whole continent is on the move, warns WFP — Global Issues

UN launches crowdfunding campaign to head off decaying oil tanker threat — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

The goal is to raise funds to start the $80 million emergency operation to transfer oil from the FSO Safer to a temporary vessel.  The FSO Safer is moored off Yemen’s Red Sea coast and contains more than a million barrels of oil.  The tanker is beyond repair, and the…

whole continent is on the move, warns WFP — Global Issues

Myanmar’s multidimensional crises have ‘deepened and expanded dramatically’ — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Noeleen Heyzer said that since she took up the job six months ago, Myanmar has “continued to descend into profound and widespread conflict”. Already one of the world’s largest refugee emergencies, she reminded that multidimensional crises there have left over one million internally displaced people (IDPs) across the country with “serious…

whole continent is on the move, warns WFP — Global Issues

Support ‘deep aspiration’ for reform, top envoy urges Security Council — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

El-Ghassim Wane, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Mali, urged ambassadors to support the renewal of the mandate of the UN Mission there, MINUSMA, which he heads.  Although the West African country continues to face political, security and humanitarian challenges, “they are far from being insurmountable,” he said.  Deep aspirations …

whole continent is on the move, warns WFP — Global Issues

Ukraine and rising global insecurity, test for us all, says UN rights chief — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Nearly four months since the Russian invasion, Michelle Bachelet used her final keynote address to the Geneva forum, to urge Member States not to give up on the post-COVID-19 plan “to recover better”, and not repeat the kind of devastating global financial meltdown which took place in 2008. Failure to…

whole continent is on the move, warns WFP — Global Issues

Pioneering Namibia MP, Indonesia family planning board, win 2022 UN Population Award — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

The individual laureate is Member of Parliament Emma Theofelus, who is currently the Deputy Minister of Information in Namibia and the youngest-ever winner of the Award. The institutional laureate from Indonesia, BKKBN, is a non-ministerial Government agency that formulates national policies, implements family planning initiatives and mentors experts in the…

whole continent is on the move, warns WFP — Global Issues

UN calls on militants in eastern DR Congo to ‘immediately cease’ civilian attacks — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said the UN was “concerned over the deteriorating security situation…and the increase of attacks against civilians by the Cooperative for Development of the Congo (CODECO) and the M23 as well as the on-going presence of other foreign armed groups, including the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), Red Tabara and the…

whole continent is on the move, warns WFP — Global Issues

Maritime students send special SOS to upcoming UN Ocean Conference — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

These future maritime leaders, studying at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, based in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria, also used two powerful symbols in their video: an anchor, immediately recognizable in any language, and Semaphore, another universal way to communicate on the high seas, using…

whole continent is on the move, warns WFP — Global Issues

The South Sudanese refugee helping others through trauma — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Ms. Tiep lives and works in Omugo II, an extension of Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement, which is home to 43,000 refugees from South Sudan.  After receiving counselling from the Spotlight Initiative, a UN-EU partnership, she became a volunteer psychosocial support assistant with an NGO in Uganda, helping other women and…