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capital Newspaper Ambassador Valentine Rugwabiza from Rwanda is one of only a handful of African female Permanent Representatives of their countries to the UN in New York. In Africa Renewal’s series profiling the African women representing their countries at UN Headquarters, she spoke with Zipporah Musau about her priorities, the challenges so far and why she is advocating for more female Permanent representatives. Here are excerpts: Africa Renewal: Let’s start with your journe...

Greater sustainability demanded at international level A topic of international importance Greater sustainability demanded at international level Many facets of poverty are actually worsening around the globe. This can be seen in part as the expression of a lack of sustainability in efforts to overcome poverty. With a post-2015 development agenda, the international community is aiming to remedy this state of affairs. Photo: picture alliance / dpa • The gap between poor and rich • The unstab...

As part of the group of six like-minded countries, Slovenia has always worked towards eliminating the growing differences in the vaccination rate among EU Member States. The overall goal was to eliminate these differences to the greatest extent possible with the supply of 10 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to achieve a 70% vaccination rate of the adult population in all Member States by early summer. Member States had different interests and views regarding the distribution of these 10 ...

(Latvian Public Broadcasting) By the end of the summer, Latvia will receive an additional 210 thousand doses of BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19, the Ministry of Health said April 15. The additional vaccines, which are expected to start being delivered in the last week of April, will come to Latvia from a total of 50 million doses of BioNTech/Pfizer vaccines, which will be supplied by the manufacturer to the European Union (EU) in addition to the 200 million...

OAS resolution supports St Vincent 2 Hrs Ago Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves sitting with senior citizens who had to evacuate their homes at the Thomas Saunders Secondary School in Kingstown, which has been turned into an emergency shelter. PHOTO COURTESY SEARCHLIGHT NEWSPAPER, ST VINCENT - SEARCHLIGHT NEWSPAPER THE Organisation of American States (OAS) expressed support for St Vincent and the Grenadines on Thursday as that country continues to deal with the fallout from the eruption of the L...

Temporary Representative of the Philippines to the AICHR Assistant Secretary Jaime Victor B. Ledda represents the Philippines during discussions on human rights in ASEAN on 8 April 2021. (Photo courtesy of AICHR Brunei) PASAY CITY, Apr. 12 -- ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) Philippine Representative Jaime Victor B. Ledda joined representatives of other ASEAN Member States in discussing current developments on human rights in the region and expressed deep concern over ...

Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet Friday, 9 April 2021 Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank the President of the General Assembly and the Permanent Representatives of Chad and Costa Rica to the United Nations in New York, for their leadership in the intergovernmental process to define the modalities, format, and the substantive and procedural aspects of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. This is an important moment in history...

Philippines to Myanmar: Adhere to ASEAN Human Rights Declaration Pia Lee-Brago © STAR/File Philippines to Myanmar: Adhere to ASEAN Human Rights Declaration MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has called on Myanmar to adhere to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Human Rights Declaration amid the rapidly deteriorating situation in the Southeast Asian nation. During the 33rd meeting of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights held recently throu...

04/08/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/08/2021 22:49 ASEAN, Australia commit to enhance cooperation despite COVID-19 pandemic JAKARTA, 8 April 2021 - ASEAN and Australia reaffirmed their commitment to enhance cooperation under ASEAN-Australia strategic partnership during the 11 th ASEAN-Australia Joint Cooperation Committee Meeting held virtually today. Both sides reviewed the implementation of the ASEAN-Australia Plan of Action (2020-2024) and noted the progress that has been...

Joint article UNITED NATIONS: March, women’s history month, closes with the Generation Equality Forum in Mexico and against the background of significant setbacks on the empowerment of women caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. From our seats in the General Assembly and our screens at home we have seen it growing: the increase in deaths; gender-based, including intimate partner, violence; abuse of women and girls who speak out; the widening of the gender gap for access to digital technologies; t...