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Sixty-fourth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs Sixty-fourth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs 12 – 16 April 2021 The Commission of Narcotic Drugs (CND) is the central policy-making body for the UN drug control system, which meets on an annual basis . The 64th session of the CND will take place in Vienna, Austria, from 12-16 April 2021. In light of the current Covid-19 situation, the event will be in a hybrid format, allowing for online participation. A vote is e...

English Analysis on World and 5 other countries about Coordination, Education, Epidemic and more; published on 10 Mar 2021 by UNICEF

Urgent action needed to meet SDG to end child marriage by 2030 Format International Women’s Day When Tseganesh from Ethiopia was 14 years old, she became friendly with a man who was known to the family. Life already held challenges but with school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, circumstances changed significantly for her. The man offered her money to buy whatever she needed and shortly afterwards, he proposed to her. She soon realized that if she agreed, her hopes of continuing with h...

Urgent action is needed to meet SDG to end child marriage by 2030 News 8 March 2021 © UNFPA/Luis Tato International Women’s Day When Tseganesh from Ethiopia was 14 years old, she became friendly with a man who was known to the family. Life already held challenges but with school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, circumstances changed significantly for her. The man offered her money to buy whatever she needed and shortly afterwards, he proposed to her. She soon realized that if she agree...

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Visionaries make all efforts to wipe out cervical cancer 27 Feb 2021 Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter Nine hundred sixty-eight authorities as well as supporters of local and international programmes against the rise of cervical cancer, caused by the highly transmittable Human Papillomavirus (HPV), have affirmed their commitment to the “Second Sharjah Declaration on Cervical Cancer 2021.” The 968 from 11 countries spread in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas were the vir...

(MENAFN - Gulf Times) Qatar affirmed that the high-level political dialogue between the Iraqi and Qatari judiciaries is one of the fruits of the Global Programme for the Implementation of the Doha Declaration to consolidate the rule of law and enhance the effectiveness of criminal justice systems. The political dialogue between the two countries was held in Vienna on Thursday under the supervision of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in the presence of HE President of the S...

Publication Date: 02/12/2021 The WHO FP Accelerator project supports partners and ministries of health (MoH) to accelerate quality and rights-based family planning (FP) services within the broader frameworks of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the WHO 13th Global Programme of Work (GPW13). The project contributes specifically to attainment of SDG targets 3.1, 3.7 and 5.6, and to the GPW13 goal of 1 billion more people covered by UHC. The WHO-FP Accel...

Thursday, 11 February 2021, 8:26 pm The threat to international peace and security posed by ISIL terrorist fighters is “on the rise again”, the UN counter-terrorism chief told the Security Council on Wednesday. Despite the competing priorities brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, Vladimir Voronkov, head of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), said that it was “crucial” for Member States to remain focused and united in thwarting terrorism. “While ISIL has not developed a purposefu...

UNITED NATIONS -- The threat to international peace and security posed by ISIL terrorist fighters is "on the rise again," the UN counter-terrorism chief Vladimir Voronkov told the Security Council on Wednesday.