their victims.
New research conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows how victims are being lured via social media and online dating platforms, where personal information and location details, are readily available.
Tiphanie Crittin, a UNODC Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer spoke to Louise Potterton, and told her about the challenges of trying to shut down sex trafficking networks.
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- Prioritize water and climate action, WMO and partners say ahead of COP26
- Rising climate could push millions more into hunger: WFP
- Rights experts urge Viet Nam to release detained writer and activist
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- Afghanistan facing ‘epic humanitarian crisis’ UN chief warns neighbouring countries.
- COVID-19 pandemic impact on jobs, worse than feared: ILO
- Russian Wagner Group, intimidating, harassing civilians in Central African Republic, independent rights experts warn
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- Planet still on track for catastrophic heating: new Emissions Gap report
- UN rights chief to Israel: Reverse terrorist designations
- Pakistan eases passage across border with Afghanistan
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More than one million people in southern Madagascar are going hungry in what the World Food Programme (WFP) believes could become the first-ever famine brought on by climate change.
Successive years of drought have forced people in rural communities to eat locusts, fruit and cactus leaves because they have been unable to plant or harvest sweet potatoes, tomatoes and other crops.
Alice Rahmoun, WFP Communications Officer in the capital, Antananarivo, was in the region recently. She said families have been selling prized assets, such as cattle, farmland and even homes, to survive.
Ms. Rahmoun spoke to Dianne Penn about the UN agency’s support to some 700,000 people, with plans to reach more, and hopes for the COP26 climate change conference which opens later this month in Glasgow, Scotland.
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- ‘Overzealous’ security services undermining South Sudan peace: rights experts
- Humanitarian assistance stepped up on Yemen’s west coast
- Freedom of thought increasingly violated worldwide by technology: UN expert
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This content originally appeared on UN News and was authored by UN News.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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- Yemen’s future still fragile, warns senior aid official
- Deadly new Ebola virus outbreak confirmed in DR Congo
- Countries bear cross-border responsibility for harmful climate impacts, says UN Child Rights Committee
This content originally appeared on UN News and was authored by Daniel Johnson, UN News Geneva.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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- Afghanistan: ‘Depth of destitution’ must be met with urgent aid scale-up
- COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to decline
- UN envoy urges commitment to peace in Yemen on first visit
This content originally appeared on UN News and was authored by Katy Dartford, UN News – Geneva.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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- Ethiopia expulsions could affect aid operation, warn UN humanitarians
- UN rights chief Bachelet shocked by killing of Rohingya activist
- 2.5 million face ‘dire situation’ as drought persists in Kenya: OCHA
This content originally appeared on UN News and was authored by Daniel Johnson, UN News – Geneva.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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- ‘Urgent’ international response needed in Myanmar after coup – UN chief
- Comprehensive support needed for Haitians facing expulsion in Americas
- COVID-19: 15 African nations meet 10 per cent vaccination threshold
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The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty opened for signature 25 years ago this month but hasn’t yet entered into force.
In his first UN News interview, the new head of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) notes that prior to 1996, when the Treaty opened for signature, around 2,000 nuclear tests were conducted, but since then, only three countries have crossed the line – only one of those, this century.
For Robert Floyd, nuclear testing remains an existential threat for humanity, with some 13,400 nuclear weapons still primed for use.
He spoke in New York to UN News’s Alexandre Soares, who started by asking him how CTBTO helps make the world a safer place.
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- Myanmar crisis escalating towards civil war, warns UN rights chief
- G20 need to scale up food aid to Afghanistan’s rural population
- South Sudan plagued by violence and corruption, Human Rights Council hears
This content originally appeared on UN News and was authored by Katy Dartford, UN News – Geneva.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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- Paris climate deal could go up in smoke without action: Guterres
- Lebanon crisis needs international assistance urgently: WHO chief
- Refugees face dire consequences from COVID-19 underfunding
This content originally appeared on UN News and was authored by Daniel Johnson, UN News – Geneva.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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- Global economy projected to show fastest growth in 50 years
- UN deputy chief condemns Mogadishu suicide bombing
- Cluster bomb victims rise, despite progress in eliminating weapons
This content originally appeared on UN News and was authored by Daniel Johnson, UN News – Geneva.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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- First humanitarian flight to Kabul marks ‘turning point’: WFP
- After 10 years of war in Syria, siege tactics make their return
- Unremitting suffering in Yemen in spotlight at Human Rights Council
This content originally appeared on UN News and was authored by Katy Dartford, UN News – Geneva.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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- Support Afghans in their most perilous hour, urges UN’s Guterres
- Bachelet warns of deteriorating human rights situation in Afghanistan
- Nuclear watchdog announces deal with Iran over surveillance
This content originally appeared on UN News and was authored by Katy Dartford, UN News, Geneva.This post was originally published on Radio Free.