United Nations/MANILA BULLETIN United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres presented his priorities for this year at the UN General Assembly in New York, USA on Monday, Feb. 6. “As we look to priorities for this year, a rights-rooted approach is central to achieving our ultimate...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- UN rights chief Volker Turk on Friday called for an end to the "illogic of escalation" between Israel and the Palestinians, amid a spike in deadly violence between the two. Turk criticised Israel for measures that "can only lead to further violence and bloodshed", following a...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The United Nations called Thursday for urgent funding to help 30 million children suffering from acute malnutrition "before it is too late" in countries being hammered by the food crisis. UN agencies said conflict, climate shocks, the Covid-19 pandemic and rising living costs...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The past eight years were the hottest since records began, the United Nations confirmed Thursday, despite the cooling influence of a drawn-out La Nina weather pattern. Last year, as the world faced a cascade of unprecedented natural disasters made more likely and deadly by...
UNITED NATIONS, United States – An estimated five million children under the age of five died in 2021, the United Nations said Tuesday, urging health care investment in underserved communities around the globe to avoid this "immense, intolerable and mostly preventable loss of life." Children...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The United Nations' rights chief voiced alarm Saturday at the grisly murder of LGBTQ rights campaigner Edwin Chiloba in Kenya, calling for more protection of such activists worldwide. "Shaken by the murder of human rights advocate #EdwinChiloba," Volker Turk, the High...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- More than $16 billion is needed to help Pakistan recover from devastating floods that submerged a third of the country last year, and to better resist the impact of climate change, the United Nations said Thursday. In a bid to meet the towering needs, Pakistan Prime Minister...
UNITED NATIONS, United States -- The UN Security Council called for Myanmar's junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi Wednesday as it adopted its first ever resolution on the situation in the turmoil-ridden Southeast Asian country. The 15-member Council has been split on Myanmar for decades and was...
Negotiations on the use of biological weapons will start anew after 20 years of being stalled following an agreement among the state parties. The Permanent Mission of the Philippines to the United Nations disclosed this as it looked forward to the crafting of a legally binding protocol that would...
MONTREAL, Canada — Countries closed in on a historic deal to reverse decades of environmental destruction threatening the world’s species and ecosystems at a marathon UN biodiversity summit on Sunday. After four years of fraught negotiations, more than 190 states were called on to rally behind...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) said it has collaborated with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the government of China to further improve the Philippines' healthcare waste management. On Friday, Dec. 16, the UNDP turned over to the DOH the project called "Learning Experience...
Editorial This year’s major climate summit may have concluded when world leaders and environment advocates departed Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt with a “call for action.” But that 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of Parties (more commonly referred to as COP27) is just...
