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Friday’s Daily Brief: solidarity with Japan, call for DR Congo support, family-friendly workplaces, hottest June ever, Venezuela and Afghanistan updates
UN stands in solidarity with Japan following deadly arson attack at leading animation studio in Kyoto UN chief António Guterres said on Friday...
Increased community-based engagement seen as critical to build climate action and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
New York, 19 July—With reports indicating that current efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals are being undermined by climate...
Asia and Pacific on course to miss all Sustainable Development Goals, says UN region chief
Under-Secretary-General Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana was in New York to take part in the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, the main UN...
UNICEF urges ‘transformative shift’ in family-friendly work policies to reap ‘huge’ benefits
“There is no other time more critical to children’s lives than their earliest years”, said Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director,...
World ‘off track’ to meet most Sustainable Development Goals on hunger, food security and nutrition
Four years since the international community agreed to implement the 17 Sustainable Development Goals - whose objectives include tackling food...
‘Stay together and step up’ action to meet Global Goals, ECOSOC President tells development forum
“Even though the global picture is mixed”, she stated during the closing of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development...
Ebola emergency meeting to go ahead as UNICEF warns of higher risk to very youngest children
Speaking in Geneva, UNICEF spokesperson Marixie Mercado said that “there have been 750 infections among children. This represents 31 per cent of...
‘Greater urgency’ needed in fight against HIV/AIDS, warns UN agency, amidst $1 billion investment cuts
Ending AIDS is possible if we focus on people, not diseases Gunilla Carlsson, acting Executive Director of UNAIDS The news...
DR Congo Ebola outbreak now an international Public Health Emergency, UN health agency declares
With the first anniversary of the complex outbreak in the volatile eastern part of the country looming, WHO chief Tedros...
‘Young people care about peace’: UN Youth Envoy delivers key message to Security Council
However, Jayathma Wickramanayake made clear that “young women and men still suffer from stereotypes, myths and policy panics that harm...
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