– UN Information
Higher funding in State establishments is important to counter peace and safety challenges in Africa, a senior UN official informed the Safety Council on Monday.
– UN Information
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination opened in Geneva on Monday to overview anti-discrimination efforts being accomplished in seven UN Member States.
– Inter Press Service
MADRID, Aug 08 (IPS) – Nothing – or too little – has modified since Hollywood began producing its spectacular western films. Tough males, ranchers, mercenary killers, saloons, cowboys, weapons, gold fever, the ‘good sheriff’… and the ‘unhealthy indians”. These films had been something however fiction–they had been actual historical past.
– UN Information
The UN labour company, ILO, says it’s turning into more and more involved about working circumstances in Iraq, the place temperatures have soared to 50 levels Celsius in current weeks.
– UN Information
The UN sexual and reproductive well being company, UNFPA, is main efforts to guard girls and ladies’ rights to provide beginning safely and reside with out gender-based violence, in line with an announcement issued on Monday.
– UN Information
UN Secretary-Basic António Guterres condemned a current assault on a nuclear energy station in southern Ukraine throughout a gathering in Tokyo on Monday with the Japan Nationwide Press Membership.
– UN Information
A $10 million mortgage from the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) will permit the Meals and Agriculture Group (FAO) to scale up the procurement of fertilizers to help farmers within the restive Tigray area in northern Ethiopia, the company introduced on Monday.
– Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Aug 08 (IPS) – New telemedicine know-how, Daktari Good, goals to mitigate the hole between youngster sufferers and medical specialists in rural Kenya.
– Inter Press Service
– UN Information
In July, a UN human rights officer launched into an outreach go to to the Horn of Africa’s Sool and Sanaag areas, a seven-day round-trip of greater than 1,600 kilometres by street.
