UN News/Daniel Johnson – Michele Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. (file) The flow of free information is “crucial” in a democratic society, the UN human rights chief said on Wednesday, spotlighting the landlocked eastern European nation of Belarus, “especially in a context of crisis and social unrest”. Following the announcement by the […]
Month: August 2020
Pandemic ‘inflicting multiple shocks’ on the young, threatens entire generation
IOM/Benjamin Suomela One in six youth have had to stop working since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an ILO report released 11 August 2020. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, more than 70 per cent of students have been shut out of schools, universities and training centres, according to a new report issued […]
UNAA joins call to PM to use the SDGs as roadwork to recovery
UNAA has joined with a group of Australian businesses, industry groups, universities and civil society organisations to call on the Federal Government to use the UN SDGs framework to guide policies designed to drive recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Co-ordinated by the Global Compact Network Australia, a letter sent to PM Scott Morrison today says […]
Becoming a First Nations ally in an inclusive ‘new normal’ world
“I’d like to begin by acknowledging the Traditional Owners of the land on which we meet today. I would also like to pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging.” These two sentences hold power and have become a key component of both formal and informal gatherings across modern Australia. An Acknowledgement of Country […]
‘Immediate humanitarian assistance’ mobilized in force, to support Beirut after deadly blast
UN/Pasqual Gorriz – A UNIFIL Force Commander Reserve team assesses the magnitude of an explosion on Tuesday, 4 August 2020 at Beirut Port. Lebanon. The response to Tuesday’s explosion in Beirut requires global support in order to “surmount the devastating impact” of the crisis facing the Lebanese people, the UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the […]
75 years after the bomb, Hiroshima still chooses ‘reconciliation and hope’
UN Photo/Eluchi Matsumoto – There was widespread destruction in Hiroshima as a result of the nuclear bomb which was dropped on the Japanese city in August 1945. In a video message delivered to a Peace Memorial Ceremony in Japan on Thursday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has paid tribute to the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which devastated the […]