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UN adopts resolution calling for pandemic-related halt to conflicts
It is the Security Council's first statement on the pandemic and its first real action since the outbreak started.
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UN warns that cannabis could pose health risk as tobacco firms back trade
The UN said that the use of opioids had overtaken heroin in drug abuse and this made drug abuse more difficult to detect.
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Women at risk of secondary abuse when arrested for drugs - UN
With the world marking International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on Friday, it's emerged 30% more people were abusing drugs today than there were in 2009.
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World health leaders: 'Human activity to blame for diseases like COVID-19'
Leaders from global health organisations say deforestation and the unregulated wildlife trade is to blame for diseases like COVID-19 being transmitted to humans.
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UN rights expert asks to give evidence in South Africa air pollution case
If the High Court allows David Boyd, UN special rapporteur on human rights and the environment, to do so at a hearing later this month, it could bolster a case aiming to force the government to curb emissions.
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UN rights council agrees to urgent debate on racism, police violence
It is only the fifth time in the council's 14-year history that it has agreed to hold an "urgent debate", which is a special debate agreed upon within a regular session of the council.
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UN voices 'horror' after reports of Libya mass graves
"UNSMIL notes with horror reports on the discovery of at least eight mass graves in past days, the majority of them in Tarhuna," the UN mission said in a statement on Twitter.
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UN chief warns pandemic could spark global food emergency
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was possible to develop healthy and nutritional food to help eradicate world hunger.
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UN chief backs global access to 'people's vaccine' for coronavirus
The virtual meeting, hosted by Britain, aims to raise $7.4 billion for immunisation programmes stalled by the pandemic, and launch a new fundraising drive to support potential COVID-19 vaccines.
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UN creates political mission in Sudan to support transition
The resolution on the new United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) was drafted by Britain and Germany.
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French court orders Rwanda genocide suspect be tried at UN tribunal
UN prosecutors accuse Felicien Kabuga of bankrolling and arming ethnic Hutu militias that killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda during a 100-day period in 1994.
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AMINA J MOHAMMED: After COVID-19, Africa can build back better
We must have faith that the pandemic is only a partial eclipse, and that Africa’s sun will shine again, writes Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Amina J Mohammed.
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UN chief deplores lack of ceasefire during virus
Since the call by Antonio Guterres in March for ceasefires, announcements backing the end of fighting have been made in countries including Afghanistan, the Philippines and Cameroon, but conflicts have continued to rage in Libya, Yemen and elsewhere.
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UN warns of global mental health crisis due to COVID-19 pandemic
"The isolation, the fear, the uncertainty, the economic turmoil - they all cause or could cause psychological distress."
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Three UN peacekeepers killed in roadside bomb in northern Mali: statement
'We will combine all efforts to identify and apprehend those responsible for these terrorist acts so that they can answer for their crimes,' Mahamat Saleh Annadif, UN mission chief in Mali, said in a statement.
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UN chief says coronavirus has sparked 'tsunami of hate and xenophobia'
According to Antonio Guterres, migrants and refugees have been 'vilified as a source of the virus -- and then denied access to medical treatment.'
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UN appeals for $4.7 billion more to fight virus pandemic
The money is on top of the $2 billion the UN already called for when it launched its global humanitarian response plan on 25 March. It has received about half of that money so far.
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6 ways to protect human rights during lockdown – according to the UN
In a new report, the UN sets out six key human rights messages that it says must be central to an effective response to the pandemic.
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UN: SA’s ban on sale of alcohol during lockdown contributed to low GBV stats
Micheal Ebele of the UN Population Fund has told Eyewitness News that neighbouring countries can learn from South Africa in this regard.
