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Climate change will lead to annual coral bleaching, UN-supported study predicts

If current trends continue and the world fails to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, nearly all of the world’s coral reefs will suffer severe bleaching – the gravest threat to one of the Earth’s most important ecosystems – on annual basis, the United Nations environment agency today reported. The finding is part of a study funded […]

Xmas Arrangements

The UNAA Victoria office will be closed from Thursday 22 December to Monday 9 January 2017. We wish all our members, supporters and partners all the very best for the festive season and look forward to working with you all in 2017.  

Today is International Human Solidarity Day – Message of the Secretary-General

Secretary-General’s Message for 2016 The world has achieved significant progress in human development over the past two decades. The global poverty rate fell by more than half.  People are living longer and healthier lives, and are better educated. Despite these and other advances, prosperity has not been shared by all. Inequalities, extreme poverty, unemployment, social […]

Possibility of genocide in South Sudan is “all too real”, Ban warns in opinion piece

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today in an opinion piece published by Newsweek. The UN chief recalled that following decades of war, South Sudan became the world’s newest country five years ago and when he attended the 2011 independence celebrations in the capital, Juba, “hopes were high that the long-suffering people of the oil-rich country would […]

UN invited to monitor and assist fresh evacuation efforts under way in war-ravaged Aleppo

The United Nations was has been invited to monitor and assist in the renewed effort to evacuate sick and wounded civilians and opposition fighters from the remaining rebel-held areas of Syria’s war-ravaged city of Aleppo, a senior UN humanitarian envoy has announced. Following today’s meeting in Geneva of the Humanitarian Access Task Force of the […]