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UN-GLOBE marches in the 2019 World Pride parade in celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning/queer and intersex (LGBTQI) people everywhere.
UN-GLOBE

World Pride underscores that all people are born ‘free and equal’ in dignity and human rights

30 June 2019
Human Rights

The empowering message straight from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) that "all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and human rights" resonated on Sunday from UN-GLOBE members who participated in the World Pride parade in New York City.

Farm land borders industry in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa (file).
World Bank/John Hogg

'Act now with ambition and urgency' to tackle the world’s ‘grave climate emergency’, UN chief urges UAE meeting

30 June 2019
Climate and Environment

The world is facing “a grave climate emergency”, Secretary-General António Guterres told a climate meeting in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital of Abu Dhabi on Sunday, urging all participants to “seize this opportunity to take bold climate action”.

Maintaining a cold chain is vital to the work of mobile health teams like this one in Jordan.
© UNICEF/Chris Herwig

Keeping cool in the face of climate change

30 June 2019
Climate and Environment

As global temperatures reach record highs, providing cooling systems which are effective, sustainable and which do not harm the environment is increasingly essential for everyday life. That’s according to Rachel Kyte, Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Energy for All, and Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL).

Secretary-General António Guterres at a Climate Change Trilateral Meeting with Jean-Yves Le Drian, Foreign Minister of France and Wang Yi, Foreign Minister of China, 29 June 2019.
UN Japan/Ichiro Mae

Create conditions for ‘harmony between humankind and nature’, UN chief says on sidelines of G20 in Japan

29 June 2019
Climate and Environment

The world needs to create conditions for “harmony between humankind and nature”, Secretary-General António Guterres said in Osaka, Japan, during a meeting on Saturday with the Foreign Ministers of China and France, on the margins of the G20 summit.

Records show that nearly 1,600 children have died around the world in search of a better future since 2014.
IOM/Francesco Malavolta

One migrant child reported dead or missing every day, UN calls for more protection

28 June 2019
Migrants and Refugees

Around 1,600 children were reported dead or missing between 2014 and 2018 – an average of almost one every day – but many more go unrecorded, a new UN report revealed on Friday.

World leaders meet at the G20 Osaka Summit on 28 June 2019.
G20 Osaka Summit 2019

Amidst ‘high political tension’, UN chief appeals to G20 leaders for stronger commitment to climate action, economic cooperation 

28 June 2019
Climate and Environment

The annual G20 summit of leaders from the largest and fastest-growing economies, got underway on Friday in Osaka, Japan, against a backdrop of what UN Secretary-General António Guterres described as “a moment of high political tension”.

Children at a school tent in the northern Idlib, Syria. Humanitarian emergencies deprive children of health, nutrition, water and sanitation, education and other basic needs.
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Thursday’s Daily Brief: dire living conditions in Idlib, migrants at US southern border, end in sight for trachoma, Human Rights Council

27 June 2019
Humanitarian Aid

This Thursday, we cover: the dire humanitarian situation in Syria’s Idlib; living conditions at the US-Mexico border denounced by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF); trachoma-related blindness on the verge of being eliminated; and updates from the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

A United Nations Mine Action Service team team visits mine clearance site in Central Equatoria, South Sudan.
UNMISS/JC McIlwaine

Wednesday's Daily Brief: migration tragedy in the Rio Grande, drugs report, Torture Victims Day

26 June 2019
Migrants and Refugees

Top news, this Thursday are: the migration debate spurred by the tragic image of a drowned man and his daughter in the Rio Grande; the Khashoggi killing discussed at the Human Rights Council; key findings from the latest UN report on drugs; updates from South Sudan and Mali; International Day in Support of Victims of Torture; and an event on tolerance in at UN headquarters in New York.

Senior UN officials holding copies of the UN Charter at UN HQ in New York
UN Photo/Amanda Voisard

‘Summon the spirit of San Francisco’, says General Assembly President on UN Charter anniversary

26 June 2019
UN Affairs

Reaffirming faith in human rights, promoting social justice and saving the world from the “scourge of war”: just some of the founding principles of the United Nations, which appear in the Organization’s bedrock Charter, signed exactly 74 years ago in San Francisco.

Singers wearing hats advocating “No Torture” line up before performing at a Human Rights Day event outside of Mogadishu Central Prison in Somalia.
UN Photo/Tobin Jones

Vile act of torture prohibited ‘under all circumstances’, UN chief affirms on International Day to support victims

26 June 2019
Human Rights

While the prohibition of torture is “absolute, under all circumstances”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres bemoaned the fact that “this core principle is undermined every day” - in detention centres, prisons, police stations, psychiatric institutions and other places where captor can prey on captive.