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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Child malnutrition expected to quadruple in Southern Madagascar
UN News Jul 26, 2021 | 23:38 pmAt least half a million children under five in drought-afflicted southern Madagascar are on the verge of acute malnourishment, two UN agencies warned on Monday.
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Outstanding sites added to UNESCO World Heritage List
UN News Jul 26, 2021 | 23:20 pmAn ancient temple in India and a “cultural landscape” in Spain have become two of the latest sites to be registered on the UN’s prestigious World Heritage List.
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Free, fair Palestinian elections, must include East Jerusalem: UN experts
UN News Jul 26, 2021 | 21:50 pmLandmark elections in the Occupied Palestinian territory must be rescheduled soon and include East Jerusalem, three UN independent human rights experts said in a statement on Monday.
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UN climate science talks open amid heatwaves, floods and drought
UN News Jul 26, 2021 | 19:17 pmNegotiations began on Monday to approve a UN science report which will anchor high level summits later this year, charged with boosting climate action worldwide.
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Support mangrove conservation, UNESCO chief says
UN News Jul 26, 2021 | 19:04 pmThe world is waking up to the importance of mangroves, a senior UN official said on Monday, underscoring the need for everyone to support restoration and protection of these crucial habitats.
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Together, we must tackle growing hunger, urges Guterres
UN News Jul 26, 2021 | 17:19 pmInefficient global food production is at the root of a huge rise in hunger as well as one-third of all emissions and 80 per cent of biodiversity loss, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned, in a call to all countries to transform[…]
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Afghanistan: Record number of women and children killed or wounded
UN News Jul 26, 2021 | 16:31 pmMore women and children were killed and wounded in Afghanistan in the first half of 2021 than in the first six months of any year since records began in 2009, a United Nations report revealed on Monday.
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No pathway to reach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5˚C goal without the G20: UN chief
UN News Jul 25, 2021 | 17:13 pm“The world urgently needs a clear and unambiguous commitment to the 1.5 degree goal of the Paris Agreement from all G20 nations”, António Guterres said on Sunday after the Group failed to agree on the wording of key climate change[…]
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‘Lack of global solidarity’, slow vaccination rates put Indonesia in COVID glare
UN News Jul 24, 2021 | 18:30 pmA “lack of global solidarity” including the hoarding of vaccines by richer nations as well as slow vaccination rate has contributed to Indonesia becoming the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak in Asia, according to the UN’s top official in the[…]
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Farmers the ‘lifeblood of our food systems’, deputy UN chief highlights, ahead of key summit
UN News Jul 24, 2021 | 17:25 pmFarmers, especially women and indigenous people, work tirelessly to put food on our tables. UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed met on Saturday women producers at a farmers’ market in Circo Massimo, Rome, ahead of the Food Systems Pre-Summit taking place next[…]
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