Newsletter from UN human rights organisation
Die Menschenrechte im Rahmen der Vereinten Nationen (UNO)
Bereits die Charta der Vereinten Nationen von 1945 enthält den klaren Auftrag an die Staatengemeinschaft, die Achtung und Verwirklichung der Menschenrechte und Grundrechte für alle zu fördern. Der Grundstein für den internationalen Schutz der Menschenrechte wurde mit der 1948 verabschiedeten Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte gelegt.
Der Newsticker informiert über aktuelle Ereignisse zum Thema Menschenrechte.
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Homicide a bigger killer than armed conflict and terrorism combined
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Dec 8, 2023 | 13:00 pmMore people were killed due to homicide than armed conflict and terrorism combined in 2021, with an average of 52 lives lost per hour worldwide, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a report published on Friday.
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Gaza humanitarian disaster heralds 'breakdown' of society
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Dec 8, 2023 | 13:00 pmAs intense Israeli bombardment of Gaza and fighting with Palestinian armed groups continued to impede aid operations, reports on the ground of children begging for water and people cutting down telephone poles for firewood indicated that “society is about to[…]
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Our voices and needs must be put first in climate talks, young people tell COP28
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Dec 8, 2023 | 13:00 pmYoung climate advocates at COP28 in Dubai on Friday said they will not sit idly by while climate change threatens their futures. They said their voices and ideas can help rescue the planet and demanded that government policymakers put the[…]
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US vetoes resolution on Gaza which called for ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire’
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Dec 8, 2023 | 13:00 pmThe UN Security Council held an emergency meeting Friday morning New York time to discuss the catastrophic situation in Gaza. This follows Wednesday’s urgent letter by Secretary-General António Guterres – one of the most powerful tools at his disposal –[…]
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Stories of courage and dedication: Humanitarians on Gaza’s front line
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Dec 8, 2023 | 13:00 pmAmid ongoing bombardment in the Gaza Strip, UN agencies and humanitarian partners continue to provide desperately needed food, water, healthcare and other services to the more than two million people living there.
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World News in Brief: Haiti’s humanitarian crisis, disease outbreaks in Sudan, UK sentencing reform
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Dec 8, 2023 | 13:00 pmAs Haiti faces a situation of “absolute brutal violence”, the deployment of a multi-national security support mission is awaited with hope, the UN’s top humanitarian official in the country said on Friday.
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Fighting engulfs over two-thirds of Myanmar, fuelling humanitarian needs
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Dec 8, 2023 | 13:00 pmOver half a million people have been displaced in Myanmar amid a surge in fighting between the military and armed groups that stated in late October and has spread to over two-thirds of the country, the UN humanitarian affairs office[…]
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World News in Brief: Russia’s LGBT ban condemned, unprecedented Africa malnutrition crisis, health after childbirth
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Dec 7, 2023 | 13:00 pmUN independent human rights experts on Thursday raised concerns about the “dangerous precedent and far-reaching negative consequences” of Russia’s Supreme Court decision declaring the “international LGBT movement and its structural units” as “extremist”.
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Do’s and don’ts for tackling chronic back pain
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Dec 7, 2023 | 13:00 pmThe UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday released its first-ever guidelines on managing chronic low back pain - the leading cause of disability worldwide, that effects an astonishing one in 13 of us.
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COP28 in Dubai enters final week, negotiations ramp up on emissions cuts, fossil fuels
UN News - Global perspective Human stories Dec 7, 2023 | 13:00 pmAfter a break, COP28 continues its work on Friday, also the day talks on an outcome text kick into high gear. Negotiators are aiming to agree on how to bolster emissions-cutting targets set by the Paris Agreement and what to[…]
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