UN Daily News - 21 April 2016

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Issue DH/7142 Thursday, 21 April 2016

In the headlines

• At UN, Forest Whitaker calls on leaders to ensurebeneits o !lobal !oals "touch ever#one$

• As UN concludes session on %orld dru! problem,States reairm commitment to tackle the comple&issue

• "'ake peace #our choice$ ur!es UN envo#, as(emen peace talks be!in in )u%ait

• UN sa#s *aris A!reement on climate chan!e mustaim or lon!-term environmental stabilit#

• UN ur!es action on sustainable development tocreate path%a#s or !lobal +transormation+

• mmuniation "!ame-chan!ers$ should be the norm%orld%ide, sa#s UN health a!enc#

• .undreds evacuated rom our besie!ed areas inS#ria / UN mediator

• 0ib#a1 UN envo# calls or sae evacuation ocivilians cau!ht up in 2en!hai i!htin!

• UN and World 2ank chies announce members o 3oint hi!h-level panel on %ater

• UN !uidelines and ne% technolo!ies boost eortsto help curb +!host ishin!+

• Ecuador earth4uake1 UN relie chie calls or moresupport to vulnerable communities

• Nepal1 one #ear ater earth4uake, UN ood reliea!enc# ocuses on most vulnerable

At !", #orest $hita%er &alls on leaders to ensure 'ene(its o(glo'al goals )tou&h e*eryone+

21 April – Peacebuilding advocate and Academy Award-winningactor Forest Whitaker addressed world leaders today at the United

Nations, asking them to ensure that the beneits o the !ustainable"evelo#ment $oals %!"$s& can touch everyone worldwide'

(ast !e#tember, UN )ember !tates ado#ted the *++ Agenda or!ustainable "evelo#ment which eatures the . global goals towi#e out #overty, ight ine/uality and tackle climate change over thene0t 1 years'

As !#ecial 2nvoy or Peace and 3econciliation or the UN4s2ducational, !cientiic and 5ultural 6rgani7ation %UN2!56& as wellas one o . !"$ advocates a##ointed by !ecretary-$eneral 8an

9i-moon in :anuary, Forest Whitaker took to the #odium o the UN$eneral Assembly at the o#ening o a ;igh (evel


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;is second obBective, he said, is to get leaders to hel# =swarms o #eo#le around the world come together to move theim#ortant agenda orward or the #lanet' !ince ounding his #eace initiative, )r' Whitaker has been involved in em#oweringyouth, es#ecially in Uganda, !outh !udan, )e0ico and the United !tates'

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)a%e pea&e your &hoi&e+ urges !" en*oy, as een pea&e tal%s'egin in uwait

21 April – Following a three-day delay, the United Nations-brokered

#eace negotiations among Eemeni #arties started today in 9uwait,with the aim o reaching an agreement on a clear way to end theviolence and devastation in the country'

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!" says aris Agreeent on &liate &hange ust ai (or long3ter en*ironental sta'ility

21 April – As global leaders #re#are to sign the Paris Agreement on

climate change tomorrow at United Nations ;ead/uarters in NewEork, the head o the UN 6ice or "isaster 3isk 3eduction todaycalled on signatories to go beyond their e0isting commitments toreduce greenhouse gas emissions i the world is to avoid catastro#hicuture weather events'

=? welcome the act that over + countries have declared they aresigning u# to the Paris Agreement but we are in real danger o

being overtaken by the ra#id #ace o global warming i signatories donot signiicantly scale u# the level o their ambition to reduce

greenhouse gas emissions, said 3obert $lasser, the UN !#ecial 3e#resentative or "isaster 3isk 3eduction'

=?t is clear that weather and climate are im#licated in G+ #er cent o maBor disaster events attributed to natural ha7ards'"roughts, loods, storms and heatwaves have the #otential to undermine many develo#ing states4 eorts to eradicate #overty' 5limate change is adding to #re-e0isting levels o risk uelled by e0#osure and socio-economic vulnerability, headded'

?ndeed, in order to kee# the global s#otlight ocused on climate change and build on the strong momentum generated by theParis Agreement, global leaders will #artici#ate tomorrow in a signature ceremony hosted by UN !ecretary-$eneral 8an9i-moon'


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)r' (ykketot reminded #artici#ants that a little more than si0 months ago, many o them had gathered in the same hall toembrace the *++ Agenda or !ustainable "evelo#ment'

=?t was a moment o genuine ho#e in a world beset by crises – ho#e that was built on in Paris through an incredible breakthrough on climate change, he said'


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=$overnments are in the driversK seat' "omestic #ublic inance will be im#ortant keys to ownershi# and sustainability, hesaid' =8ut we must also harness the ull #ower o oicial develo#ment assistance, the 8retton Woods institutions and

#rivate-sector inancing'


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"es#ite challenges im#osed by 2bola, including or routine immuni7ation coverage, the Arican 3egion became one-ste#closer to being certiied #olio-ree with the removal o Nigeria rom the list o #olio-endemic countries' As recently as *+*,the country accounted or more than hal o all #olio cases worldwide' Now, only two countries – Aghanistan and Pakistan

– remain #olio endemic'


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• community involvement• better access to immuni7ation services or marginali7ed and dis#laced #o#ulations• strong health systems• access to vaccines in all #laces at all times

?n strengthening the /uality and use o data, the World ;ealth Assembly #assed a resolution last year on vaccine #ricing,which called on countries to #rovide their vaccine #rices to W;6' air dro#s@, which have reached an estimated 1,+++ #eo#le, according to World Food Programme %WFP&' ;e said WFPhas re#orted that it #lans to double the number o the agency4s air dro#s, and that he ho#ed the re/uired unding would bemade available'

As or issues o concern he said =we are not yet there on the #arties allowing in medical su##lies' ?tems like dialysise/ui#ment have still not been allowed through' ?n addition, vitamins, antibiotics, #ain killers, surgical items, and basicmedical kits were not allowed by the )inistry o ;ealth in !yria the other day when they were su##osed to go by convoy'

n 0adaya, Syria, local community members help o..load anddistribute humanitarian aid supplies" %hoto* WF%&Hussam Al Saleh


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=And this is not only worrisome but unacce#table according to international law' 2ven the worst enemies should allow this,said )r' de )istura, reiterating that medical items have become an urgent #riority re/uest rom the humanitarian taskorce,in #articular to the $overnment o !yria'

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!" guidelines and new te&hnologies 'oost e((orts to help &ur'ghost (ishing

21 April – ?nternational guidelines being develo#ed by a United Nations agency and new technologies are e0#ected to boost eorts to

cut down levels o abandoned ish gear, which oten continues tocarry out the ca#ture #rocess, entangling ish and other marineanimals in its nets, a #henomenon known as =ghost ishing'

What is known as abandoned, lost and otherwise discarded ishinggear makes u# a signiicant #ortion o all debris in the oceans,accounting or about one-tenth o all marine litter, translating intohundreds o thousands o tonnes annually'

$rowing concern over this #roblem, cou#led with the increasingavailability o new technologies, has led the UN Food and Agriculture6rgani7ation %FA6& to begin develo#ing international guidelines on

the eective tagging o ishing gear as a way to cut down levels o troublesome sea trash'

Guidelines in the works

Past eorts to develo# international guidelines have been largely ragmented'


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ca#ture and relect sound energy back to its source'

(ights have long been an integral #art o ishing gear markers or the night but today energy-eicient (2"s are being ittedwith solar #anels, am#liying their eectiveness'

:&uador earth;ua%e !" relie( &hie( &alls (or ore support to

*ulnera'le &ounities21 April –


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