Today, Daniel Johnson from the UN discusses:
The World Food Programme announced plans to scale up aid – the UN agency is already providing lifesaving help to 8 million people in Yemen…
https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/11/1025301
This week’s press conferences – there are lots of them, but particularly interesting ones include one on Zimbabwe tomorrow by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) – there’s a cholera outbreak there and hunger levels are dangerously high…
Public event this Friday 16 November 12.30pm-2pm – panel debate on “Solidarity, Dialogue and Tolerance” among Nations (amid growing xenophobia, forced displacement, conflicts and human rights abuses) Speakers include an archbishop from the Holy See -The Vatican – and Michael Moller, DG at UNOG.
https://www.unog.ch/80256EE60057D930/(httpPages)/865E8679E56BB3BDC1258328004312C7?OpenDocument&year=2015
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is in Europe – he’s been talking about Syria, Yemen, Ebola and multilateralism…
https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/11/1025461