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22 May: The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warns that war-torn Yemen's health system has ‘in effect, collapsed” in the face of a widening COVID-19 outbreak. [ 291 ] 28 May: UN agencies and global partners announce they are seeking $2.41 billion to fight COVID-19 spread in Yemen and to support millions affected in the ...
OCHA has built up a range of services in the execution of its mandate. Some of the larger ones are: IRIN, Integrated Regional Information Networks, a humanitarian news and analysis service [10] (1995–2014) Since 1 January 2015, IRIN now operated as an independent news service, The New Humanitarian, and is no longer affiliated with OCHA. [11]
In conjunction with the emerging global women's movement, the UN and the CSW named 1976 through 1985 the United Nations Decade for Women. During this time, reproductive rights were included in the central action of the commission, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which entered into force in ...
OHCHR presence at the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in Kenya. The mandate of OHCHR derives from Articles 1, 13 and 55 of the Charter of the United Nations, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and General Assembly resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, by which the Assembly established the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. [8]
In a joint statement, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration, the UN human rights office (OHCHR), and the World Health Organization stressed that "refugees, migrants and displaced persons are at heightened risk of contracting the new coronavirus disease" as health systems threatened to be overwhelmed. [56]
Besides the torture of men and women arrested for demanding social and political justice, the Amnesty report also threw light on the negligence of health care measures for the protection of prisoners against the COVID-19 pandemic. Philip Luther, the Middle East and North Africa Research and Advocacy Director for Amnesty International told that ...
UNHCR presently has major missions in Lebanon, South Sudan, Chad/Darfur, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kenya to assist and provide services to IDPs and refugees in camps and in urban settings. UNHCR maintains a database of refugee information, ProGres, which was created during the Kosovo War in the 1990s. The database ...
Life expectancy development in UK by gender Comparison of life expectancy at birth in England and Wales. Healthcare in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter, with England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales each having their own systems of publicly funded healthcare, funded by and accountable to separate governments and parliaments, together with smaller private sector and voluntary provision.