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WHO calls for moratorium on booster COVID-19 vaccine shots until end of Se
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], August 4 (ANI): WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said the global body is calling for a moratorium on booster COVID-19 vaccine shots until the end of September to ensure equitable access to vaccines.
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June air travel recovery continues to disappoint: IATA
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 31 (ANI): The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced passenger demand performance for June showing a very slight improvement in both international and domestic air travel markets.
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More than 100,000 children in Ethiopian Tigray are at risk of malnutrition
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland] July 30 (ANI/FENA): More than 100,000 children in Ethiopia's Tigray region could suffer from severe acute malnutrition in the next 12 months, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
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COVID-19 infections rise, Delta variant spreads to 132 countries: WHO
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 29 (ANI): The global number of new COVID-19 cases reported last week (19-25 July) was over 3.8 million, an 8 per cent increase as compared to the previous week, the UN health agency reported on Wednesday.
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EC slots decision damages sustainability, industry recovery: IATA
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 26 (ANI): The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has branded the European Commission's (EC's) decision to set winter slot use threshold at 50 per cent as 'out of touch with reality' and argued that the EC had ignored advice and evidence presented by EU
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WHO seeks cooperation after China refuses to participate in COVID-19 origi
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 23 (ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for cooperation from countries in finding the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic after China refused to participate in the second probe, saying it is not about "politics and blame game".
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India among WTO's 5 member nations to produce 75pc of world's COVID-19 vac
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 22 (ANI): Five member states of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) alone will account for three-quarters of the entire global output of COVID-19 vaccines this year, said Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Wednesday.
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Remarks by UN Special Rapporteurs on Khori Goan, Supreme Court directions
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 18 (ANI): India on Saturday termed as "abuse of position" remarks made by a group of UN Special Rapporteurs on Khori Gaon settlement in Faridabad and on Supreme Court directions and said the country's commitment to the protection of human rights is well established
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Myanmar political crisis risks damaging entire generation of children, war
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 17 (ANI): Due to the ongoing political crisis, children's rights in Myanmar are facing an onslaught that risks leaving an entire generation damaged, the UN Child Rights Committee (CRC) has warned.
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UN rights chief calls for release of detained protesters in Cuba
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 16 (ANI): Amid the reports of detention of protesters in Cuba, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday called for the release of all those who have been detained for exercising their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, or freedom of ex
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Coup, COVID fuelling 'perfect storm' in Myanmar: UN expert
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 16 (ANI): The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar has called for emergency international engagement to deal with a "perfect storm" of factors that are fuelling the coronavirus led crisis in the country.
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Asking China to cooperate on raw data of COVID-19, says WHO chief
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 15 (ANI): The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday called on China to cooperate in the investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, the first cases of which were reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019.
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