UN issues $100m emergency funding and calls for global effort to avert famine
News / 19th November 2020The UN has earmarked $100m (£75m) in emergency funding for seven countries deemed at risk of famine, warning that without immediate action the world could see “huge numbers of children dying on TV screens”.
Over 1,000 health professionals call for G20 to cancel developing countries’ debt
News / 11th November 2020Over 1,000 health professionals from 66 countries have signed a letter urging the G20 to cancel the debt of developing countries, ahead of an extraordinary G20 Finance Ministers meeting.
Historic process continues at the UN for a binding treaty on transnational corporations
News / 29th October 2020Amidst the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, UN member states are negotiating a second revised draft of the groundbreaking treaty on “transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights.”
UN treaty banning nuclear weapons set to enter into force in January
News / 26th October 2020In what leading campaigners are describing as “a new chapter for nuclear disarmament”, the ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will now come into force on 22 January, after Honduras became the 50th Member State to ratify on Saturday.
World Food Program awarded Nobel Peace Prize for work during pandemic
News / 12th October 2020The Nobel prize for the United Nations World Food Programme turns an important spotlight on the millions who go hungry around the world and on the devastating consequences of conflict.