OCHA/Gema CortesDoctors and nurses have been raising awareness about COVID-19 during a house-to-house campaign in the Cuaricao neighbourhood of Caracas, Venezuela. The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) heard strong appeals on Tuesday for more funds to be steered into the UN’s COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan, as it opened its annual Humanitarian Affairs Segment – […]
Month: June 2020
Arrest of Sudanese war crimes suspect ‘extremely significant’: UN rights chief
UN News/Daniel DickinsonA warrant for the arrest of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb, was issued by the ICC in 2007. The arrest of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd–Al-Rahman, commonly known as Ali Kushayb, an alleged former Janjaweed militia leader in the restive Darfur region of Sudan, has been hailed by the UN […]
Coronavirus: World Bank confirms deepest recession since World War Two
UNDP Eurasia/Karen CirilloThe coronavirus outbreak has had a severe impact on economies across the world. The COVID-19 pandemic will shrink the global economy by 5.2 per cent this year, representing the deepest recession since World War Two, and triggering a dramatic rise in extreme poverty, the World Bank said Monday in its latest Global Economic Prospects report. In rich countries, economic […]
May confirmed as warmest on record, CO2 levels hit new high despite COVID economic slowdown
WMO/Tapio NiemiLate September sunrise as seen from Paalijärvi observation tower in Alajärvi, Finland. May 2020, was the warmest on record, UN weather agency WMO has confirmed. Last month was the warmest May on record and carbon dioxide levels also hit a new high despite the economic slowdown from COVID-19, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said […]
UNICEF condemns in ‘strongest possible terms’ killing of children in DR Congo
UNICEF/MadjiangarInterethnic violence has ravaged the Ituri Province in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and forced significant numbers of people to flee for safety. UNICEF denounced on Saturday, an attack that killed 16 people, including five girls under age 15, in north eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). “We condemn in […]
What our oceans can teach us in our world’s post-COVID recovery
Geography classes at school have likely taught you that there are five oceans on Earth. That said, if you grab a globe and try to determine where one ocean ends and another begins, you will quickly realise there is essentially one big body of water covering over 70 percent of our planet. Monday 8th June […]