Topic: UN
As COVID deaths pass 2 million, UN warns against self-defeating ‘vaccinationalism’
With more than two million lives now lost worldwide to COVID-19, the UN Secretary-General appealed on Friday for countries to work together and help each other to end the pandemic and save lives.
UN calls on Israel to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccines for Palestinians under occupation
Israel’s “impressive” vaccination programme against the COVID-19 pandemic must include Palestinians under occupation, UN independent human rights experts stressed on Wednesday.
Close Guantánamo camp: UN urges incoming US administration
Exactly 19 years after the Guantánamo Bay detention centre first opened, UN independent human rights experts on Monday urged the incoming United States administration of Joe Biden, to close the notorious military prison as soon as possible.
COVID-19 recovery offers chance to change course: UN chief
The process of recovery from the coronavirus pandemic offers the chance to change course, and put humanity on a path on which it is not in conflict with nature, the United Nations Secretary-General said on Monday, urging greater efforts by everyone to protect biodiversity and step up climate action.
Top UN officials saddened by violent scenes at US Capitol building
Top UN officials, including the Secretary-General and the President of the General Assembly have expressed sadness over the violence that erupted on Wednesday when supporters of President Trump stormed the US Capitol building, temporarily bringing to a halt the disputed certification of November’s presidential election result.
UN welcomes UK court refusal to extradite Julian Assange
An independent UN human rights expert has welcomed a British court’s refusal to extradite Wikileaks founded Julian Assange to the United States on the basis that he would be exposed to oppressive conditions of imprisonment.
