philippines

Students volunteer at a Red Cross logistics centre to pack relief goods for victims of the Taal volcano in the Philippines.
Philippine Red Cross

Philippines volcano: UN stands ready with support, as thousands told to flee

15 January 2020
Humanitarian Aid

The UN is concerned over warnings issued by Philippines’ authorities that volcanic eruptions on the country’s most populous island could last “days, months or even years”. 

Farmers in the Philippines are learning to adapt to changing climatic conditions and the effects of over-cultivation. (August 2018)
BSWM-UNDP Philippines-GEF5 SLM Project

FROM THE FIELD: Balancing act for Philippines farmers

4 September 2019
SDGs

An effort to reverse land degradation in the Philippines and boost sustainable agriculture as well as the livelihoods of farmers, is being supported by the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

Secretary-General António Guterres visits Mandruzi Resettlement Site in Mozambique.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Friday’s Daily Brief: UN chief meets cyclone survivors in Mozambique, Human Rights Council investigates Philippines state violence, UN weather agency tracks Arctic fires

12 July 2019
Climate and Environment

In today’s Daily Brief: UN chief António Guterres condemns airstrikes on Syrian hospitals and meets survivors of Cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique; the UN Human Rights Council votes to investigate the “war on drugs” in the Philippines; and UN weather agency tracks fires…in the Arctic.

UN vehicle on mission to Rukban, Syria.
OCHA/Fadwa Baroud

News in Brief 12 July 2019

12 July 2019
News in Brief
  • UN’s Guterres condemns ongoing airstrikes on Syria’s hospitals, medical workers
  • UN human rights office alarm over death sentences for 30 men in Houthi-held Sana’a
  • Human Rights Council session votes to probe Philippines’ deadly ‘war on drugs’
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A young child walks through the streets in Aleppo, Syria. (April 2019)
UNICEF/Grove Hermansen

Friday’s Daily Brief: electronic hopes and fears, Security Council elections, updates from Libya, Syria, Australia and the Philippines

7 June 2019
Peace and Security

Wrapping up this week, our top stories are: how new technologies are a "vector for hope" and "source of fear", according to UN chief Guterres; new members at the Security Council; the plight of migrants in Libya; war rules violations in Syria; human rights in Australia and the Philippines.

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, at a press briefing on indigenous peoples' collective rights to lands, territories and natural resources on 16 April 2018, at UN Headquarters in New York.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías

UN rights experts call on Philippines Government to halt ‘unacceptable attacks’ on Victoria Tauli-Corpuz

1 May 2019
Human Rights

False claims levelled at the UN expert on the rights of indigenous peoples by her own Government in the Philippines, “are without grounding in fact or law” and must cease immediately, said a statement issued by a group of her fellow experts on Wednesday.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres (file)
UNHCR

UN chief lauds Philippines’ ‘landmark achievement’ on setting up transition authority in Bangsamoro

22 February 2019
Peace and Security

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres congratulated the Philippines on Friday for establishing a government body to push forward the formal creation of an autonomous region.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (file).
UN Photo/Mark Garten

UN chief condemns deadly terrorist attack on church in southern Philippines

27 January 2019
Peace and Security

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned the deadly terrorist attack on a church in restive southern Philippines early Sunday, and has called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice

A man harvests long-blade grass from a field in Mindanao, Philippines.
UNDP Philippines

UN chief welcomes new law giving extra autonomy to Muslims in Southern Philippines

27 July 2018
Peace and Security

The UN Secretary-General on Friday welcomed a new law which grants extra autonomy to Muslim communities living in the Southern Philippines, describing it as a “landmark achievement on the road to lasting peace”.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

UN rights chief denounces ‘unacceptable’ charges of terrorism by Philippine’s Duterte against UN expert

9 March 2018
Human Rights

Flinging terrorism charges at a United Nations human rights expert is just one act in a litany of profane and inflammatory comments made by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte against the rapporteur, prompting the UN rights chief to questions the leader’s mental stability.