The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday warned of a potential global shortage of up to one to two billion syringes needed to administer COVID-19 vaccinations next year. WHO expert Lisa Hedman told a United Nations (U.N.) briefing that national health authorities should plan in advance to prevent the “hoarding, panic buying” situation that occurred…
WHO Warns of Global Shortage of COVID-19 Vaccine Syringes Next Year
The World Re-Embraces Taiwan
Commentary The international community seems to re-embrace democratic Taiwan, while distancing from communist China, in the context of 50 years after the former was expelled from the United Nations and its seat was given to the latter. On Oct. 26, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged U.N. member states to support Taiwan’s “meaningful participation” in…
President’s UN Speech Aims at Erasing Trump and Contradicting Unnamed Authoritarian Nations
Commentary President Joe Biden’s UN speech on Sept. 22 showed yet again that he has spent so long in the trenches of partisan political conflict that even as the president of the United States, speaking to the world ostensibly on behalf of his country, he can’t help seeing everything beyond our borders (such as they…
UN Official Slams Taliban Over Reprisal Killings
The U.N. human rights chief says her office has received credible allegations of reprisal killings against former Afghan security forces, and cases in which some former officials in the previous government and their relatives were arbitrarily detained—and later turned up dead. Michelle Bachelet, speaking Monday to the Human Rights Council, warned of a “new and…
UN Rights Chief Regrets Lack of Access to Xinjiang
GENEVA—The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights lamented on Monday that efforts to gain access to China’s Xinjiang region to probe reports of serious rights violations of Muslim Uyghurs have not succeeded, adding that she was finalizing a report on the situation. “I regret that I am not able to report progress on my efforts…
UN Employees Face Harassment and ‘Fear for Their Lives’ in Afghanistan
United Nations (U.N.) employees in Afghanistan are being subjected to “harassment and intimidation” at the hands of the Taliban since the terrorist group’s swift takeover of the war-torn nation last month, according to U.N. staff members. “We are, however, increasingly worried by the growing number of incidents of harassment and intimidation against our national staff,” U.N. special…
UN Permits China to Burn Coal for a Decade Longer Than Australia
The United Nations (U.N.) has been criticised for giving China a pass to continue firing up coal power stations until 2040 despite pushing Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and other OECD countries to halt its use by 2030. U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Action Selwin Hart unveiled the new climate road map Monday…
Top UN Climate Advisor Joins the Chorus telling Australia to Cut Coal
Another top United Nations (UN) official will join the international chorus telling Australia it must rapidly phase out coal or else it could suffer devastating climate change consequences. The messages follow the release of the sixth assessment report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which concluded that it was “unequivocal that human influence…
500,000 Afghans Likely to Seek Refuge in Other Countries, UN Warns
The United Nations (UN) said on Friday they are estimating up to half a million Afghan nationals could flee a humanitarian crisis in their homeland in a worst-case scenario. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) appealed to all neighboring countries to keep their borders open for refugees seeking safety after a Taliban takeover of…
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