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UN labor agency: Pandemic job losses four times higher than after 2009 financial collapse
Jan 29, 2021 09:24Surveying the widespread and devastating wreckage the coronavirus pandemic has inflicted on the world economy over the past nine months, the United Nations' labor agency estimated recently that the Covid-19 crisis caused a loss of 8.8% of global working hours in 2020—the equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs.
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Warning world is on 'brink of a catastrophic moral failure,' WHO chief denounces vaccine-hoarding by rich nations
Jan 21, 2021 21:02World Health Organization has criticized wealthy countries and pharmaceutical companies for pursuing their own coronavirus vaccine arrangements, even though such a nationalistic and competitive approach to inoculation threatens to magnify deadly global inequalities while prolonging the Covid-19 pandemic and associated economic crisis.
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Zionist regime and UAE working together to eliminate UNRWA: Report
Dec 29, 2020 19:44The Zionist regime and the United Arab Emirates have been working together to eliminate the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) without solving the issue of Palestinian refugees, French newspaper Le Monde has reported.
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Can anybody still deny that we are facing a dramatic emergency? Asks UN Chief at climate summit
Dec 18, 2020 20:03World leaders aren't doing enough to address the human-caused climate crisis. That seemed to be the main message of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres' speech at the Climate Ambition Summit 2020, hosted by the U.N., the United Kingdom, and France in partnership with Chile and Italy to mark the fifth anniversary of the Paris agreement.
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Johnson and EU vow to go 'extra mile' to thrash out Brexit deal
Dec 15, 2020 21:56Britain and the EU enter the final stretch of the Brexit negotiations with renewed hope of a deal being struck within days after Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen agreed to “go the extra mile” and ordered the resumption of talks in Brussels.
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Few things matter more to humans: UN report says we must protect and restore biodiversity of world's soil
Dec 13, 2020 19:57Despite the critical role played by healthy soil in improving food production, dominant patterns of agricultural intensification—including the overuse and misuse of pesticides and fertilizers—are major drivers of biodiversity loss, thus undermining soil's potential contributions.
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UN warns 1 billion more people headed for extreme poverty by 2030 amid pandemic
Dec 10, 2020 21:02According to the findings of the new study by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the “severe long-term effects” of the global pandemic could push an additional 207 million people into extreme poverty over the next decade.
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Is UN condemnation enough for Zionist regime?
Nov 25, 2020 21:20The world body has to stop releasing statement after statement condemning the Israeli regime and its apartheid policies, and instead take decisive actions to hold the usurper regime and its Western supporters to account. This has to include an international legal push and resolution that forces the Israeli regime and its Western allies to end the occupation of Palestine and allow people there, including Jews, Christians and Muslims, decide their future government through a national referendum.
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Hadi Issa Dalloul: US powerless against Iran at UNSC
Nov 17, 2020 19:47Dr. Hadi Issa Dalloul, international law and nuclear consultant, says Washington is unable to bring back the UNSC sanctions against Tehran, as Moscow and Beijing have adopted their positions against the White House’s move.
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UNHCR chief says for world’s 80m displaced, international aid ‘life-saving’
Nov 05, 2020 19:45The United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi said many refugees live within communities, rather than camps, where they are additionally impacted by the “pandemic of poverty.” Many are informal workers, whose livelihoods have been thrown into disarray. This has led to rising demands for assistance, even in countries that have offered refugees sanctuary for decades.