MIL-OSI Video: Renewable Energy in Cambodia
Source: United Nations (Video News) [embedded content] https://www.youtube.com/embed/4PmT8lkqHZA Renewable energy expert, Karan Sehgal, talks about what IFAD is doing to promote renewable energy for smallholder farmers in Cambodia. MIL OSI Video –
Read More →MIL-OSI Video: Attack in Kabul & other topics – Daily Briefing (16 August 2018)
Source: United Nations (Video News) [embedded content] https://www.youtube.com/embed/1fhsyq3rA6c Daily Press Briefing: Afghanistan, Gaza, UNRWA, Syria, Mali, Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola, Serbia, Central America, World Humanitarian Day Noon briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General. HIGHLIGHTS:– AFGHANISTAN: SECRETARY-GENERAL SPEAKS OUT AGAINST SUICIDE, TALIBAN ATTACKS– SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ISRAEL’S REOPENING OF KEREM SHALOM CROSSING– […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Video: António Guterres (UN Secretary-General) on World Humanitarian Day
Source: United Nations (Video News) [embedded content] https://www.youtube.com/embed/RtCLufCEgaw Video message by H.E. Mr. António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General, on World Humanitarian Day MIL OSI Video –
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: ‘Unconscionable’ to kill aid workers, civilians: UN Emergency Coordinator
Source: United Nations MIL OSI Each year on 19 August, the world pays tribute to the humanitarians who deliver aid to vulnerable communities in some of the most dangerous crises on the planet; some of whom make the ultimate sacrifice. “It is unconscionable that civilians and the aid workers who are trying to help them […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: ‘Unconscionable’ to kill aid workers, civilians: UN Emergency Coordinator
Source: United Nations MIL OSI Each year on 19 August, the world pays tribute to the humanitarians who deliver aid to vulnerable communities in some of the most dangerous crises on the planet; some of whom make the ultimate sacrifice. “It is unconscionable that civilians and the aid workers who are trying to help them […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: ‘Step backwards’ for Bosnia’s autonomous Serb region as assembly reneges on Srebrenica genocide report
Source: United Nations 3 The Republika Srpska National Assembly in Bosnia and Herzegovina drew concern from the top United Nations expert on the Prevention of Genocide on Thursday, over its decision this week to revoke its endorsement of the 2004 Srebrenica Commission Report acknowledging genocide during the Bosnian war of the 1990s. “Rejection of the […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: In Tanzania visit, UNHCR official stresses freedom of choice is crucial for refugee returns
Source: United Nations Refugees should never be pressured to decide if they should return to their home countries, a senior UN official has said. Volker Türk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection with the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Thursday completed a four-day visit to Tanzania, which is hosting more than 340,000 refugees and asylum-seekers. “Refugees […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: Terror attacks strike people ‘from all walks of life, the UN included’
Source: United Nations The terrorist attack on UN headquarters in Iraq in 2003 that claimed the lives of 22 people should serve as a reminder that the organization’s locally recruited staff often face the greatest dangers in the world’s most hostile places, amid increasing attacks on humanitarians, the head of the United Nations in Geneva […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: UN experts cite ‘possible exploitation’ of workers hired to clean up toxic Japanese nuclear plant
Source: United Nations 2 A group of United Nations rights experts are urging the Japanese government to urgently protect tens of thousands or workers hired to help decontaminate the Fukushima nuclear plant, who are reportedly being exploited and exposed to toxic nuclear radiation. “Workers hired to decontaminate Fukushima reportedly include migrant workers, asylum seekers and […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: ‘Passport to dignity’ that schools represent may expire fast, without emergency funding warns UN Palestine refugee agency
Source: United Nations 3 A lack of funds means that the new school term for over half a million Palestinian students could be cut short after just one month, says UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refuge The agency’s 711 schools, providing free basic education for Palestinian refugee children in the […]
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