Europe

Professor Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on torture, at a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York.
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UN expert criticizes States for ‘ganging up’ on Wikileaks’ Assange; warns against extradition, fearing ‘serious’ rights violations

31 May 2019
Human Rights

After visiting Julian Assange in a London prison, an independent UN human rights expert expressed urgent concern on Friday, for the Wikileaks co-founder’s well-being, accusing “a group of democratic States” of “ganging up” on the prisoner to “isolate, demonize and abuse” him and warned against extraditing the controversial publisher to the United States. 

UN Secretary-General António Guterres receives the Charlemagne Prize in Aachen, Germany on 30 May 2019.
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A ‘strong and united Europe’ has never been more needed, declares UN chief Guterres

30 May 2019
Peace and Security

With the post-world war international institutions eroded and under threat, a “strong and united Europe” standing alongside the United Nations, has never been more essential, said UN chief António Guterres in Germany on Thursday.

Sonia’s classmate and friend Oleksii also remembers the date his school was shelled for the first time, because it was his father’s birthday...
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Children in crisis-torn eastern Ukraine ‘too terrified to learn’ amid spike in attacks on schools

20 May 2019
Humanitarian Aid

Schoolchildren are bearing long-lasting mental and physical scars of eastern Ukraine’s conflict, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday, as the agency warned of an “alarming” increase in attacks on schools during the first four months of 2019.

From left to right, Princess Dina Mirad of Jordan, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, mental health advocate and mother of Lady Gaga Cynthia Germanotta and Nigerian songwriter and singer Korede Bello participated in the 2019 Walk the Talk event in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Promoting ‘a healthy sustainable future’, the UN health agency engages young and young at heart to 'Walk the Talk'

19 May 2019
Health

Celebrating the importance of fitness, on Sunday morning in the Swiss city of Geneva, the United Nations health agency kicked off its second “Walk the Talk: The Health for All Challenge”.