Mali site added to List of World Heritage in Danger – UNESCO
The Committee that establishes the locations that are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, has today added the Old Towns of Djenné in Mali to the List of World Heritage in Danger, due to insecurity, which is affecting the area and preventing the implementation of protective measures for the site.
South Sudan: UN supply warehouse looted; non-critical UN staff ordered to relocate
The United Nations has ordered the temporary relocation of some non-critical staff from Juba, South Sudan, due to the operational challenges caused by the recent fighting there. Meanwhile, the main warehouse in the city run by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), which had held one-month worth of life-saving food and nutrition supplies for […]
Warning against ‘cherry-picking’ among Global Goals, UN experts say human rights cannot be ignored
The largest group of rights experts in the United Nations system stressed today that focus on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development should in no way become “the perfect excuse” for Member States to give less priority to their binding human rights obligations, or to ignore the comprehensive protection that is at the core of […]
UN launches ‘Sendai Seven’ campaign aimed at boosting disaster risk management
The United Nations envoy dealing with disaster risk reduction today launched a new multi-year campaign that aims to reduce disaster losses, improve management of disaster risk, and save lives. “Despite many successes there are still far too many lives being lost in predictable events because of failures to deploy early warning systems, learn lessons from […]