Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography [to 10 October 2015]
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Children/Pages/ChildrenIndex.aspx
09 Oct 2015
Accountability best defence for deterring attacks on schools: Leila Zerrougui
SRSG/CAAC Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict [to 10 October 2015]
https://childrenandarmedconflict.un.org/virtual-library/press-release-archive/
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02 Oct 2015
Joint statement on Somalia’s ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
SRSG/SVC Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict [to 10 October 2015]
http://www.un.org/sexualviolenceinconflict/media/press-releases/
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05 Oct 2015
UN Special Representative hails announcement of Japan’s first National Action Plan on Security Council resolution 1325
(New York, 05 October 2015) United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Hawa Bangura has hailed the announcement by the Government of Japan of its first National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, stating that “I am very glad that Japan has launched its first national plan, which exemplifies the country’s leading role in pushing for the protection and empowerment of women.”…
UN OCHA [to 10 October 2015]
http://www.unocha.org/media-resources/press-releases
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09 Oct 2015
Somalia: Somalia: Early action by aid partners to step up El Niño preparedness
Mogadishu, 9 October 2015): Aid agencies are ramping up efforts to mitigate the impact of the El Niño phenomenon in Somalia between October and December. More than 600,000 people in southern and central Somalia and in Puntland are likely to be affected by flooding, which may result in disease and deterioration in the food security and nutritional situations…
09 Oct 2015
Nepal: Early Recovery Cluster: Nepal Earthquake Cluster Response April to September 2015
OVERALL ACHIEVEMENTS The Early Recovery Cluster and its partners reached 1,289,000 people out of the 2 million people targeted: Debris management and safe demolition An estimated 93,000 households benefitted from safe demolition and debris removal. The shift of implementation strategy to prioritise public buildings over private buildings contributed to a reach 250 per cent of the initial cluster target…
08 Oct 2015
Yemen: Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien – Statement on Yemen, 8 October 2015 [EN/AR]
Yemen – I am deeply disturbed by the news of civilians being killed by coalition air strikes that hit a wedding party in Yemen’s Dhamar Governorate yesterday. The Ministry of Public Health and Population reports that at least 47 civilians were killed, and 35 injured, among them many women and children. Once again we are seeing the devastating impact of explosive weapons – used by all parties – in this conflict…
06 Oct 2015
World: World Humanitarian Summit: Global consultation in Switzerland
WHEN: 14-16 October 2015
WHERE: International Conference Centre (CICG) in Geneva, Switzerland
The Global Consultation in Geneva 14-16 October will complete the consultative process on the way to the World Humanitarian Summit called for by the UN Secretary-General and hosted by Turkey on 23-24 May 2016.
UNICEF [to 10 October 2015]
http://www.unicef.org/media/media_78364.html
Selected press releases
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UNICEF and WHO ready to support immediate polio vaccination campaign in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine/COPENHAGEN/GENEVA, 9 October 2015 – Six weeks after the polio outbreak in Ukraine, UNICEF and WHO have stepped up calls for an immediate first round of nationwide polio vaccination.
50 years after UNICEF received Nobel Peace Prize, children still face ‘conflict and crisis, deprivation and disadvantage’ — UNICEF Chief
NEW YORK, 6 October 2015 – “In accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of UNICEF in 1965, UNICEF’s second Executive Director, Henry Labouisse, said that “the welfare of today’s children is inseparably linked with the peace of tomorrow’s world.” Today, in a world of growing turmoil, his words still ring true. And they speak to us all
UNHCR Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [to 10 October 2015]
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/search?page=&comid=4a0950336&cid=49aea93a7d&scid=49aea93a40
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International community commits to refocus attention on Afghan refugee situation; calls for increased support for regional solutions
8 October 2015
IOM / International Organization for Migration [to 10 October 2015]
http://www.iom.int/press-room/press-releases
Selected Press Releases
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IOM Monitors Mediterranean Migrant Flows: 7,000 Crossing Daily to Greece
10/09/15
Greece – In the past week, IOM staff in the Greek islands have recorded a sharp increase in the number of newly arrived migrants and refugees to some 7,000 a day.
Conditions Improve in South Sudan’s Malakal Site, But Displaced Face Ongoing Hardship
10/09/15
South Sudan – Living conditions for new arrivals at the UN protection of civilians (PoC) site in Malakal, Upper Nile State, South Sudan, have improved since a 10-day influx of 11,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in early August. However, the site remains congested due to space constraints.
Swing Asks EU to Respect Rights of Vulnerable Migrants Arriving on its Shores
10/08/15
Luxembourg – IOM DG Swing has called on the EU to adopt policies that balance full protection for refugees, orderly border management and dignified return.
IOM, UNHCR Work Together to Aid Migrants and Refugees Fleeing Yemen
10/06/15
Kenya – Representatives from IOM and UNHCR have presented a Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan to respond to the crisis in Yemen at a donor meeting held in Nairobi.
IOM Monitors Latest Migrant Arrivals, Deaths in Mediterranean
10/06/15
Italy – IOM’s Missing Migrants Project calculates that 2,987 migrants so far this year have perished in the Mediterranean.
IOM Warns of Misinformation Campaigns, Following Renewed CAR Violence
10/06/15
Central African Republic – The recent attack on IOM’s office in Bangui has seriously diminished IOM CAR’s operational capacity.
West African States Discuss West African Irregular Migration Challenges
10/06/15
Nigeria – The Migration Dialogue for West Africa (MIDWA) 2015 conference on “Irregular Migration: Challenges and Solutions” will be held this week (6-8 October) in Nouakchott, Mauritania. The conference, which will include a two-day experts meeting, followed by a one-day Ministerial meeting, is supported by the Swiss Government.
UN Women [to 10 October 2015]
http://www.unwomen.org/news/stories
Selected Press Releases
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Statement by UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka for International Day of the Girl Child, 11 October 2015
Date : October 9, 2015
We know we have an extraordinarily long way to go to achieve what we want for our 15-year-olds. But they must know that they, and all their siblings, are in the spotlight. Today is the Day when we focus our attention on the Girl Child, but it is not a day in isolation. It is part of a massive and relentless drive towards a world of equality: a Planet 50-50 by 2030…
WHO & Regionals [to 10 October 2015]
WHO Welcomes Nobel Prize for Medicine Awards for Discoveries of Tropical Disease Drugs
October 2015 — WHO welcomes the decision to award the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of drugs that have radically improved treatment for tropical diseases such as Malaria, onchocerciasis (River Blindness), and lymphatic filariasis.
World Mental Health Day 2015
Dignity in mental health
:: WHO Regional Offices
WHO African Region AFRO
:: Dr Moeti – Health is a reliable measure of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
Cape Town, 6 October 2015 – The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti has underscored the critical role of health in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Addressing delegates at the Second Ministerial Forum on China-Africa Health Development, in Cape Town, South Africa, Dr Moeti observed that although health is a desirable outcome of the SDGs in its own right and an input into other goals, it is a reliable measure of sustainable development. She noted that health can no longer be considered as a consuming sector…
WHO Region of the Americas PAHO
:: Breast cancer awareness, screening and treatment save lives, PAHO experts say (10/06/2015)
WHO South-East Asia Region SEARO
:: Dignity in mental health – 10 October 2015
:: Ensure eye care for all – 08 October 2015
WHO European Region EURO
:: UNICEF and WHO ready to support immediate polio vaccination campaign in Ukraine 09-10-2015
:: Food, water and health care: WHO reviews basic services for refugees crossing Serbia 09-10-2015
:: New WHO guidelines on antiretroviral therapy and pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV infection 07-10-2015
:: Medical professionals trained in refugee and migrant health in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 05-10-2015
WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region EMRO
:: 62nd session of the WHO Regional Committee concludes in Kuwait
9 October 2015 – The WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean concluded its 62nd session on 8 October with the adoption of important resolutions and decisions to advance the health agenda in the Region. Resolutions outline the joint work expected from Member States and WHO in the areas of health security, prevention and control of emerging infections, prevention of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and cancer, medical education, mental health, and assessment and monitoring of the implementation of the IHR 2005, among others.
:: Scaling up response to the cholera outbreak in Iraq – 8 October 2015
:: WHO delivers additional medical supplies to Yemen – 8 October 2015
WHO Western Pacific Region
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UNDP United Nations Development Programme [to 10 October 2015]
http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/presscenter.html
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Twenty Ministers of Finance agree on financial mechanisms to foster greater investment in climate resiliency
Oct 8, 2015 Lima – Finance Ministers of the Vulnerable Twenty (V20), representing close to 700 million people threatened by climate change and spanning world regions, held their inaugural meeting on 8 October 2015 in Lima, Peru. They announced a series of actions to foster greater investment in climate resiliency and low emissions development at home and internationally.
Japan, UN support reintegration of child soldiers in Eastern DRC
Oct 7, 2015 Japan is contributing USD 4 million to help with the reintegration of former child soldiers and vulnerable children – including boys and girls who were victims of sexual violence — in the province of North Kivu, situated in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme [to 10 October 2015]
http://www.unep.org/newscentre/?doctypeID=1
Selected Press Releases
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New UN Report Details Ecosystem Services of Almost One Billion Dollars Annually in Four Pilot Countries
ProEcoServ assessed ecosystem services such as water, soil retention, shoreline protection, carbon sequestration and pollination in South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Viet Nam and Chile
07/10/2015
UNISDR UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction [to 10 October 2015]
http://www.unisdr.org/archive
Selected Press Releases
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Europe adopts Sendai roadmap
9 Oct 2015
European countries on Friday issued a broad-ranging plan to energize their implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, an international agreement that aims by 2030 to reduce substantially the number of deaths and economic damage caused by natural and man-made hazards.
Flash floods are a major global threat says UN
9 Oct 2015
The head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Margareta Wahlström, today said that urban areas must invest more in reducing the risk from flash floods such as those which have claimed hundreds of lives in Guatemala, South Carolina in the US and the south of France in recent days.
UNESCO [to 10 October 2015]
http://en.unesco.org/news
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09 October 2015
Nobel Peace Prize – UNESCO Director-General says the choice is “a tribute to civil society”
08 October 2015
Right to Education Programme launched in Pakistan aims to get 50,000 more girls in remote areas into school
05 October 2015
Laureates of the 2016 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science Awards
05 October 2015
Director-General condemns the destruction of the Arch of Triumph in Palmyra: “Extremists are terrified of history”
05 October 2015
UNESCO panel of experts calls for ban on “editing” of human DNA to avoid unethical tampering with hereditary traits
UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime [to 10 October 2015]
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/allpress.html?ref=fp
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UNODC/South African presentation on Nelson Mandela Rules underscores need to treat prisoners with dignity
New York / Vienna, 8 October 2015 – “Prisoners are human beings, born in dignity and entitled to security and to the protection of their human rights,” said the President of the General Assembly, Mogens Lykketoft, yesterday, at a presentation of the revised UN Standard Minimum Rules on the Treatment of prisoners (also known as the “Nelson Mandela Rules” after the former South African President).
Mr. Lykketoft noted: “Too often, the driving principle behind prisoner treatment has been to see these individuals as entirely separate from our communities and our societies. Hidden from our gaze, and indeed sometimes before our very eyes, prisoners have suffered abuse and mistreatment.”
He welcomed the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) work with its partners, both within and outside the UN system, to help countries implement the Nelson Mandela Rules, and by doing so, improve prisoners’ lives…
UN-HABITAT United Nations Human Settlements Programme [to 10 October 2015]
http://unhabitat.org/media-centre/news/
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Calls for sustainable urbanisation as the globe celebrates World Habitat Day
New York/New Delhi/Nairobi 6 October 2015—World Habitat Day was marked on Monday with calls for sustainable urbanisation across the globe.
Posted October 6, 2015
UN-Habitat and the International Road Transport Union sign MOU
New York 6th October 2015 — On the sidelines of the historic United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, UN-Habitat and the International Road Transport Union signed a Memorandum of Understanding. “The MOU marks the beginning…
Posted October 6, 2015
FAO Food & Agriculture Organization [to 10 October 2015]
http://www.fao.org/news/archive/news-by-date/2015/en/
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First global food and agriculture plant genetics data library gets go-ahead
The agreement to proceed with the proposal for a Global Information System (GLIS) from the FAO-based seed treaty came during a week-long meeting of the 6th biennial Governing Body that ended in Rome on October 9.
9-10-2015
FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries celebrates 20-year anniversary
Twenty years after its birth, FAO’s Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries shared a moment in the limelight with ministers, researchers and leaders in the fisheries industry at the first International Fisheries Stakeholders Forum that opened in Vigo, Spain, today.
8-10-2015
Genetic makeup of thousands of rice varieties placed in global seed data pool
The Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Treaty (ITPGRFA) made the announcement at the 6th session of the Governing Body of the FAO-based 136-member nation plant treaty that is being held in Rome this week.
7-10-2015
South Sudan: FAO air operation delivers agriculture aid to hard-to-access areas
FAO’s rapid response operation in conflict-torn South Sudan has delivered livelihood assistance to 60,000 food-insecure households in hard-to-reach areas of northern Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile States, where food stocks are running out and most families have been unable to produce food this year.
5-10-2015
WMO World Meteorological Organization [to 10 October 2015]
https://www.wmo.int/media/?q=news
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WMO signs maritime safety accord with International Hydrographic Organization
8 October 2015
WMO has signed an agreement with the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) to strengthen cooperation and coordination in the provision of maritime safety information to protect lives at sea.
A Memorandum of Understanding, signed on 7 October, commits the two organizations to coordinate activities related to the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System, in support of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea. These are two of the main instruments designed to improve the safety of merchant shipping.
UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organization [to 10 October 2015]
http://www.unido.org/en/news-centre/news.html
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New report highlights renewable energy and energy efficiency growth in Southern African Development Community
Wednesday, 07 October 2015
CAPE TOWN, 7 October 2015 – The Southern African Development Community (SADC) region of 15 countries, with approximately 23.5 per cent of energy generated from renewables, is becoming a key player in the international trend.
CBD Convention on Biological Diversity [to 10 October 2015]
http://www.cbd.int/press-releases/
US Department of State [to 10 October 2015]
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2015/index.htm
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10/07/15 Under Secretary Sarah Sewall Joins UN Rollout of Global Standards for Treatment of Prisoners
Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
Today, Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Sarah Sewall spoke at the United Nations (UN) launch of the revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (SMRs), the first update to the SMRs in 60 years. These international non-binding standards, which will guide nations’ practices around the world, are known as the “Mandela Rules” in honor of the late South African president who spent many years in Robben Island prison. In 2012, the United States joined South Africa and others in a multi-year process to update the SMRs, which will culminate in UN General Assembly adoption of the revised Standards this fall.
Other international dignitaries who spoke at this high-level UN event include Mogens Lykketoft, President of the UN General Assembly, Yury Fedotov, Director of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime, and senior-level justice officials from several nations.
Under Secretary Sewall highlighted U.S. cooperation with other nations to support corrections systems reforms, in order to better safeguard human rights, promote reintegration into society, and prevent and counter violent extremism.
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