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Press Conferences | UNCTAD
Developing countries crippled by debt need urgent relief, stresses UN trade agency
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Edited News
Concern for Libya's civilians mounts as fighting continues even in face of pandemic and calls for global ceasefire
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Edited News | WMO
Fall in carbon emissions linked to COVID-19 won’t halt climate change, says UN weather agency chief
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Press Conferences | UNHCR , OCHA , WHO , UNCTAD , ILO
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the virtual briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Conference for...
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Edited News | UNHCR
UNHCR: Massive floods in DRC’s South Kivu impact 80,000 people, kill dozens
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Press Conferences | WFP , FAO
FAO/WFP: Launch of the 2020 Global Report on Food Crises and knock-on effects of COVID-19 pandemic in the hungriest countries
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Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
Renewed inter-communal violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern province of Ituri, resumed in this province on the Ugandan border. The United Nations Joint Human Rights office in the DRC published a report in January that this type of acts of violence, if committed as part of a...
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Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
30 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar were found dead on board a boat in the Bay of Bengal, that had been drifting at sea for 2 months. Nearly 400 others were found on board this fishing trawler by the Bangladesh coast guard attempted to make landfall on Bangladesh's southeast coast near Cox's Bazar.
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Edited News | FAO
FAO: World has enough food to withstand COVID crisis, says UN agency
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Press Conferences | OHCHR , UNICEF , UNHCR , WHO , UNITED NATIONS , WFP , UNECE
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the virtual briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the...