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Major fall in global food prices for July, but future supply worries remain

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Food prices dropped significantly in July, marking the fifth consecutive monthly decline since hitting record highs earlier in the year in the wake of the war in Ukraine, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) reported on Friday. 
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Unprecedented global challenges are ‘not insurmountable’ – UN chief

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Nearly a year ago, the UN chief released his report, Our Common Agenda (OCA), a blueprint for global cooperation moving forward, and reinvigorated multilateralism. On Thursday, he updated the General Assembly on progress made so far, saying the need for the report’s proposals “has only increased.”
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FIFA and UNODC wrap up year-long global programme to tackle match manipulation in football

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Vienna (Austria), 4 August 2022 – FIFA and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) concluded its first-ever international integrity education programme, designed to support all 211 member associations in their efforts...
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UNODC port security training brings results with interception of 36 radiated tortoises in Madagascar 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.
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Using the Power of Technology to Help Victims of Human Trafficking

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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...
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Guterres condemns missile strikes in the port of Odesa

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The UN Secretary-General 'unequivocally' condemned the reported strikes in the port of Odesa this Saturday.
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Mega-drought, glacier melt, and deforestation plague Latin America and the Caribbean

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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.
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WMO warns of frequent heatwaves in decades ahead

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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.
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UN summit galvanizes action for development agendas in Africa

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

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

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

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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”
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Nigeria: New UN resilience project

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Nigeria: New UN resilience project paves ‘pathway to peace and sustainable development’
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Champion young people as ‘drivers of change’, UN chief urges

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

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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.
Europe

Ukraine: Guterres condemns deadly missile attack on Vinnytsia

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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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Peru and UNODC expand the container control program in seaports

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Piura (Peru), July 13, 2022 — Approximately 90% of world trade is carried out through maritime containers, of which more than 780 million are delivered annually in the trade supply chain. Of this amount,...
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