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20 years of UN Firearms Protocol and Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) shed light on way forward

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Vienna (Austria), 9 August 2021 – As 2021 marks the 20th Anniversary of the UN Firearms Protocol and the Programme of Action (PoA) on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), UNODC, jointly with the...
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Munich condemned by Bavarian Admin Court for discriminating a member of Scientology

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The City is now obliged to grant an eBike to a member of this Church. According to the court, the German Constitution protects Scientologists - Practice of the City of Munich violates religious freedom and...
Economy

UNODC and Siemens AG strengthen partnership for business integrity

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Vienna (Austria), 2 August 2021 - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Siemens AG signed a funding agreement worth US$ 4 million to strengthen business integrity. The sum represents the largest...
Europe

“Victims´ Voices Lead the Way”: Karly Church

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Karly had just arrived in a new city, she was homeless. She had no family or social support system and battled a serious drug addiction. This is when she met her traffickers. “They took...
Food

Farmers the ‘lifeblood of our food systems’, deputy UN chief highlights, ahead of key summit

Farmers, especially women and indigenous people, work tirelessly to put food on our tables. UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed met on Saturday women producers at a farmers’ market in Circo Massimo, Rome, ahead of the Food Systems Pre-Summit taking place next week.
International

A truck full of coffee instead of opium – UNODC helps farmers in Lao PDR with alternative livelihoods

23 July 2021 – A man dressed in a purple silk shirt is inspecting a truck about to leave Huapanh, a North Eastern province of Lao PDR. The truck is departing an area infamous...
News

Climate finance, Fight hunger and poverty, the words ECOSOC President

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Ensuring COVID-19 vaccines for all will be critical if the world is to defeat the pandemic, the President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Munir Akram, said on Friday in his address to the closing its high-level segment.
Human Rights

FROM THE FIELD: South Sudan’s displaced youth, help power change

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Young people who were displaced by conflict in South Sudan have returned home to power change in their community.
ECHR

A third of Haiti’s children in urgent need of emergency aid: UNICEF

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Nearly a third of all children in Haiti – numbering around 1.5 million - are in urgent need of emergency relief due to rising violence, insufficient access to clean water, health and nutrition, said the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF on Friday.
Human Rights

Sustainable development report shows devastating impact of COVID, ahead of ‘critical’ new phase

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The world was not on track to meet the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) before COVID-19 struck, and now the challenge has been magnified many times over, according to a new flagship UN report that indicates countries must take ‘critical’ steps on the road out of the pandemic, during the next 18 months.
Health

Billions risk being without access to water and sanitation services by 2030 

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Without an urgent injection of cash, billions globally are at risk of still being without lifesaving access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services by 2030, according to a new UN report published on Thursday. 
Health

Social protection ‘lifeline’ during COVID, depends on where you live

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Although the COVID-19 pandemic had triggered the roll-out of an “unprecedented number” of new and often innovative social protection measures, it was unable to stem a widening gap between rich and poor countries, according to a new UN report released on Thursday.
Health

Delta variant drives Africa COVID threat to ‘whole new level´: WHO warns; ‘dominant’ in Europe by August

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With cases now doubling in Africa every three weeks, the Delta variant of COVID-19 has spread to 16 countries and it is present in three of the five nations reporting the highest caseloads. The variant is the most contagious yet - up to 60% more transmissible than other variants.
Health

COVID-19 impact on tourism could deal $4 trillion blow to global economy: UN report

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism could result in a more than $4 trillion loss to the global economy, UN trade and development body UNCTAD said on Wednesday in a report issued jointly with the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). 
Health

WHO guidance on Artificial Intelligence to improve healthcare, mitigate risks worldwide 

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds “enormous potential” for improving the health of millions around the world if ethics and human rights are at the heart of its design, deployment, and use, the head of the UN health agency said on Monday. 
Health

Governments must protect those who help torture victims, say human rights experts

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Top UN rights experts appealed on Thursday for all governments to ensure that victims of torture receive the rehabilitation services they need, along with guarantees that those who help them do not suffer reprisals.  
Health

Madagascar’s hungry ‘holding on for dear life’, WFP chief warns

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Thousands of families in southern Madagascar are on the edge of starvation, and “holding on for dear life”, the UN food agency chief said on Wednesday - after bearing witness to the suffering firsthand - urging the world to step-up and take action.   
Health

Link between education and well-being never clearer, UN pushes for ‘health-promoting’ schools

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With school closures triggered by COVID-19 disrupting both education and access to nutritious meals, two UN agencies on Tuesday launched new measures to help improve the well-being of 1.9 billion school-aged children and adolescents around the world. 
Europe

The Netherlands is starting to pay compensation to the victims of Srebrenica

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The Netherlands is starting to pay compensation to the victims of Srebrenica
Food

Famine risk spikes amid conflict, COVID-19 and funding gaps: WFP

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Famine risk spikes amid conflict, COVID-19 and funding gaps: WFP
Europe

European Platform on Combating Homelessness: The way forward on homelessness in the EU

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While homelessness is certainly not a new phenomenon, the inequalities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic in access to housing, in physical and mental health, and in the area of work can no longer be...
Health

Five polio vaccination workers shot dead in Afghanistan; UN condemns ‘brutal’ killings

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Five health workers carrying out a polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province were killed on Tuesday, and four others injured, during a series of attacks condemned by a senior UN official on the ground as brutal and “senseless”.
Health

‘Digital dumpsites’ study highlights growing threat to children: UN health agency  

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The health of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide is at risk from the illegal processing of old electrical or electronic devices, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, in a landmark new report on the toxic threat. 
America

Domestic workers among hardest hit by COVID crisis, says UN labour agency

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Domestic workers globally have been among the hardest hit by the COVID crisis, losing more jobs and working hours than other sectors, the UN labour agency ILO said on Tuesday.
Health

COVID-19 cases drop for seventh week, but deaths fall less slowly: WHO

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The number of new COVID-19 cases reported to the UN health agency has declined for seven weeks in a row, in what the top official there called on Monday “the longest sequence of weekly declines during the pandemic so far”.
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