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Council of Europe

Council of Europe: The battle for human rights in mental health continues

Torsten Hjelmar -
The decision-making body of the Council has started its review process of a controversial drafted text that aim at protecting human rights and dignity of persons who are subjected to coercive measures in psychiatry....
Defense

The EU must protect all children fleeing the war

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MEPs call for safe passage for children fleeing war in Ukraine, as well as help for IDPs and those unable to leave the surrounding areas With 509 votes in favor, 3 against and 47 abstentions,...
News

‘Decisive steps’ needed to keep boys in school – UNESCO report

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The report highlights a global phenomenon: Harsh discipline, corporal punishment, and other forms of violence at school; "we need to take decisive steps to keep boys in school and support them throughout their education”
Europe

UN General Assembly votes to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council

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The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Thursday calling for Russia to be suspended from the Human Rights Council. 
Europe

Ukraine: UN relief chief joins call for probe after ‘horrifying’ visit to Bucha

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The UN’s top humanitarian official has joined the call for an investigation into the killing of hundreds of civilians in Bucha, Ukraine, following a visit to the city on Thursday. 
European Council

European Network of Ombudspersons for Children

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In 2006 the European Commission issued the document "Towards an EU strategy on the rights of the child", which gives a new impetus to children's rights on the agenda in the European Union, and...
News

Scale-up action to combat child malnutrition in Africa’s Sahel

United Nations News -
An estimated 6.3 million children under five, in six countries in Africa’s Sahel region, will suffer from malnutrition this year, UN agencies and their partners warned in a publication issued on Wednesday.
Food

Italy wants to protect espresso at UNESCO

Gaston de Persigny -
The country is applying not for the coffee itself, but for its drinking culture in Italy Italian coffee has long gained legendary status, and the culture of Italian espresso drinking may soon become a UNESCO...
Editor's choice

Justice and reparations still critical, 30 years on from Sarajevo siege

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Thirty years after the siege of Sarajevo, the UN team in Bosnia and Herzegovina reiterated the importance on Wednesday of pursuing justice and reparation for victims, survivors and their family members.
News

Sport must show leadership amidst climate crisis: UN deputy chief

United Nations News -
Athletes are among the most influential people on the planet and together with their managers, fans and others involved in organized sport, must contribute to global efforts to combat climate change. 
Europe

What can the UN do? 5 of your questions answered

Newsroom -
The current war in Ukraine, following the Russian invasion, has sparked all sorts of questions about the United Nations, particularly the role of the Security Council, the General Assembly and the Secretary-General.
Europe

Ukraine’s President calls on Security Council to act for peace, or ‘dissolve’ itself

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In an impassioned address to the Security Council that evoked the ashen destruction wrought during the Second World War, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday described in stark detail what he said was the deliberate slaughter of civilians in Bucha by Russian forces, laying out an existential choice for its members, over the whole future of the world’s security architecture, founded in 1945.
Environment

UN climate report: It’s ‘now or never’ to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees

United Nations News -
Reacting to the latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN Secretary-General insisted that unless governments everywhere reassess their energy policies, the world will be uninhabitable.
Europe

Bucha killings raise ‘serious’ questions about possible war crimes: Bachelet

United Nations News -
Senior UN officials have echoed the Secretary-General’s call for an independent investigation into the killing of scores of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.
News

UNODC Executive Director visits the frontlines of the Asia-Pacific drug trade

Newsdesk -
© UNODC Chiang Rai (Thailand), 4 April 2022 – The so-called Golden Triangle area, bordering Myanmar, Thailand and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, has historically been a centre of Southeast Asia’s illicit drug economy. In...
Human Rights

Interview: Slave trade reparations ‘essential’

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400th anniversary of the first ship that brought the first Africans to the British colony of Virginia. We mark that as the real beginning slave trade in America in the original 13 colonies that would form the United States.
Europe

UN rights experts raise alarm over Russia’s ‘choking’ media clampdown at home

Newsroom -
The recent adoption by Russia of a punitive “fake war news” law is an alarming move by the Government to gag and blindfold the media and the entire population
Europe

Ukraine: UN Secretary-General calls for probe into Bucha killings

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday called for an independent investigation into the killing of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, a suburb of the capital, Kyiv.
Council of Europe

Russia ceases to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022

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Following its expulsion from the Council of Europe on 16 March 2022, the Russian Federation will cease to be a High Contracting Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022. This was confirmed today in...
Europe

First Person: ‘I fear I will never see my husband again’

Newsroom -
Nataliia Vladimirova fled her home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on the first day of the Russian invasion, on 24 February, with her four-year-old daughter Oleksandra and mother-in-law. They are amongst the thousands of Ukrainian refugees with temporary protection status in Portugal. She shares her heart-wrenching story of family separation and loss, with UN News.
Europe

Ukraine: Second UN convoy reaches Sumy, Mariupol access thwarted

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UN humanitarian agencies and partners on the ground in Ukraine, were able to reach the town of Sumy, in the country’s northeast on Thursday, but access to the besieged and stricken city of Mariupol, where thousands of civilians are believed to have died amidst the brutal Russian bombardment, has yet to be given.
Europe

Ukraine war: Russia used cluster weapons at least 24 times, says UN’s Bachelet

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Credible reports indicate that Russian armed forces have used cluster munitions in populated areas of Ukraine, at least two dozen times since they invaded on 24 February, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday.
Europe

Ukraine: UNESCO’s response to children’s education needs

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Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, more than 4 million people have fled the country - two million of them, are children. As the UN agency mandated to coordinate and lead on global education, UNESCO is carefully mapping exactly how host countries are supporting and providing education, to help keep young Ukrainian refugees on track - their lives totally upended in a matter of weeks.
News

A new Regional Programme for Southeast Asia and the Pacific takes form for 2022–2026

Newsdesk -
© UNODC Bangkok (Thailand), 30 March 2022 – Transnational organized crime and illicit trafficking continue expanding in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, threatening the health, livelihoods and security of communities. Inequalities within the region continue...
Europe

‘Difficult months ahead’ in Ukraine, as deaths rise, along with global shortages

Newsroom -
At least 1,100 civilians have been killed in a month of fighting in Ukraine, a senior UN humanitarian official told the Security Council on Tuesday, stressing that the conflict “shows no signs of abating.”
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