The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pacific Office in Fiji has launched a new webinar series, to highlight and promote parliamentary innovation and response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. More
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‘I am my brother’s keeper’, Philonise Floyd tells UN rights body, in impassioned plea for racial justice
The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday heard powerful testimony from the brother of George Floyd, whose death, captured on video, while a police officer knelt on his neck for over eight minutes in Minneapolis, has sparked worldwide protest. More
Rights experts call for global opposition to Israel’s annexation plans
Nearly 50 independent human rights experts are calling for the international community to oppose Israel’s plan to annex significant parts of the occupied Palestinian West Bank beginning as early as next month. More
Citing ‘weight of history’, senior UN officials of African descent issue call to ‘go beyond and do more’ to end racism
A group of more than twenty senior leaders in the UN, who report directly to Secretary-General António Guterres, and who are African or of African descent, have put their names to a personal and hard-hitting statement published on Friday, expressing their outrage at pervasive and systemic racism, highlighting the need to ‘go beyond and do more’ than just offering condemnation. More
Heads of State, Business and UN Leaders to discuss covid-19, inequality and climate crises at UN Global Compact Leaders Summit
Virtual event on 15-16 June set to be largest gathering of private sector leaders looking to tackle societal challenges and advance the Sustainable Development Goals
WHAT: United Nations Global Compact 20th Anniversary Leaders Summit
WHEN: 15 – 16 June
WHERE: Virtual summit (registration details below)UNITED NATIONS, New York, 9 June 2020 – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Presidents of Botswana, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia will join dozens of Chief Executive Officers and UN chiefs at the United Nations Global Compact’s Leaders Summit next week to address the private sector’s response to three global crises – COVID-19, inequality and climate.
WHEN: 15 – 16 June
WHERE: Virtual summit (registration details below)UNITED NATIONS, New York, 9 June 2020 – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Presidents of Botswana, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia will join dozens of Chief Executive Officers and UN chiefs at the United Nations Global Compact’s Leaders Summit next week to address the private sector’s response to three global crises – COVID-19, inequality and climate.
With more than 12,000 attendees already registered for more than 100 global, regional and local sessions, the virtual Leaders Summit on 15-16 June will be the UN’s largest, most inclusive and most sustainable convening of purpose-driven business leaders wanting to tackle societal challenges and advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
COVID-19 highlights ‘life and death’ stakes for greater digital cooperation
Managing the digital divide better, has become “a matter of life and death” for people unable to access essential healthcare information during the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN chief has told a virtual high-level meeting on rapid technological change. More
Still much to learn about new coronavirus: WHO
Arrest of Sudanese war crimes suspect ‘extremely significant’: UN rights chief
The arrest of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd–Al-Rahman, commonly known as Ali Kushayb, an alleged former Janjaweed militia leader in the restive Darfur region of Sudan, has been hailed by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as an “extremely significant development”. More
Act now to avert COVID-19 global food emergency: Guterres
Although the COVID-19 pandemic could push nearly 50 million more people into extreme poverty, this and other dire impacts of the crisis can be avoided if countries act immediately to shore up global food security, the UN Secretary-General said. More
No time to take ‘foot off the pedal’ as coronavirus pandemic worsens: WHO
The COVID-19 pandemic is worsening globally, with more than 136,000 cases recorded on Sunday: the highest number in a single day, according to the World Health Organization.