PAHO News - Pinkfong and PAHO join forces in a new campaign featuring Baby Shark to promote handwashing for young children and help prevent the new coronavirus in the Americas. SmartStudy, the global entertainment company behind the beloved children’s brand, Pinkfong, is joining the Pan American
UN News - The number of people who have received a COVID-19 vaccination now exceeds those reportedly infected, the head of the UN’s health agency said, while warning that after inoculating their own health workers and older people, countries must share doses with others, to
The UN Secretary-General has called for more commitment towards promoting cultural and religious tolerance, in a message to mark the first celebration of the International Day of Human Fraternity, observed on Thursday. “Around the world, deep-seated discrimination, acts of intolerance and hate crimes persist against people
UN NEWS - COVID-19 has caused “widespread upheaval” for the whole fishing and aquaculture industry around the world, the UN deputy agriculture chief said on Tuesday, launching a new report that assesses the toll the pandemic has taken on the sector. “Production has been disrupted, supply
British High Commission - The UK will offer its world leading genomics expertise to help identify new variants of the virus that cause Covid-19 in countries around the world. The announcement comes as part of a speech delivered by UK Health Secretary, Matt Hancock at Chatham
Approximately 700 migrants bound for the United States remain stranded in the Caribbean seas following Colombia's staunch decision to have its borders closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in its territory. Some of the stranded migrants include 647 Haitian nationals, 23 Cubans, and 19
UN NEWS—The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in The Bronx, a few miles uptown from UN Headquarters in New York. In a Tweet, Mr. Guterres expressed his gratitude and good fortune at receiving
Record 4.2 tons of drugs seized near French Caribbean A report by the Associate Press revealed that a record 4.2 tons of cocaine were seized near the waters of Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe. On January 17, the Armed Forces of the Antilles spotted a fishing
Since September, the devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened, infecting close to 100 million people, costing more than $3 trillion in lost wages and intensifying obstacles for peace and security around the world, the UN political chief told the Security Council on Monday. And
UN News - The COVID-19 pandemic “will not end for anyone until it ends for everyone”, an independent UN human rights expert said on Friday, advocating for an equitable and globally-coordinated vaccine distribution programme. “The virus can still travel from the vastly unvaccinated massive population of
