Press conference invitation: UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights presents Nepal mission findings
Online and in the UN House - 9 December at 12 noon (Kathmandu time) On 9 December 2021 at 12...
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Kathmandu Post: ‘We have nowhere to go. The state doesn’t count us as humans’
After years of endless hardships, Thapathali’s squatter settlers tell their pleas to the visiting UN Special Rapporteur, Olivier De Schutter....
States must prioritize health and equality over profits and vaccine hoarding, UN experts say
Omicron and other new variants underline urgency to act GENEVA (29 November 2021) – UN human rights experts* today urged...
Media advisory: UN human rights expert to visit Nepal to assess poverty
In Nepali GENEVA (24 November 2021) – The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter,...
Thomson Reuters Foundation: Lebanon’s most impoverished city, Tripoli’s decades-long decline traces the history of marginalization in Lebanon – and warns of the desperation still to come
By Maya Gebeily TRIPOLI, Nov 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After patiently waiting in line, Umm Mustafa extended two grubby...
Al Jazeera: UN rep slams Lebanon central bank chief over economic crisis
A UN expert blasted the country’s banking sector for failing to recognize its role in the country’s crippling economic crisis....
Press release : Lebanon – UN poverty expert says Government fails population
-------------In Arabic here------------- Watch online here BEIRUT (12 November 2021) – The Lebanese authorities’ destruction of the national currency, political...
Media advisory: UN human rights expert to visit Lebanon to assess poverty
In Arabic ---- click here ---- More information about the visit ---- click here ---- The UN Special Rapporteur on...
Experts send pharma companies, States, EU and WTO letters calling for urgent action on COVID-19 vaccines
Letters published on Tuesday, 19 October 2021, and available now on Special Procedures database. Background: On 14 October 2021, six...
Op-ed: To end poverty, invest in children
Social Europe ‘Poor children are deprived of their childhoods,’ said a woman from a marginalised neighbourhood in the Democratic Republic...
Op-ed: Inclusive education to break the cycles of poverty
IPS/ by Olivier De Schutter and Donald Lee In September 2021, children in the northern hemisphere returned to school after...
Press release: Entrenched inequality condemns the poor for generations, UN expert says
Watch live presentation on 20 October at 10 am EST here. "Poverty and privilege continue to reproduce themselves in vicious...