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UNODC port security training brings results with interception of 36 radiated tortoises in Madagascar 

Toamasina and Mahajanga (Madagascar), 3 August 2022 — radiated tortoises - 11 billion goods per year, tens of millions of people – global ports are busier than ever bringing us the items and transport...

Crime, corruption, maritime insecurity and the environment: why a criminal justice approach is necessary to protect our oceans

Lisbon (Portugal), 27 June-1 July 2022 — The ocean provides us with half of our oxygen. It is the main source of sustenance for more than one billion people. Ocean-related industries employ 40 million people, many...

Israel and Morocco, a new agreement on judicial cooperation

Israel and Morocco - In a move aimed at accelerating the pace of the normalization processes between Morocco and Israel under the "Abraham Accords", a new agreement has been signed, including "legal cooperation" between...

Ukraine: Prospects for end to war look bleak, despite ‘encouraging’ grain deal

The war in Ukraine shows no signs of ending, more than five months after the Russian invasion, and fighting is intensifying, the UN Security Council heard on Friday. 

Russian representative of FECRIS: “Russia has always been a bone in the throat of the US, UK and their satellites”

Archpriest Alexander Novopashin, Russian correspondent member of the FECRIS (European Federation of Centres for Research and Information on Sects and Cults), recently called Ukrainian “Nazis”, “Satanists” and “cannibals”. On July 20, in a lengthy...

President Metsola: “An opportunity to transform Ukraine”

Dear President Zelenskyy, Dear President Nauseda, Dear Speaker Stefanchuk, Dear Members of Verkhovna Rada, Thank you for having me with you here today. It is a privilege, but more importantly it is a responsibility for me, as the...

Top rights expert questions ‘double standard’ on Ukraine’s war displaced

A top UN-appointed human rights expert on Thursday raised the issue of an alleged “double standard” in Poland and Belarus towards those forced to flee the war in Ukraine.

Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia to Conduct First Visit in the Country

GENEVA/ADDIS ABABA (25 July 2022) – Members of the UN International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia are undertaking a visit to Ethiopia from 25 to 30 July 2022. This will be the Commission’s first visit...

15 NGOs+ send letter to Secretary Blinken to throw pro-Russian anticult organization out from United Nations

On June 2, 15 NGOs plus 33 scholars and well-known activists have written to the US Secretary of State, to ask him to start a procedure to have the UN ECOSOC’s consultative status of...

New ECOSOC President aims to ease crises which have ‘engulfed our societies’

Ambassador Lachezara Stoeva , New ECOSOC President, said in her opening statement that she was “honoured and humbled” to have been elected to lead one of the principal organs of the UN

Ukraine: UNICEF delivers life-saving supplies for over 50,000 children in Odesa

The UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, delivered supplies on Tuesday to help an estimated 50,000 children in the war-ravaged districts of Odesa, the crucial Black Sea port which Russia bombed on Saturday, just hours after signing a landmark deal to allow Ukrainian grain to reach millions of food insecure people across the world.

Using the Power of Technology to Help Victims of Human Trafficking

The theme of this year’s World Day against Trafficking in Persons is “use and abuse of technology”. Below, find examples of how technology can be harnessed to detect, rescue, and support potential or exploited...

Guterres condemns missile strikes in the port of Odesa

The UN Secretary-General 'unequivocally' condemned the reported strikes in the port of Odesa this Saturday.

Mega-drought, glacier melt, and deforestation plague Latin America and the Caribbean

From the Amazon to the Andes and the snowy depths of Patagonia, extreme weather and climate change are causing mega-drought, extreme rainfall, deforestation and glacier melt across the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region, according to a UN report published on Friday.

WMO warns of frequent heatwaves in decades ahead

Extreme heat in western Europe is causing devastating wildfires in France and Spain, unprecedented drought in Italy and Portugal, and the United Kingdom recorded its highest-ever temperature of just over 40 degrees Celsius during Tuesday, at London’s Heathrow airport.

UN summit galvanizes action for development agendas in Africa

The development of Africa was spotlighted at a key UN meeting on Wednesday, with attention focused on advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the African Union (AU) Agenda 2063.    

Cocaine Insights 4 launched with a spotlight on COVID-19 impacts on regional and transatlantic cocaine routes through Brazil

Vienna (Austria), 20 July 2022 — The global production of cocaine has reached record levels, amounting to 1,982 tons as of 2020. Trafficking routes are determined by production and consumption locations, and Brazil sits...

‘Moment for Nature’ essential to beat back threats, spur climate action

With less than eight years remaining to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the President of the UN General Assembly convened a ‘Moment for Nature’ debate on Tuesday to examine the interconnected environmental threats hampering efforts to achieve sustainable development. 

Record 40°C UK temperatures linked to climate change: WMO

The chances of seeing unprecedented temperatures of 40 degree Celsius (40°C) or more in the UK could be up to 10 times more likely in the current climate than under a “natural climate unaffected by human influence”

Poland ranked first in the EU for granting asylum to the most Ukrainians

As of May 31, 2022, Poland ranked first and Bulgaria ranked second among the EU countries in which the most Ukrainians were granted the right to asylum, according to Eurostat data. In total, as of...

Nigeria: New UN resilience project

Nigeria: New UN resilience project paves ‘pathway to peace and sustainable development’

Champion young people as ‘drivers of change’, UN chief urges

Young people must be recognized around the world as “drivers of change” and empowered to become “fully engaged in decisions affecting their future,” said Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday, World Youth Skills Day.

Key UN forum closes with ‘enthusiasm, passion and high-energy’ to reach the SDGs

Following two years of virtual meetings due to COVID-19, the 2022 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) closed on Friday at UN Headquarters in New York with delegates showing “enthusiasm, passion and high-energy” for reaching the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Europol busts a Vietnamese smuggling syndicate

Nine people were arrested With the support of Europol's European Migrant Smuggling Center (EMSC), parallel investigations in five EU Member States have broken up a criminal syndicate smuggling Vietnamese people into and through Europe. Between 20...

Ukraine: Guterres condemns deadly missile attack on Vinnytsia

The UN Secretary-General is appalled by the deadly missile attack on Vinnytsia in central Ukraine on Thursday, that reportedly killed at least 22 people
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