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European Bishops call for a more caring financial system – Vatican News
The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union publishes a Reflection Paper on financial ethics in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis
Year: 2021
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UNODC launches Synthetic Drug Strategy to prevent global crisis
Vienna (Austria), 19 November 2021 – In response to the rapidly-growing problem of synthetic drugs around the world, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today launched a…
America
Inaugural GlobE Network meeting connects frontline anti-corruption officials from across the world
19 November 2021 – Members of the GlobE Network gathered in Vienna this week during the first-ever annual meeting of the UN’s newest informal cross-border cooperation mechanism designed exclusively to…
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Safe sanitation for all benefits people and the planet: UN chief
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged countries to keep their promise to leave no one behind and deliver health and sanitation to all.
Institutions
Will the UN Human Rights Council “sacrifice” or silence Civil Society?
A number of civil society organizations are voicing out their concerns that the so-called "efficiency" process of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) seems to be going in a…
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Vatican calls for joining forces to stop fishers’ rights violations – Vatican News
Cardinal Peter Turkson, the prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development releases a message for World Fisheries Day, which will be observed on Sunday, 21 November.
Europe
Remembering those who have lost their lives on roads across the WHO European Region
In a world focused on COVID-19 and balancing appropriate national responses to a global threat, this Sunday gives pause to an ever-growing group of people. To those families who have…
News
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Speaks on Love and Compassion in the Context of Disaster Management
Maj. Gen. Manoj Kumar Bindal, Executive Director of the National Institute of Disaster Management, India, welcoming His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the start of the online program on Compassion…
International
Who cares about toilets?
Because 3.6 billion people don’t have one! Nearly half the world’s population lives without a “safely managed sanitation service”: a toilet, not shared with other households, that either treats or…
America
World Children’s Day: Joint Statement by the European Commission and the High Representative
Ahead of World Children's Day on 20 November, the European Commission and the High Representative made the following statement: “Today, the world is home to the largest generation of young…