From the UN NEWS CENTER:
Poetry gives us hope to scale and climb 'cloudy summits of our time' - UN cultural agency
21 March 2017 – Poetry gives us hope, the United Nations cultural agency today said, lauding verse's ability to shake us from everyday life and remind us of the surrounding beauty and the resilience of the shared human spirit.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56385#.WNFAbPkrIps
UN disability rights committee opens with a call to spotlight gender issues
20 March 2017 – The United Nations committee monitoring efforts to protect rights of persons with disabilities today opened its spring session today in Geneva with a call to pay special attention to gender issues.
“We do urge you to ensure a strong gender basis is built in to your agenda this year, and we urge you to take special care to ensure that the voice and experience of girls and women resonates within your deliberations,” the UN’s Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kate Gilmore told the 17th session of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which runs 12 April
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56380#.WNFCAfkrIps
Nowruz a reminder that heritage helps make resilient, sustainable societies – UN cultural agency
21 March 2017 – In a message on the occasion of Nowruz – the day that celebrates the arrival of the spring season – the head of the United Nations cultural agency urged everyone to embrace the day's values and be inspired by its universal message of peace and solidarity.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56384#.WNFCcvkrIps
Ahead of International Day, UN rights chief urges governments to target hate speech, crimes
20 March 2017 – On the eve of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the United Nations human rights chief today reminded Governments around the world that they have a legal obligation to stop hate speech and hate crimes, and called on people everywhere to “stand up for someone’s rights.”
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56379#.WNFCx_krIps
Toll on refugee and migrant children continues to mount one year after EU-Turkey deal – UNICEF
17 March 2017 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today that one year after the Balkan border closures and the European Union-Turkey Statement, which were aimed at stopping mass migration flows, refugee and migrant children face greater risks of deportation, detention, exploitation and deprivation.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56373#.WNFDEPkrIps
UN aid 'pushed to limits' as 320,000 more civilians may flee west Mosul
20 March 2017 – Humanitarian agencies are bracing for the possibility that in coming weeks about 300,000 to 320,000 civilians may flee the western districts of Iraqi's Mosul city where Government forces are fighting to oust the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh) terrorists, a senior United Nations aid official in the country has said.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56378#.WNFDYfkrIps
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