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Pacific Children Get Health Boost With Government Immunization Commitments
Thursday, 25 April 2024, 4:50 am | UNICEF
Nine Pacific countries have committed to greater protection for children against life threatening diseases by expanding their immunization programme that has been implemented by UNICEF in collaboration with Ministries of Health and funding from ... More >>
Citizenship (Western Samoa) Act 1982 Bill
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 4:33 pm | Mau a Samoa i le Sitiseni 2024
The Mau a Samoa i le Sitiseni 2024, a group of Samoans led by former Members of Parliament Anae Lupematasila Arthur Anae, and Afioga Aupito Toeolesulusulu Tofae Sua William Sio is stepping up its advocacy and awareness raising campaign to inform ... More >>
‘Nowhere Is Safe’ For Children In Occupied Palestinian Territory With At Least 24 Children Killed In Gaza And West Bank
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 11:03 am | Save The Children
At least 24 children have reportedly been killed in three days of violence in the occupied Palestinian territory including 21 children killed by airstrikes in Rafah, and at least three children killed in Israeli force raids in a refugee camp in Tulkarm ... More >>
Healing Page By Page In Earthquake-affected Türkiye
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 6:06 am | UN News
Book by book and page by page, Türkiye’s booklovers are bringing life back to cities ravaged by the deadly 2023 earthquakes through the power of reading, with help from cash grants from the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM). More >>
Mass Graves In Gaza Show Victims’ Hands Were Tied, Says UN Rights Office
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 6:03 am | UN News
Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly found stripped naked with their hands tied, prompting renewed concerns about possible war crimes amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes, the UN human ... More >>
UN Envoy Urges International Solidarity With Haiti As Gang Violence Spirals
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 6:01 am | UN News
As gang violence increases in Haiti, the international community must continue to stand in solidarity with the population, the UN Special Representative for the country told the Security Council on Monday. More >>
World News In Brief: Rising West Bank Violence, Dialogue Critical In Kosovo, Free Detained Afghan Activist
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 5:58 am | UN News
The UN Middle East envoy has expressed concern about increased levels of violence in the West Bank, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists in New York on Monday. More >>
UN Chief Urges ‘Surge In Investment’ To Overcome $4 Trillion Financing Gap
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 5:56 am | UN News
The UN Secretary-General on Monday called for a “surge in investment” to give developing countries a chance to build better lives for their people. More >>
Raising Hairless Primates
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 5:52 am | Human Bridges
Viewing my children through primatological glasses provides me with an ongoing perspective on raising them. Remembering that we’re all one big primate family makes the wilds of human parenting a little more manageable—and fun. More >>
Elites In The Global North Are Scared To Talk About Palestine
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 5:45 am | Globetrotter
Over the past six months, newspapers and television shows in the United States have generally written about the genocidal violence using passive voice: bombs fell, people died. More >>
Albania: High Number Of Pre-trial Detainees, Access To Healthcare Matters Of Concern, UN Torture Prevention Body Says
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 5:39 am | UN Treaty Bodies
“The high number of pre-trial detainees is concerning. Steps must be taken without delay to reduce the prison population in Albania, as a means of preventing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment,” said Vasiliki Artinopoulou, head of the delegation. More >>
UN Human Rights Chief Deplores Harrowing Killings Of Children And Women In Rafah
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 5:38 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
“Given the prevailing climate of impunity, this should include international investigators,” he added. “Hospitals are entitled to very special protection under international humanitarian law. And the intentional killing of civilians, detainees, and others ... More >>
UK-Rwanda Asylum Law: UN Leaders Warn Of Harmful Consequences
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 5:35 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Following the passage of the “Safety of Rwanda” Bill by the UK Parliament, two UN leaders have again sounded the alarm on the harmful impact it will have on global responsibility-sharing, human rights and refugee protection. More >>
Indian Experts Say Mega-project Will Lead To Uncontacted Island Tribe's "Extinction"
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 5:33 am | Survival International
A group of renowned Indian experts on the Indigenous peoples in the region have written an open letter to the Indian government, demanding that the controversial Great Nicobar Development Project be scrapped. More >>
First Person: ‘Our Tears Are Dry, We Are Exhausted’ – Youth Voices In Haiti
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 5:25 am | UN News
A youth activist in Haiti has described how years of gang violence, kidnappings and insecurity in the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, has forced their “tears to run dry”. More >>
Novak Djokovic, Aitana Bonmatí, Jude Bellingham, Simone Biles The Big Winners At The 2024 Laureus World Sports Awards
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 5:23 am | Laureus
Twenty-fifth edition of sport’s most prestigious global Awards brings the world’s greatest athletes to Madrid. More >>
Independent Review Panel Releases Final Report On UNRWA
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 5:16 am | UN News
An independent panel released its much-awaited report on Monday about the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), providing 50 recommendations and noting that Israeli authorities have yet to provide proof of their claims that UN staff are involved ... More >>
Thousands Of Children Killed Or Maimed By Explosive Weapons In Populated Areas: UNICEF
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 5:12 am | UN News
Meaningful action to prevent the use of explosive weapons in populated areas could reduce the number of child casualties in conflicts by nearly half, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday. More >>
Secretary-General Calls For UN 2.0 To Tackle 21st Century Challenges
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 5:10 am | UN News
Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday emphasised the need for a “strengthened and updated” United Nations to better reach and support people around the world. More >>
Heatwave Deaths Increased Across Almost All Europe In 2023, Says UN Weather Agency
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 5:05 am | UN News
Climate change shocks caused record levels of disruption and misery for millions in Europe in 2023 with widespread flooding and severe heatwaves – a new normal which countries must adapt to as a priority, the UN weather agency said on Monday. More >>
Celebrate Earth Day With Our Struggle For Self-determination!
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 3:00 pm | IPMSDL
Indigenous Peoples’ right to self-determination is the power to determine our future, self-govern, and manage the environment, biodiversity, waters, and resources within our ancestral territories. More >>
Myanmar: Khaing Zar Aung Expresses ”Honour And Sadness” For Global Rights Prize
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 2:32 pm | ITUC
Khaing Zar Aung told the ITUC: “I receive the 2024 Arthur Svensson prize with great honour and sadness, because while I am awarded, the working people of my country suffer." More >>
UN Expert Publishes User Guide On Right To Healthy And Sustainable Environment
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 2:30 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The User Guide aims to provide useful and inspiring advice to civil society, social movements and communities on how to accelerate implementation of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. More >>
After Months Of Diagnostic Delay, A Migrant Worker Could Access TB Services Only When A Community Health Worker Met Him
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 2:24 pm | CNS
A migrant worker who was sick for over three months, actively sought medical help and advice, but his health kept deteriorating. Despite having constant cough, fever, and increasing weakness since months, neither he nor his treating doctor(s) thought ... More >>
Uniting For Global Reproductive Health Equity
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 2:20 pm | UNFPA Asia and the Pacific
Opinion-Editorial by UNFPA Asia-Pacific Regional Director on the launch of the State of World Population Report 2024 More >>
EU-Israel Data Transfer Adequacy Greenlit Again: NGOs Call For Scrutiny Over Red Flags
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 2:17 pm | Access Now
Through an open letter , Access Now, EDRi, and nine human rights organisations are calling on the European Commission to scrutinise and reconsider its decision to re-confirm the data transfer adequacy with Israel made on January 15, 2024. Given Israel’s ... More >>
UK: Airlines And Aviation Authorities Should Not Facilitate Unlawful Removals To Rwanda, UN Experts Say
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 2:13 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (22 April 2024) – UN experts* today expressed concern about the role of airlines and aviation authorities in facilitating unlawful removals to Rwanda under the Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom and the Government of ... More >>
Collaborative Maritime Framework Set to Transform Pacific Island Maritime Sector
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 1:12 pm | Pacific Community - SPC
Responding to a request from Pacific Transport ministers, the Pacific Community (SPC) has convened a meeting with Heads of Maritime from 15 PICTs in Nadi this week. More >>
Gaza: Rate Of Attacks On Healthcare Higher Than In Any Other Conflict Globally Since 2018
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 9:10 am | Save The Children
The rate of attacks per month on healthcare in Gaza since the beginning of the war has been higher than in any other recent conflict globally, standing at an average of 73 attacks each month, according to new analysis by Save the Children. More >>
Morobe Beekeeper Alma Napo Wins The Grand Prize In The Lily Homemade Microbusiness Entrepreneur Competition
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 5:51 am | Lily magazine
Judges were impressed with the all-natural cough drop medicine Alma Napo developed from raw, rich and organic honey, ginger and lemons grown right on her doorstep in the Buang mountains (Morobe). More >>
UN Experts Urge Immediate Release Of Afghan Rights Defender
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 4:58 am | OHCHR
Ahmad Fahim Azimi was imprisoned on 17 October 2023 by the de facto authorities in Afghanistan along with his colleague Siddiqullah Afghan, seemingly in connection with their work and advocacy for women's and girls' right to education. More >>
UN Policy Forum Opens With Call For Region To Embrace Digital Opportunities And Innovate For Sustainable Development
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 4:44 am | UN ESCAP
More than 800 participants from 61 member States, associate members and permanent observers as well as representatives from academia, international organizations, youth, business and civil society are attending the session this week. More >>
European Union Funds Film Raro2 To Save Culture In The Pacific.
Monday, 22 April 2024, 2:17 pm | Film Raro2
Film Raro2 is an initiative to capacity build and empower Pacific storytellers to tell their own digital stories and at the same time be the global conduit to share what Pacific stories are, with international filmmakers. More >>
Reverse The Massive Increase In World Military Spending
Monday, 22 April 2024, 12:52 pm | Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition
“Figures supplied by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) indicate a worldwide large increase in military spending at a time when the world faces problems that cannot be resolved by military action,” said Peter Murphy from ... More >>
The False Diversity Of Identity, Part Two
Monday, 22 April 2024, 10:26 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
With respect to dialogue and cooperation between people of dissimilar or similar histories and ethnicities in a fractured world, perhaps it boils down to serious people resolving the following questions within. Can two or more people discover ... More >>
International Workers’ Memorial Day 2024: Action For Climate-Related Workplace Hazards
Monday, 22 April 2024, 7:52 am | ITUC
There is an urgent need for emergency preparedness to be integrated into workplace safety policies, in democratic consultation with workers’ trade unions. More >>
Telling The ‘Untold’ Stories Of Palestinian Lives, Dreams, And Hopes—in Gaza And Beyond
Monday, 22 April 2024, 5:36 am | Independent Media Institute
The media collective Untold Palestine gathers the stories mainstream media doesn’t tell about Palestinians—videos, photographs, and written accounts from Palestinian people about their culture and daily life. More >>
South Korea’s Election Outcome: Opposition Party Triumphs, President Yoon Faces Diplomatic And Domestic Challenges
Monday, 22 April 2024, 5:08 am | Globetrotter
Opposition party wins in South Korea’s election, posing challenges for President Yoon’s governance and foreign relations, notably with China. Despite this, Yoon’s alignment with the U.S. and Japan is likely to continue, amid domestic concerns like ... More >>
Grand Slam Champion Garbiñe Muguruza Announces Retirement Ahead Of Laureus World Sports Awards
Sunday, 21 April 2024, 6:41 am | Laureus
The 30-year-old initially stepped back from tournament tennis in 2023 and ahead of the Laureus World Sports Awards – taking place in Madrid on Monday, April 22 – officially ended her competitive career and revealed that her future will include ... More >>
USA: Historic Union Victory At Volkswagen Factory An “Inspiration For Democracy At Work”
Sunday, 21 April 2024, 6:39 am | ITUC
The ITUC congratulates the workers at the Volkswagen car plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA for their historic vote to join the United Auto Workers (UAW). More >>
Mixed Efforts To Achieve Energy Goals Highlighted At The End Of Sustainability Week
Sunday, 21 April 2024, 6:36 am | UN News
The unanimous declaration of the Decade of Sustainable Energy for All in 2012 aimed to hone on the importance of improving “access to reliable, affordable, economically viable, socially acceptable and environmentally sound energy services and resources ... More >>
Sudan: Famine Risk Is Real, FAO Warns
Sunday, 21 April 2024, 6:33 am | UN News
Millions are on the brink of famine in Sudan but “a window of opportunity” exists for the international community to act now as the main planting season approaches, a senior official with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday. More >>
Green Light For New Cholera Vaccine, Ukraine Attacks Condemned, Action Against Racism, Brazil Rights Defenders Alert
Sunday, 21 April 2024, 6:28 am | UN News
A new oral vaccine for cholera has been given the green light for manufacture by the UN health agency allowing for the massive scale-up of lifesaving immunisation in the world’s most vulnerable communities. More >>
Court Victory Vs. Golden Rice And Bt Eggplant In The Philippines ‘inspiring’
Sunday, 21 April 2024, 5:08 am | PAN Asia Pacific
The dedication of the Filipino people in the battle against Golden Rice and Bt eggplant inspires civil society and farmers’ movements elsewhere in Asia to thwart all efforts of agrochemical transnational corporations to push their hazardous technologies. More >>
Ukraine War, ‘Stark Reminder’ Of The Trials Facing Multilateralism
Saturday, 20 April 2024, 7:10 am | UN News
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is “a stark reminder” of the challenges to multilateralism and remains the top priority of UN partner the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Security Council heard on Friday. More >>
Canada Must Strengthen Efforts To Guarantee Right To Water And Sanitation For Indigenous Peoples: UN Expert
Saturday, 20 April 2024, 7:07 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Canada must step up efforts to eliminate discrimination and marginalisation, particularly of its Indigenous Peoples, and fully uphold the human rights to water and sanitation for all its peoples, a UN expert said today. More >>
Retaliatory Spiral In Middle East Must End, Says UN Chief After Reported Strikes On Iran
Saturday, 20 April 2024, 7:05 am | UN News
Following reports of alleged Israeli strikes inside Iran near a nuclear power station early Friday, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a new appeal to all parties to “stop the dangerous cycle of retaliation in the Middle East”. More >>
UN Climate Change Partners With Global Visual Arts Sector To Increase Climate Action
Saturday, 20 April 2024, 7:03 am | UNFCCC
The Charter will become the visual arts pillar of UN Climate Change’s Entertainment & Culture for Climate Action alliance, which aims at accelerating the transition of arts, film, music, and other relevant sectors to reduced greenhouse gas emissions ... More >>
Renewable Energy Transforming The Landscape
Saturday, 20 April 2024, 5:39 am | UN News
Renewable energy, if supported by governments, can “truly change the landscape” in terms of achieving equitable access to affordable and clean energy, but only if they can move from “commitment to action”, according to the Director-General ... More >>
Argentina: ITUC Condemns IMF’s Praise Of Milei’s Disastrous Economic Policies
Saturday, 20 April 2024, 5:18 am | ITUC
The ITUC criticises the IMF’s endorsement of the austerity measures taken by the Argentinian President which have led to widespread social turmoil. The IMF and the other International Financial Institutions must support policies that strengthen, ... More >>
Myanmar: Türk Sounds Alarm Amid Rising Tensions In Rakhine
Saturday, 20 April 2024, 4:58 am | OHCHR
Since the year-long informal ceasefire between the two sides broke down last November, 15 of Rakhine’s 17 townships have been affected by fighting, resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries, and taking the number of displaced to well over 300,000. More >>
U.N. Member States:Support The Establishment Of Ad Hoc Criminal Tribunal To Prosecute Russian Crime Of Aggression
Saturday, 20 April 2024, 4:45 am | Fortify Rights
The establishment of a special criminal tribunal is the only serious avenue to prosecute de-facto Russian President Vladimir Putin and his senior political and military accomplices for launching and pursuing Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine, More >>
ITUC Just Transition Centre Wins Leading Sustainability Award
Saturday, 20 April 2024, 4:24 am | ITUC
The WIN WIN Gothenburg Sustainability Award is a non-profit organisation with the aim of presenting the world’s leading sustainability prize since 2000 to individuals or organisations that make important contributions towards a greener world. More >>
Milei Celebrates Violent Repression Of Thousands Protesting Hunger In Argentina
Friday, 19 April 2024, 2:48 pm | Globetrotter
The mobilization, organized by the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP) was one of many that took place in cities across the country to raise awareness of the critical situation faced by workers in the informal economy. More >>
German Police Shut Down Pro-Palestine Conference
Friday, 19 April 2024, 2:40 pm | Globetrotter
German police dramatically stormed the stage of the conference and proceeded to shut down speakers after the Congress had already begun, interrupted and stopped the conference livestream, and broke into the control room to shut off the power. More >>
Governments Convene At UN To Deliberate Digital Pathways To Accelerate Region’s Sustainable Development
Friday, 19 April 2024, 2:04 pm | UN ESCAP
Asia and the Pacific is uniquely placed to leverage digital technologies to overcome sustainable development challenges. More >>
Pandemic Experts Express Concern Over Avian Influenza Spread To Humans
Friday, 19 April 2024, 1:04 pm | UN News
The ongoing global spread of “bird flu” infections to mammals including humans is a significant public health concern, senior UN medics said on Thursday, as they announced new measures to tackle airborne diseases. More >>
Palestine’s Status At The UN Explained
Friday, 19 April 2024, 12:59 pm | UN News
What will it take for Palestine to become a full UN Member State? As the Security Council takes up the matter while the devastating war in Gaza enters its seventh month, we looked at Palestine’s current status and what it takes to become a UN ... More >>
Earth Day 2024 Focuses On Planet Vs Plastics
Friday, 19 April 2024, 12:53 pm | Slow Food International
From the Slow Food Earth Markets Network: Concrete Solutions to Reduce the Use of Plastics in the Food Chain and Protect the Environment Earth Day 2024 focuses on Planet vs Plastics “It is urgent to denounce once more the overuse of ... More >>
New Report Accuses UNESCO Of Complicity In The Eviction And Abuse Of Indigenous People
Friday, 19 April 2024, 11:52 am | Survival International
On-the-ground investigations by Survival researchers, in Indigenous communities across Africa and Asia, have uncovered repeated cases of torture, rape, and killings of Indigenous people in and around World Heritage Sites. More >>
