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COVID-19 can spark new generation of social protection measures: UN chief

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While COVID-19 has wiped out important development gains in mere months, with extreme poverty rising for the first time in decades, the pandemic could spark the transformations needed to achieve stronger social protection systems, the UN Secretary-General said on Tuesday.  
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Address water scarcity ‘immediately and boldly’, urges UN agriculture agency chief 

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More than three billion people live in agricultural areas with high levels of water shortages and scarcity, the UN agriculture agency said in a new report launched on Wednesday. 
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‘Foundational and necessary change’ needed to heal post-COVID world

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With the COVID-19 pandemic precipitating one of the world’s worst health, socioeconomic and humanitarian crises in over a century, the UN chief told a high-level discussion on Tuesday to seize the opportunity “to make real, foundational, and necessary change”. 
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This World Children’s Day, ‘reimagine a better future’, for every child

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The global community is marking World Children’s Day on Friday, calling for societies to “reimagine a better future” for every child, where each one has the opportunity to thrive. 
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Development funding and trade transparency needed, to stop COVID-19 dividing the world

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The pandemic has redefined the world economy in ways that will deepen inequality and can only be reversed if a global transformation in attitudes towards trade and development allows the whole world to recover together, the UN trade body UNCTAD said, in a report published on Thursday. 
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Backed by space technology, Asia-Pacific countries power sustainable development

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Asian and Pacific nations are increasingly leveraging space technology and geospatial information to respond to challenges on the ground, including in their efforts to contain the spread and mitigate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new United Nations report. 
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COVID disruption will ‘pale in comparison’ if world fails to act on climate change, SDGs

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The fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement and the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “go hand in hand”, the UN chief told a major development bank conference on Thursday.
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WHO’s Tedros says it is time for the world to heal, pushing back on ‘misguided nationalism’ 

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World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told Member States on Monday that efforts to tackle climate change and poverty had been set back by a lack of global unity since major agreements were struck five years ago, and welcomed the chance to work with the presumptive new US administration of president-elect Joe Biden.
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Religious liberty endangered by French Draft Law Against “Separatism”

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Religious liberty endangered by French Draft Law Against “Separatism”
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Macron gets a request from NGOs around the world to have his anti-separatism bill reviewed by Venice Commission

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Macron gets a request from NGOs around the world to have his anti-separatism bill reviewed by Venice Commission
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Sustainable urbanization critical to COVID-19 recovery, better quality of life

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Cities will be critical for the world to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and the worst recession for decades, according to the latest report published by UN-Habitat, the UN agency working on urban issues. 
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Millions affected as devastating typhoon strikes Viet Nam

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Millions affected as devastating typhoon strikes Viet Nam
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World Cities Day: Value communities, today and for the future

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Top UN officials have highlighted the “extraordinary” contributions of grassroots communities in towns and cities across the world in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, and urged that their unique efforts be built on, during recovery.
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UN builds momentum for restoring forests as world enters key decade for ecosystems 

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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is leading a push for the world to scale up efforts to restore landscapes and forests over the next decade, with eyes on a target to salvage 350 million hectares of degraded and deforested lands, an area bigger than India in total. 
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2020 Climate Action Award winners shine ray of hope

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In a year that has cast darkness upon many, the 2020 UN Global Climate Action Awards, announced on Tuesday, shone a light on the positive action that many across the globe are taking, to combat climate change.
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Africa climate change report reveals heat rising north and south, Sahel getting wetter

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Africa needs to prepare better for climate change by responding to a wide range of potential risks, a multi-agency report led by the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday, the first in a series of continent-by-continent assessments.
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Regions request support from the EU and demand to have a voice in Brussels, with “Sign it Europe”

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Regions request support from the EU and demand to have a voice in Brussels, with "Sign it Europe"
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Climate action: UN chief encouraged by Japan’s 2050 net zero pledge 

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed Japan’s announcement on Monday that it would reduce carbon emissions to zero, by 2050, as part of the global effort to slow the worldwide rise in temperatures, and prevent the most damaging effects of human-made climate change. 
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LIVE: World Food Day

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LIVE: World Food Day
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Social protection coverage in Asia and the Pacific ‘riddled with gaps’

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More than half the population of the vast Asia and Pacific region lack any social protection coverage, leaving populations vulnerable to ill-health, poverty, inequality and social exclusion, a new UN report has found. 
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Stand in solidarity with world’s poor, UN chief says in message for International Day

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The UN Secretary-General has called for solidarity with all people living in poverty, during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. 
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UN chief announces major push to transform harmful food systems

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The UN chief António Guterres set out a new plan to transform the world’s food systems on Monday - coinciding with the start of World Food Week - which will culminate in a major summit, scheduled to take place in September next year.
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‘Staggering’ rise in climate emergencies in last 20 years, new disaster research shows

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The first 20 years of this century have seen a “staggering” rise in climate disasters, UN researchers said on Monday, while also maintaining that “almost all nations” have failed to prevent a “wave of death and illness” caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. 
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Harness ‘transformative potential’ of urbanization for people and planet

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Commemorating World Habitat Day, top UN officials on Monday called for urgent action to provide low-income families and vulnerable populations more secure affordable housing and easy access to water, sanitation, transport and other basic services. 
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ECHR grants an interim measure in the case of Armenia v. Azerbaijan

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On 29 September 2020, taking the view that the current situation gives rise to a risk of serious violations of the Convention, the European Court of Human Rights (sitting as a Chamber of seven...
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