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UN issues $100m emergency funding and calls for global effort to avert famine

News / 19th November 2020

The UN has earmarked $100m (£75m) in emergency funding for seven countries deemed at risk of famine, warning that without immediate action the world could see “huge numbers of children dying on TV screens”.

Over 1,000 health professionals call for G20 to cancel developing countries’ debt

News / 11th November 2020

Over 1,000 health professionals from 66 countries have signed a letter urging the G20 to cancel the debt of developing countries, ahead of an extraordinary G20 Finance Ministers meeting.

Historic process continues at the UN for a binding treaty on transnational corporations

News / 29th October 2020

Amidst the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, UN member states are negotiating a second revised draft of the groundbreaking treaty on “transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights.”

UN treaty banning nuclear weapons set to enter into force in January

News / 26th October 2020

In what leading campaigners are describing as “a new chapter for nuclear disarmament”, the ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will now come into force on 22 January, after Honduras became the 50th Member State to ratify on Saturday.