WHO: Mandatory vaccinations are a last resort
The World Health Organization (WHO) warns against mandatory vaccinations unless all other options have been exhausted.
Dr Hans Kluge, the Europe Director of WHO told...
Grandparents bridge generations with climate exhibition for children
This autumn, Grandparents for Climate organised a tailor-made exhibition for children on climate action and biodiversity in the city library of Genk, Belgium.
Against the...
COVID-19: What is the Omicron variant?
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the new Omicron (or B.1.1.529) variant of the coronavirus, reported on November 24 in South Africa, to...
Why we all should care about toilets
“Who cares about toilets? 3.6 billion people do. Because they don’t have one that works properly.”
That is the starting point of this 2021 Campaign...
Papillomavirus: preventing cancers by vaccinating young people, including boys
One year ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a prevention campaign on the transmission and risks of HPV to encourage young men and...
Climate Action: Dutch youngsters make leather from mangoes
More than half of the mangoes in Europe are imported into or traded by the Netherlands, but many are unfit for sale and thrown...
COP26: A snapshot of the agreement
After extending the COP26 climate negotiations an extra day, nearly 200 countries meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, adopted on Saturday an outcome document that, according...
New Glasgow Climate Pact: “welcome steps, but not enough”
The UN Secretary-General said at the conclusion of COP26 in Glasgow that there was “not enough political will to overcome some deep contradictions.“
In a...
UN Secretary-General: Encouraging signs in Glasgow but not enough
The UN Secretary-General says that announcements on climate action at COP26 have been encouraging but are “far from enough.”
“The emissions gap remains a devastating...
UNRIC Library Backgrounder: Belarus
Are you looking for information on the current situation in Belarus? Then check out this backgrounder.
UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter – November 2021
monthly issue of the UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter featuring new UN websites and publications, with a special focus on climate change and COVID-19 information
Ireland’s human rights record to be examined by Universal Periodic Review
GENEVA (8 November 2021) – Ireland’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third...
COVID-19: Europe and Central Asia, epicentre of new rise
About 22 months since the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, and almost a year since the first vaccines were approved, reported cases and deaths from the...
UNDP and Mobile Film Festival screen top 50 one-minute films at...
In partnership with the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Global Programme on Nature for Development, the 17th Mobile Film Festival has selected top 50 short (1-minute...
UN Secretary-General at COP26: “Either we stop it — or it...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres says that addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink: "We face a stark choice: Either we...