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.
Der Newsticker informiert über aktuelle Ereignisse zum Thema Menschenrechte.
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Myanmar: Three million in urgent need of life-saving assistance, protection
UN News Oct 19, 2021 | 22:46 pmThe UN Country Team in Myanmar remains “deeply concerned over the humanitarian impact” of the country’s ongoing crises stemming largely from the military coup in February, the UN Spokesperson said on Tuesday.
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UNHCR responding to worst flooding in decades in South Sudan
UN News Oct 19, 2021 | 21:52 pmThe UN refugee agency, UNHCR, is supporting the Government of South Sudan in assisting people hit hard by the worst flooding there in decades.
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Build consensus or face ‘increasingly desperate reality’, warns Middle East envoy
UN News Oct 19, 2021 | 18:57 pmPolitical stagnation is “fuelling tensions, instability and a deepening sense of hopelessness”, the top UN official working towards peace in the Middle East warned the Security Council on Tuesday.
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Yemen war reaches ‘shameful milestone’ - 10,000 children now killed or maimed
UN News Oct 19, 2021 | 18:47 pmAnother “shameful milestone” has been reached in the conflict in Yemen with 10,000 children killed or maimed since fighting started in March 2015, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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Over-compliance with US sanctions hurting Iran’s ‘butterfly kids’
UN News Oct 19, 2021 | 18:06 pmOver-compliance with United States-imposed sanctions against Iran is harming the right to health, and people with a rare skin disease are among those affected, many of them children, experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council said on Tuesday.
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Business leaders join UN chief to step up action for sustainability
UN News Oct 19, 2021 | 17:49 pmBusiness leaders joined UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday, to step up delivery of critical investment, for a ‘sustainable, net zero, resilient and equitable world’.
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In highly uneven recovery, global investment flows rebound
UN News Oct 19, 2021 | 17:34 pmAfter a big drop last year caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, global foreign direct investment (FDI) reached an estimated $852 billion in the first half of 2021, showing a stronger than expected rebound.
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UN-backed report reveals rising climate change risk across Africa
UN News Oct 19, 2021 | 09:45 amClimate change contributed to mounting food insecurity, poverty and displacement in Africa last year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and partners said in a report published on Tuesday.
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‘Sexism and misogyny’ heightened; women’s freedoms supressed
UN News Oct 18, 2021 | 23:03 pmGender-based violence, hate speech and disinformation are being used extensively online and offline, to chill or kill women’s freedom of expression, an independent UN human rights expert told the General Assembly on Monday.
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UN chief ‘deeply concerned’ at reported air strikes on Tigray capital
UN News Oct 18, 2021 | 22:07 pmThe United Nations has received alarming reports of aerial attacks in the residential areas of Tigray’s capital, Mekelle, on Monday morning local time.
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