Thailand: UN rights office deeply troubled by treason charges for protestors
Thailand’s decision to charge protestors with treason is deeply troubling, the UN Human Rights Office, OHCHR, said on Friday following the arrest of at...
Funding needed to halt ‘life threatening crisis’ facing refugees in Kenya
Amidst a “critical shortage” of resources, hundreds of thousands of refugees in Kenya will lack food unless new funds are swiftly received, the UN’s...
IRENA Offers El Salvador a Strategic Action Plan To Drive Energy Transformation
Enhancing long-term planning for the renewable energy sector, fostering project development and establishing clear institutional frameworks are among the key action areas that can...
Indonesia: Support for Public Health and Affected Households for a Secure Recovery
Indonesia will finish 2020 experiencing its first recession in two decades, but signs of recovery are increasing, driven by a pick-up in consumption and...
Aligning Recovery with Climate Efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean
Renewable energy is a central part of national climate pledges under the Paris Agreement. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) set out the steps that countries...
In battling COVID-19, countries shouldn’t lose sight of sustainable development
COVID-19 is threatening to plunge millions of people into poverty and worsen global hunger, undermining the long-running push for sustainable development, warns a new...
Smart new technologies can play a vital role in addressing plastic pollution crisis
From source to sea, our waters are contaminated by a plastics scourge. A new study by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International...
UN rights experts ‘deeply troubled’ by impunity for killing of Palestinian children
UN independent human rights experts, on Thursday, called for an impartial and independent investigation into the killing of a 15-year-old child by Israeli security...
Fighting displaces over 500,000 in northern Mozambique
Attacks by armed groups in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Zambezia and Niassa provinces have displaced more than 530,000 people, many of whom have been...
Two billion COVID vaccine doses secured, WHO says end of pandemic is in sight
The end of the pandemic is in sight but we must not let our guard down, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO)...