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September 09, 2021
Parliamentary summit on counter-terrorism opens in Vienna
GENEVA — While 80 percent of citizens in high and upper-middle income nations have had a dose of COVID-19 vaccine, that figure stands at just 20 percent for those living below the top tiers, according to a joint statement issued by UN and partner agencies, responsible for the multilateral COVAX initiative to provide equal access for all.It’s a year since the innovative scheme was born, in a bid to guarantee timely access to everyone, regardless of their income, status or location, to life-saving jabs, as the pandemic gripped the world.“Yet, the global picture of access to COVID-19 vaccines is unacceptable”, said the statement released on Wednesday.“In the critical months during which COVAX was created, signed on participants, pooled demand, and raised enough money to make advance...
September 09, 2021
‘Unacceptable’ deals and delays, hampering lifesaving COVAX deliveries
September 08, 2021
2015 terrorist attacks trial begins in Paris
September 08, 2021
EU to evaluate new Afghan government before engaging with it
September 08, 2021
NATO urges Taliban to make good on commitments
September 08, 2021
Good news for the ocean as tuna species bounce back from the brink of extinction
September 08, 2021
EU blasts new Taliban-formed government as neither 'inclusive nor representative'
GENEVA — Many extreme environmental events have a devastating effect on people’s lives, and a new UN report reveals that many of them are linked by the same underlying causes. On the day the study is released, we look at the impact of a locust swarm on a Kenyan farmer, and the ways that Cyclone Amphan affected an Indian worker.The huge locust swarm which hit the Horn of Africa in the Spring of 2020, and Cyclone Amphan, which struck the border region of India and Bangladesh in May that year, might not seem, on the face of it, to be connected, but a report released on Wednesday by UN University, the academic and research arm of the UN, shows that there were connected underlying causes: greenhouse gas emissions from human activity, which are affecting the environment in unpredictable...
September 08, 2021
From locusts to cyclones: The human cost of interlinked disasters
GENEVA — The Security Council cannot fail the women and girls of Afghanistan, former President of Ireland Mary Robinson warned on Tuesday, as she reminded its 15 members of the relentless work carried out over nearly 20 years to secure their rights through constitutional, legislative and policy changes.“Women’s rights are not Western rights”, she said, addressing the Council in her role as Chairperson of The Elders, a group of global leaders working for peace and justice across the world, founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007. “They are fundamental human rights, which women had reclaimed in accordance with their cultural values.”Afghan women’s participation in society ‘non-negotiable’ Robinson, also the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, called on China and the...
September 08, 2021
Security Council must not fail women, girls of Afghanistan, Elders warn
September 07, 2021
IAEA says Iran pressing on with uranium enrichment
