World Body Proclaims 2022 International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development The General Assembly adopted 59 resolutions and one decision recommended by its Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today, covering a range of issues, from the rights of refugees and others forced to flee their homes, to the provision of universal and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. […]
Day: December 17, 2021
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW IGAD HEADQUARTERS IN DJIBOUTI
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is a Regional Economic Community (REC) of the African Union. Member countries include Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda. IGAD’s mission is “to assist and complement the efforts of the member countries through increased cooperation to achieve food security and environmental protection; promotion and maintenance […]
World at his feet: The ‘lost boy’ who became a humanitarian in South Sudan
This article complements the Annual Partnership Consultation 2021, an event that WFP organizes annually to discuss strategic priorities and coordinated activities with its 800+ international and local NGOs partners “My first memories of the World Food Programme as a child are the cars driving through the streets of Kakuma refugee camp,” says Elijah Manyok Jok – vehicles emblazoned […]
Ethiopia Detains Three Journalists for ‘Promoting Terrorism’
A freelance video journalist accredited to the Associated Press and two other local journalists have been detained in Ethiopia, according to police and the country’s media regulator. Federal police accused the journalists in a statement late on Wednesday of “promoting terrorism” by interviewing members of the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), which parliament has designated a […]
UN Recap: December 12-17, 2021
Here is a fast take on what the international community has been up to this past week, as seen from the United Nations perch. Afghanistan’s economy U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths appealed for flexible and sustained international funding before the end of this year to prevent the further collapse of Afghanistan’s economy. He told VOA […]
UN Establishes Body to Monitor Human Rights Violations in Ethiopia
The U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution to establish an International Commission of Human Rights Experts to investigate allegations of abuses committed by all warring parties in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict. The resolution passed 21 to 15, with 11 abstentions at the end of a daylong special session to address the grave […]