Paraguay

UN News/Daniel Johnson

Paraguay: UN rights chief calls for ‘prompt, independent’ probe into girl deaths and disappearance 

5 February 2021
Human Rights

Following the disappearance in Paraguay of a teenage girl and killing of two 11-year-olds, the UN human rights chief has expressed her deep concern, also noting on Friday other disturbing elements of abuse against women and girls, surrounding the cases. 

UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

News in Brief 14 August 2019

14 August 2019
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan: grave concern at reports 11 civilians killed by pro-Government forces
  • UN panel urges Paraguay to probe poisonings, contamination from agrochemical sprays
  • Disarmament discussions must make urgent progress, says UN’s new top diplomat in Geneva
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UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

Prosecution of Paraguay judges over peasant ‘massacre’ ruling could undermine rule of law: UN expert

5 November 2018
Human Rights

The planned prosecution of Supreme Court judges who acquitted 11 peasant farmers jailed over the death of police officers during a violent land eviction in 2012, known as the Curuguaty Massacre”, could undermine the rule of law, a UN expert said on Monday.

PAHO/WHO Photo

Paraguay’s elimination of malaria ‘shows what is possible’ – UN health agency

11 June 2018
Health

Paraguay has successfully eliminated malaria, the United Nations health agency has announced, highlighting that the major milestone offers lessons to other countries aiming to control the mosquito-borne sickness.

Hilal Elver.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

Inequality behind food access discrepancy in Paraguay: Human rights expert

13 November 2016
General News

Despite a decade of impressive economic growth in Paraguay, 10 per cent of citizens there are facing hunger and malnutrition.

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Photo: UN Radio/Daniel Dickinson
UN Radio/Daniel Dickinson

Disaster preparedness in Paraguay’s biggest tip

9 August 2016
General News

Efforts are underway in Paraguay to prepare impoverished people living on the margins of the country’s biggest rubbish dump, for the likely eventuality of flooding.

The Cateura dump is located next to the Paraguay River in the south of the capital Asuncion.

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Flooding in Paraguay.
UNICEF/ Martin Crespo

Paraguay communities learn to cope with flooding

27 July 2016
General News

People living in flood-prone areas of Paraguay are learning how to prepare and cope with annual and sometimes life-changing inundations.

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UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

UN rights chief 'deeply troubled' by conviction of land reform activists in Paraguay

20 July 2016
The United Nations human rights chief today expressed concern over the recent ruling by the Court in Paraguay that convicted 11 land reform protestors, calling on the country's authorities to take urgent measures to ensure fair, independent investigations and guarantee access to justice.

View of the valley towards Basseterre, St. Kitts. File
UNDP

Tsunami preparedness underway in St Kitts and Nevis

7 July 2016
General News

The tiny Caribbean island nation St Kitts and Nevis has been working with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) to make sure it is in a “state of readiness” if a tsunami were to hit the low-lying archipelago.

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Seventy-seven-year-old Anacleta struggles to subsist in her storm-ravaged home following Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the Philippines in 2013. File
HelpAge International/Rosaleen Cunningham

Older people need “greater say” in disaster planning

24 June 2016
General News

Older people need to be consulted more consistently when it comes to planning for the eventuality of disasters; that’s according to an expert working for the non-profit organization, HelpAge International in Colombia.

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