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Lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines should be considered “global public goods”, the UN chief told journalists on Friday, covering the G7 Summit of leading industrialized nations taking place in the United Kingdom.              ... Read more... June 12, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

‘We are losing ground in the fight against child labour,’ the United Nations Children’s Fund warns.                                         ... Read more... June 11, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

UN says people fleeing military’s ‘brutal, indiscriminate attacks’ in eastern Kayah are in dire need of food and water. A United Nations rights expert has warned of “mass deaths from starvation, disease and exposure” in eastern... Read more... June 9, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners are working to restore water supply to roughly 200,000 people, including some 100,000 children, affected by the volcanic eruption last month in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of... Read more... June 8, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

The United Nations Country Team in Myanmar reiterated its call for an end to violence against civilians, amid reports of dozens of deaths in the latest crackdown on protests against the military takeover. More than 80 people lost their... Read more... April 12, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Speaking at the UN General Assembly high-level panel on the human rights situation in Syria on Tuesday, India’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador K Nagaraj Naidu said India continues to stand with the people... Read more... March 3, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

The United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) has called on the military in Myanmar to end harassment and intimidation of workers, and ensure that they can exercise their rights to freedom of expression, in a climate... Read more... February 24, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Guterres demands Myanmar military free prisoners and end violence, as he opens a four-week summit on human rights. The UN’s top human rights body has opened its first and highest-level meeting of 2021, amid growing concerns... Read more... February 22, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Guinean health authorities have declared an outbreak of Ebola in a rural community in the south of the country, with at least seven people infected, three of whom died, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed... Read more... February 15, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Pakistan downgraded its diplomatic relations with India and expelled the Indian high commissioner following the revocation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir on August 5. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said it is “absolutely essential”... Read more... January 29, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments