The U.N. flag is seen during the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the world body s headquarters in New York City Sept. 24, 2019.
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Haarlem, The Netherlands A group of young advisers has been counseling United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on climate change as he ramps up warnings of impending “climate calamity” and declares that protecting nature is the “defining task of the 21st century.”
The secretary-general’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, consisting of seven 18- to 28-year-olds from across the world, has been working since late July, giving “frank and fearless advice” to help “hold governments and corporate leaders to account on climate action,” according to the original announcement. Guterres has been so
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed Lebanon’s decision to bring to justice the man found guilty of killing two UN peacekeepers decades ago.
Deputy UN Spokesperson Farhan Haq said on Monday that Mr. Guterres “took note” of the 22 December verdict by the country’s Permanent Military Court, which convicted and sentenced 76-year-old Mahmoud Bazzi to 15 years in prison for the decades-old kidnapping and killing two UN peacekeepers and causing serious injury to a third.
Mr. Bazzi was handed down a life sentence in prison, which, because of his age, was immediately reduced to 15 years.
Secretary-General @antonioguterres takes note of Mahmoud Bazzi’s conviction by Lebanese court for 1980 kidnapping and killing of two @UN peacekeepers. https://t.co/UovcrA9b4l
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Bahrain’s yesterday strongly refuted Qatari claims of airspace violations as “baseless” before a UN body. The allegations that four Bahraini fighter jets violated Qatari airspace, Bahrain UN envoy said, are “baseless, unfortunate and unrelated to facts.”
Bahrain explained its position in a letter sent to Jerry Matthews Matjila, Security Council President for the month, and South Africa’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
The statement by Bahrain’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York Jamal Faris Al Ruwaie affirmed that the allegations are part of “continuous and escalating distortion” practised by Qatar to increase regional tensions.
Covid-19 pandemic has stranded 400,000 seafarers and triggered a humanitarian crisis
Border closures and other restrictions have forcing seafarers into indefinite service, unable to even take shore leave. Representational image. | STR / AFP
It has been rightly described as a humanitarian crisis and a modern form of forced labour.
In the early months of 2020, stranded cruise ships became a stark symbol of the Covid-19 global pandemic. Now it is seafarers stranded on cargo ships.
Before the coronavirus crisis, about 100,000 of these crew changed over each month, typically after serving contracts capped at 11 months under the United Nations Maritime Labour Convention. But since March, border closures and other restrictions have prevented this for many seafarers, forcing them into indefinite service, unable to even take shore leave.