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.
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UN values of peace, development and human rights ‘have no expiry date’
UN News Oct 22, 2021 | 02:35 amAt a celebratory concert in New York on Thursday night, marking the anniversary of the foundational UN Charter entering into force, the Secretary-General said that the “spirit of solidarity and action” that marks United Nations United Nations Day itself, is “wonderfully expressed in the power of music”.
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Madagascar: Severe drought could spur world’s first climate change famine
UN News Oct 21, 2021 | 23:07 pmMore than one million people in southern Madagascar are struggling to get enough to eat, due to what could become the first famine caused by climate change, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).
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WHO announces plan for ‘profound transformation' following sexual abuse allegations in DR Congo
UN News Oct 21, 2021 | 23:02 pmThe suffering of survivors of sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by World Health Organization staff during the tenth Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is going to be “the catalyst for a profound transformation” of WHO’s culture.
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Plastic pollution on course to double by 2030
UN News Oct 21, 2021 | 21:52 pmPlastic pollution in oceans and other bodies of water continues to grow sharply and could more than double by 2030, according to an assessment released on Thursday by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
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Women in leadership ‘must be the norm’, Security Council hears
UN News Oct 21, 2021 | 19:23 pmWe can no longer exclude half of humanity from international peace and security matters, the UN chief told the Security Council on Thursday, emphasizing the need to fully address the challenges and gaps that continue to prevent women having an[…]
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Up to 180,000 health workers may have died from COVID-19
UN News Oct 21, 2021 | 18:15 pmBetween 80,000 and 180,000 health and care workers may have died from COVID-19 between January of 2020 and May of this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
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$667 million funding call to help Afghans through economic crisis
UN News Oct 21, 2021 | 16:59 pmAfghanistan’s economy is imploding, with all but three per cent of households expected to fall below the poverty line in coming months, the UN said on Thursday.
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UN’s top envoy warns Great Lakes Region is ‘at a crossroads’
UN News Oct 20, 2021 | 21:52 pmSpeaking at a Security Council meeting on the situation in Africa’s Great Lakes region on Wednesday, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy, Huang Xia, told ambassadors that the countries concerned now stand “at a crossroads”.
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Restore sexual, reproductive health rights lost during COVID, rights expert urges
UN News Oct 20, 2021 | 21:06 pmSexual and reproductive health rights, are human rights, the independent UN expert on the right to health reminded Member States in the General Assembly on Wednesday, saying that it was essential to restore services in the field, that have been[…]
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Only ‘real equality’ can end vicious cycle of poverty
UN News Oct 20, 2021 | 19:36 pmAlthough poverty and privilege “continue to reproduce themselves in vicious cycles”, it is possible to break the chain and shift the paradigm, an independent UN human rights expert told the General Assembly on Wednesday.
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