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Montevideo, December 23rd 2024 - 10:49 UTC

Tag: UN

  • Friday, June 7th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

    The first UN World Food Safety Day to be marked on Friday 7 June

    Unsafe food also hinders development in many low- and middle-income economies, which lose around US$ 95 billion in productivity

    The first-ever celebration of the United Nations World Food Safety Day, to be marked globally on 7 June, aims to strengthen efforts to ensure that the food we eat is safe.
Every year, nearly one in ten people in the world (an estimated 600 million people) fall ill and 420,000 die after eating food contaminated by bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2019 - 23:59 UTC

    UN warns that Julian Assange would face serious violations of human rights in the US

    For the UN, Ecuador exposes Assange “to the risk of serious violations of human rights.”

    For the United Nations (UN), the United Kingdom arrested “arbitrarily” WikiLeaks’s co-founder, Julian Assange, on Thursday and warned that by allowing his arrest, Ecuador has put the Australian journalist at risk of being extradited to the United States, “Exposing him to the risk of serious violations of human rights.”

  • Saturday, March 16th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

    The climate strikers should inspire us all to act at the next UN summit

    Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations Organization

    By Antonio Guterres (*) Without ambitious action, the Paris agreement is meaningless. So I’m bringing world leaders together to build the future we need. Tens of thousands of young people took to the streets on Friday with a clear message to world leaders: act now to save our planet and our future from the climate emergency.

  • Tuesday, March 12th 2019 - 19:31 UTC

    Bachelet “concerned” about the arrest of Venezuelan journalist and activist Luis Carlos Díaz

    Díaz was missing for several hours. Neither his wife nor his colleagues knew anything about him until the SEBIN showed up with him handcuffed at home to conduct a raid

    Luis Carlos Diaz, a Venezuelan journalist who is an expert in networks and critical of the Nicolás Maduro regime, was arrested on Monday, without capture order, by the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN) after leaving his radio program, denounced his wife and colleague Naky Soto. On Tuesday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, referred to the arrest and asked the authorities for “urgent access” for her technical mission in Venezuela to Díaz.

  • Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 18:59 UTC

    World Peace devoted NGO connects states and citizens for peaceful development in Asia-Pacific

    Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW)’s agenda includes the prohibition of the use of force, development of friendly relations, and peaceful dispute settlement

    As an international NGO associated with the UN ECOSOC, Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL) works to connect states and citizens
 for peaceful development in Asia and the Pacific. Based on South Korea, where the recent scent of peace sprang out, the NGO focuses on 3 unique approaches to peacebuilding.

  • Wednesday, February 13th 2019 - 09:12 UTC

    NGOs demand Brazilian miner Vale be excluded from UN's corporate responsibility pact

    A letter signed by more than 15 NGOs said that Vale failed to take proper safety measures at a tailings dam at its Corrego do Feijao iron ore mine in Minas Gerais

    A group of international non-governmental organizations on Tuesday demanded that Brazilian miner Vale SA be excluded from the United Nations' corporate responsibility pact, after a mining dam burst that killed an estimated 300 people.

  • Thursday, February 7th 2019 - 09:16 UTC

    Last four years the hottest on record, confirms UN's Meteorological Office

    “The long-term temperature trend is far more important than the ranking of individual years, and that trend is an upward one,” said WMO Petteri Taalas

    The last four years were the hottest since global temperature records began, the UN confirmed on Wednesday in an analysis that it said was a “clear sign of continuing long-term climate change”. The UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in November that 2018 was set to be the fourth warmest year in recorded history, stressing the urgent need for action to rein in runaway planetary warming.

  • Saturday, January 26th 2019 - 20:02 UTC

    USA at the UN: Countries should support transition in Venezuela; Russia denounces interventionist acts

    Mike Pompeo asked the nations to paralyze financial transactions with the government of Nicolás Maduro

    The Security Council convened by the United States this Saturday to discuss the institutional and political crisis that Venezuela is experiencing has been lifted this afternoon. With a strongly polarized participation, the bloc that supports the transitional government of Juan Guaidó with the US at the head, faced the block that recognizes as legitimate the regime of Nicolás Maduro, headed by Russia and China. Latin American countries also expressed their positions, describing the case as a crisis that directly affects the region.

  • Wednesday, December 5th 2018 - 09:48 UTC

    UN seeking US$ 738m to help neighboring countries receiving inflow of millions of Venezuelan refuges

    It was the first time that the crisis was included in the U.N. annual global humanitarian appeal which is US$ 21.9 billion for 2019 without Syria

    The United Nations said on Tuesday it was seeking US$ 738 million in 2019 to help neighboring countries cope with the inflow of millions of Venezuelan refugees and migrants, who have “no prospect for return in the short to medium term”.

  • Thursday, November 22nd 2018 - 08:30 UTC

    UN Environment chief resigned (sacked) over global travel expenses

    A draft internal U.N. audit found Solheim had spent almost US$ 500,000 on air travel and hotels in 22 months, and was away from Nairobi base 80% of the time

    U.N. environment chief Erik Solheim resigned following widespread criticism of his excessive expenses on official global travel. The former Norwegian diplomat, politician and environment minister announced on the U.N. Environment Program's website that he would step down on Thursday after receiving the final report of the audit of his official travel by the U.N.'s internal watchdog on Saturday.