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A Bigger and More Relevant Role for Youth Within the UN System - Part II
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Nov 15 (IPS) - The UN Secretary General’s Policy Brief on Meaningful Youth Engagement in Policy and Decision-making Processes offers several ideas on how to ensure youths have a bigger and more relevant role within the UN System.
IPEF: New Cold War Weapon Backfires
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 15 (IPS) - US President Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) is the economic arm of his administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, aimed at countering China’s influence in the region.
Forced Labor: Exposing Dark Web of Fisheries Labour Abuses
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Nov 15 (IPS) - It is a terrifying life experience, cut off from the world and trapped in forced labour aboard fishing vessels, often in high seas or seas beyond the territorial waters of any state. The fishers are isolated under hazardous and horrific working conditions under limited regulatory oversight. More than 128,000 fishers were trapped in forced labour aboard fishing vessels in 2021 alone.
Israel-Palestine crisis: Security Council calls for urgent, extended humanitarian pauses in Gaza
- UN News
The Security Council has passed a resolution calling for the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas and for urgent and extended humanitarian corridors throughout the enclave to save and protect civilian lives. The affirmative vote came following four unsuccessful efforts to take action last month.
World News in Brief: Dozens dead in Yemen shipwreck, Pakistan expulsions ‘must stop’, FAO aids Sudan farmers
- UN News
The UN migration agency IOM on Wednesday appealed for safe migration pathways in the wake of a recent shipwreck off the coast of Yemen.
First Person: UNICEF chief in Gaza visit, bears witness to grave violations against children
- UN News
Grave violations against children, including killing, maiming and abductions, are taking place in the Gaza Strip, according to the Executive Director on the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF.
‘No end in sight’ to rising greenhouse gas emissions, UN weather agency warns
- UN News
Greenhouse gas emissions reached a record high in 2022 with “no end in sight to the rising trend”, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a report published on Wednesday.
Israel-Palestine crisis: UN emergency relief chief unveils 10-point plan ‘to rein in the carnage’
- UN News
The UN’s top emergency relief official unveiled a 10-point plan “to rein in the carnage” in Gaza on Wednesday which focuses on a major expansion of aid into into the wartorn enclave, along with a new call for humanitarian ceasefires and the release of hostages taken during Hamas’s 7 October terror attacks on Israel.
Gaza: ‘Hospitals are not battlegrounds’, children’s suffering must stop, UN humanitarians say
- UN News
Children have been killed, maimed, abducted and denied assistance in Gaza, and the parties to the conflict must “stop this horror”, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) chief Catherine Russell said during a visit to the enclave as humanitarian operations there ground to a halt on Wednesday for lack of fuel.
Deaths in the Israel-Hamas Conflict
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, USA, Nov 14 (IPS) - Tragically, the numbers of deaths of men, women and children in Israel and the Gaza Strip have surged to unprecedented levels following the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023.
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