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United Nations Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres spoke this week at the Global
Vaccine Summit, urging world leaders to ensure
that a coronavirus vaccine would be available
and affordable for everyone in the world. UN
Foundation President Elizabeth Cousens and
former World Health Organization
Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland urged
world leaders to fund the development of a
vaccine to fight the pandemic, which WHO leaders
warn will not end until the disease is
eradicated everywhere. Full Story: Reuters
(6/5), The Guardian (London)
(6/4), NDTV (India)/Agence
France-Presse
(6/4)
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Members of the United Nations
Security Council this week voted unanimously to
extend the UN's joint peacekeeping mission with
the African Union in Sudan's Darfur region until
the end of the year, while moving toward ending
it. The council also voted to replace UNAMID
with a civilian mission aimed at supporting the
country's political transition and charged UN
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to name an
envoy to head up the new mission, to be known as
the United Nations Integrated Transition
Assistance Mission in Sudan. Full Story: The Associated Press
(6/3), The Arab Weekly (London) (6/4)
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The war on illegal drugs waged in
the Philippines by President Rodrigo Duterte and
his government has given law enforcement
officers permission to kill drug offenders with
near impunity, says a report from United Nations
Human Rights Office. The report estimates that
at least 8,600 people have been killed since
July 2016 in the country's drug crackdown, but
notes that further investigation is needed to
verify the number. Full Story: BBC
(6/4), Voice of America (6/4)
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Free Malaysia
Today/Agence France-Presse (6/3)
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The Jakarta Post
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Two pregnant women in Yemen have
died from complications in childbirth after
local medical facilities run by the United
Nations Population Fund were closed due to a
lack of funding. The UNFPA has received only 41%
of the $100.5 million it needs this year to
outfit maternity wings in local hospitals and
pay 3,800 health care workers. Full Story: Thomson Reuters
Foundation
(6/4)
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Everyone around the world has
played a role in damaging and destroying natural
environments and everyone must play their part
in helping protect the earth from further
damage, says United Nations Environment
Programme Executive Director Inger Andersen in a
message marking World Environment Day today. "To
care for humanity, we must care for nature," UN
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
says. Full Story: Dhaka Tribune
(Bangladesh)
(6/5), The Gulf Today (United Arab
Emirates)
(6/4)
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Forces under the command of the
United Nations-backed Government of National
Accord in Libya have driven General Khalifa
Haftar and his army out of the capital city of
Tripoli. A UN envoy held cease-fire talks with
representatives for Haftar earlier this week and
plans similar talks with the Libyan government
in the coming days. Full Story: The Guardian (London)
(6/4), The Associated Press (6/3)
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Modern Ghana/Agence
France-Presse (6/4)
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Rappler
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Philippines drug campaign
directive seen as 'permission to kill': UN
rights office Full Story: UN News (6/4)
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