The 2023 UN SDG Action Awards will be presented in Rome, Italy, in July, and the deadline for applications and nominations has been extended to 7 May. “We are calling on all activists, mobilizers, and changemakers to submit their application today for a chance to become an awards finalist and to join us in Rome…
Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Abdou Dieng, speaking from Port Sudan, told reporters in the briefing room in New York that senior leadership would be returning to the Sudanese capital, as soon as the situation allows. The needs are urgent, and widespread, he said, as the final few hours of a US-brokered 72-hour ceasefire neared, with…
“We are at a potentially important juncture, with renewed attention on Syria – particularly from the region – that could assist our efforts in advancing a political solution to this conflict”, he said. “But for this renewed attention to help unlock progress, many actors will need to take concrete steps – not just one set…
The resolution passed unanimously by the 15-member body in New York, calls for the “full, equal, meaningful and safe participation of women and girls in Afghanistan”, and urges all countries and organisations with influence on the fundamentalist rulers of the country, “to promote an urgent reversal” of policies which have in effect erased women from public…
“Hundreds of thousands of Tibetans have reportedly been ‘transferred’ from their traditional rural lives to low-skilled and low-paid employment since 2015, through a programme described as voluntary, but in practice their participation has reportedly been coerced,” they said in a statement. ‘Cultural and political indoctrination’ They noted that the labour transfer programme is facilitated by…
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called the Public Order Bill “deeply troubling legislation”, after it completed its passage through parliament on Wednesday. “It is especially worrying that the law expands the powers of the police to stop and search individuals, including without suspicion; defines some of the new criminal offences in a…
UN Special Representative and head of the UN Interim Administration Mission, Caroline Ziadeh, told ambassadors that the most recent Secretary-General’s report on developments in Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008 but is not recognized by Serbia, “included serious challenges as well as an important collective effort to bring Belgrade-Pristina relations nearer to stability and normalisation.”…
The groom was sentenced to 6 months and the bride to 7 months; Photo: File Singapore City: In Singapore, a senior citizen who arranged a fake marriage with his niece to get his friend’s citizenship was sentenced to 6 months in jail. According to Indian media, 73-year-old Indian-origin Miran Ghani married his 58-year-old Singaporean niece…
Tehran: The representative of Iran’s Supreme Commander Ayatollah Khamenei and well-known religious scholar Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani was killed. According to the details, the representative of Iran’s Supreme Commander Ayatollah Khamenei and a powerful and scholarly Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani were killed in the assassination attack. Iran’s official media say that 75-year-old Ayatollah Abbas Ali…
57 people drowned after two migrant boats sank off the coast of Libya. At least 57 people died after two boats capsized in two different locations in the Mediterranean Sea, rescue workers said, according to the Lebanese Coast Guard. The coast guard officer said that the bodies of 11 people, including a child, have been…
