Tag: United Nations

• Saturday, August 8th 2020 - 08:05 UTC

  UN has received no official requests to investigate the Beirut port deadly explosion

  

  The United Nations has not received any requests to investigate the deadly explosion in Beirut’s port, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday after French President Emmanuel Macron called for an international inquiry.

• Friday, August 7th 2020 - 08:24 UTC

  UK Dames diplomacy in New York and Washington

  

  United Kingdom has named Dame Barbara Woodward as its permanent representative to the United Nations, its most senior diplomat to the New York-based body. Dame Barbara, currently British ambassador to China, is a previous international director of UK Border Force.

• Thursday, July 16th 2020 - 09:29 UTC

  Criminal gangs control Venezuelan Amazon mining gold, diamonds, coltan, UN report

  

  Some gold, diamond and bauxite mines in the Venezuelan Amazon are largely controlled by criminal gangs who exploit, beat, and even kill workers, a United Nations investigation has found. Venezuelan security and military forces fail to prevent crimes and have participated in some violence against miners, the UN human rights office said in a report on Wednesday.

• Monday, July 6th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Six out of ten children in Argentina live in poverty, UN data

  

  The global pandemic has hammered Argentina's economy, which is now expected to shrink around 12% this year, driving millions into poverty and leaving almost six out of every 10 children and adolescents below the poverty line, United Nations data show.

• Friday, June 26th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  UN Secretary General calls on world leaders to strengthen multilateral cooperation

  

  UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called on the world to strengthen multilateral cooperation, saying a global approach has been the key to addressing the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Wednesday, June 24th 2020 - 09:28 UTC

  UN freezes 2020/2021 budget for peacekeeping operations

  

  The UN budget for peacekeeping operations will remain at US$6.5 billion under an agreement reached overnight among the UN's 193 member states, diplomats said on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, June 16th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  UNCTAD anticipates value of global trade in second quarter will drop 27%

  

  A study carried out by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Unctad, pointed out that disruptions to the economic and social sectors by the pandemic have caused a dramatic decline in trade.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 09:26 UTC

  COVID-19 vaccine must be seen as “a global public good – a people’s vaccine”, UN Secretary-General Guterres

  

  ”We need global solidarity to ensure that every person, everywhere, has access”, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a video message to the Global Vaccine Summit, convened to find and fund collective solutions for Covid-19-related vaccines and to strengthen routine immunization commitments and resources for other preventable diseases.

• Saturday, May 16th 2020 - 07:18 UTC

  China calls on the US to “fulfill their financial obligations to the United Nations”

  

  China on Friday issued a statement calling on all UN member states to “actively fulfill their financial obligations to the United Nations,” stressing that Washington owes the organization more than US$2 billion.

• Tuesday, May 5th 2020 - 07:02 UTC

  Half of the world's workers in danger of losing livelihoods, ILO report

  

  Half of the world's workers are in danger of having their livelihoods destroyed by the coronavirus pandemic, a United Nations agency has warned. The International Labour Organisation's updated analysis emphasizes its severe impact on people in informal work.