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The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Syria introduced on Saturday that the Group is eradicating non-critical employees from the nation, emphasizing that this can be a precautionary step to guard UN personnel “whereas sustaining important operations”.
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An environmental lawyer has advised UN Information how kids and youngsters from a few of the most weak neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, have been moved to tears after encountering nature for the primary time.
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LUSAKA, Zambia, Dec 06 (IPS) – Over the previous few years, new “instruments of management” affecting the work of civil society organisations have multiplied, typically imposing types of “bureaucratic criminalisation” and “administrative harassment”. Specifically, increasingly restrictive and demanding legal guidelines are hurting civil society organisations’s capability to function throughout the globe.
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THE HAGUE & NAIROBI, Dec 06 (IPS) – Kenya agrees with many UN member states testifying earlier than the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice (ICJ) that the legislation of worldwide accountability ought to maintain international locations legally accountable for main injury to the worldwide local weather system.
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LONDON, Dec 06 (IPS) – On 26 December 2004 a strong Asian tsunami swept over a lot of Sri Lanka’s coastal provinces, killing 1000’s of individuals and wildlife, devastating habitats and even washing away a trainload of passengers removed from the rail tracks.
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RIYADH & HYDERABAD, Dec 06 (IPS) – Whereas many delegates on the sixteenth assembly of the Convention of the Events to the UN Conference to Fight Desertification (UNCCD COP16) hope that this may very well be the conference’s personal Paris second—referring to the historic Paris settlement inked by UNFCCC signatories—nonetheless, this hedges closely on the UN events’ seriousness to fight drought, desertification and land degradation.
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Migrants and refugees throughout Latin America and the Caribbean face profound challenges in accessing fundamental wants, formal employment and protected residing circumstances, UN businesses reported on Friday, launching a $1.4 billion regional plan to handle their pressing wants.
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The UN Normal Meeting-mandated staff investigating critical crimes in Syria launched a brand new report on Friday, documenting systematic torture and abuse throughout over 100 Authorities detention services.
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UN Secretary-Normal António Guterres has renewed his name for the fast and unconditional launch of humanitarian personnel who’ve been detained in Yemen for six months, his Spokesperson mentioned on Friday.
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The UN Normal Meeting on Friday adopted a decision serving to strengthen the struggle towards illicit trafficking of cultural property and facilitating the restitution of stolen artifacts to their international locations of origin.