Presenting her latest annual report, Virginia Gamba, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, appealed for “bold and resolute action” to protect boys and girls at risk of death, recruitment, rape and other horrors. The report covers 26 situations in five regions worldwide, representing another high. Countries include Ethiopia, Mozambique and…
Ahead of the critical SDG Summit in September, the campaign will amplify an urgent call for ambitious new action, showcase the Goals as the blueprint for sustainable progress globally, and mobilize people everywhere around this shared agenda for our common future. Crisis multiplier Halfway towards the 2030 deadline, the promise of the SDGs is in danger. For…
The RTS,S vaccine has been administered to more than 1.6 million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi since 2019 and has been shown to be safe and effective. It has resulted in a substantial reduction in severe malaria and a fall in child deaths. A top killer WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said malaria remains…
The policy paper, Countering and Addressing Online Hate Speech: A Guide for Policy Makers and Practitioners, was developed jointly by the UN Office with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project, at the UK’s University of Essex. ‘Unprecedented speed’ “We have seen across the world, and time, how social media has become a…
“We have expressed concerns” over the investigation into her death, said Viviana Krsticevic, a member of the Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, speaking at a press conference in Geneva: “in particular over the fact that today her family’s right to truth and justice remains unfulfilled”. She added that the investigations had “fallen short of international human…
The agency’s emergency food and nutrition assistance operation in the Sahel began in June, focussing on refugees, newly displaced people, malnourished children under five, pregnant women and breastfeeding women and girls. © WFP/Cheick Omar Bandaogo A mother gives her 10-month-old daughter porridge in Burkina Faso in the Sahel region, where WFP is providing assistance to…
The violations include conflict-related sexual violence against internally displaced and refugee women and girls forced to flee for their lives. Agency chiefs from humanitarian coordination office OCHA, the human rights office (OHCHR), the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA), UN Women and the World…
When a man from the Indian state of Chhattisgarh got one of his wishes, he decided to sacrifice a goat, which took his own life. According to Indian media reports, a 50-year-old man named Bagar Sai from Surajpur district of Chhattisgarh got his wish and decided to sacrifice a goat. According to media reports, Bagar…
Photo, Indian media Protests were held in India over the killing of Khalistan Tiger Force chief Hardeep Singh Nagar. According to Indian media reports, Sikhs demonstrated outside the district headquarters of intelligence agency RAW in Amritsar. The report also mentions that the protestors carried posters against the secret agency RAW. The protesters have also accused…
Photo courtesy of Twitter In Chechnya, a female Russian journalist was subjected to severe torture and her hair was also cut off, after which she was taken to a hospital. According to foreign media, Elena Malashina, a journalist and human rights activist working for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was attacked while covering the verdict…
