António Guterres. For daily news updates from UN News, click here. Readers can find information and guidance on the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) from the UN, World Health Organization and UN agencies here. The deeply fractured country is embroiled in a civil war between Khalifa Hifter’s self-styled Libyan National Army and the Tripoli-based, UN-backed Government of National Accord. Act now to avert COVID-19 global food emergency: Guterres, Put women and girls at centre of COVID-19 recovery: UN Secretary-General, UN chief underlines need to protect refugees and migrants in COVID-19 pandemic, ‘COVID-19 is making a global childcare crisis even worse’: UNICEF chief. More than a year after a July 2019 air strike killed more than 50 refugees and migrants and wounded dozens more at a detention center near Tripoli, no one has been forced to account for the deaths, Guterres said. But the U.N. report warned that “economic hardship experienced by families as a result of the global economic downturn could result in an hundreds of thousands of additional child deaths in 2020, reversing the last 2 to 3 years of progress in reducing infant mortality within a single year.”. The United Nations said an estimated 42 million to 66 million children could fall into extreme poverty as a result of the coronavirus crisis this year, adding to the estimated 386 million children already in extreme poverty in 2019. Said the Secretary-General: “With the pandemic placing so many of the world’s children in jeopardy, I reiterate my urgent appeal: let us protect our children and safeguard their well-being.”.

Describing education as “the key to personal development and the future of societies”, António Guterres issued recommendations to get children back in the classroom in a policy brief launched alongside a new global campaign called Save our Future. Polio vaccination campaigns have ceased, thus setting back progress in eradicating the disease in its last two strongholds: Afghanistan and Pakistan. “As we remember so many lives lost, let us never forget that our future rests on solidarity – as people united and as united nations.”, The milestone gives us all "pause for reflection", said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Gehbreyesus in an op-ed published on Tuesday, but represent a moment to come together in solidarity "to fight back against this virus. “Leaders must do everything in their power to cushion the impact of the pandemic. Governments are urged to take steps to counter the unintended effects on children by rolling out or expanding social assistance to families, securing food supply chains and local food markets, and prioritizing the continuity of services such as schooling, nutrition programmes, and maternal and newborn care. Readers can find information and guidance on the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) from the UN, World Health Organization and UN agencies here. In a statement on the new findings, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for urgent action to support the world’s children amid the universal crisis. For daily news updates from UN News, click here. Even those students who can access distance learning face challenges, as success depends on their living conditions, and other factors such as fair distribution of domestic duties.

For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. Additionally, 23 countries have suspended measles immunization campaigns targeting nearly 80 million children. They also should be sensitive to the specific challenges faced by girls and boys, and women and men, while also addressing the digital divide. Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general, said 22% of those detained in Libya's holding facilities for migrants are children.
Nearly 190 countries have imposed school closures, affecting 1.5 billion children and young people.


UN chief Antonio Guterres expressed concern over child casualties in Jammu and Kashmir and urged the government to take preventive measures to protect the children. Though coronavirus infection rates so far have been “far milder” among children, the report found the broader effects of the crisis on child health are significant. “And we need to draw on flexible delivery methods, digital technologies and modernized curricula while ensuring sustained support for teachers and communities.”, Following the release of a UN study that shows at least 40 million children have missed out on early childhood education due to measures to combat COVID-19, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Henrietta Fore, warned that “the pandemic is making a global childcare crisis even worse.”, ♦ Receive daily updates directly in your inbox -. Migrants look at the Italian shoreline from aboard the Ocean Viking as it approaches the Sicilian port of Messina, southern Italy, on September 24, 2019. https://t.co/fD4nwEkqUg pic.twitter.com/71ksZO2DHP. The world body also said in a risk report that nearly 369 million children across 143 countries who normally rely on school meals for a reliable source of daily nutrition have now been forced to look elsewhere.

Science matters. “As the world faces unsustainable levels of inequality, we need education – the great equalizer – more than ever,” he said in a video message.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the loss of 1 million people to the coronavirus is an agonising milestone" that has been made worse by the savageness of this disease". The report underlined that the UN is working across all settings and stands ready to support countries striving to invest in the world’s youngest generation. We cannot leave children vulnerable to disease. Migrants in boats bound for Italy or other European countries are often intercepted by the Libyan coast guard and forcibly transferred to government-affiliated detention centers.

As the relentless hunt for a vaccine continues – a vaccine that must be available and affordable to all – let’s do our part to save lives,” said Mr. Guterres. — António Guterres (@antonioguterres) September 29, 2020 The pain has been multiplied by the “savageness” of the disease, the Secretary-General added, noting that the risk of infection kept families from being with their loved ones, and the process of mourning and celebrating a life was often made impossible. Meanwhile, hastily implemented lockdown measures risk disrupting food supply chains and local markets, posing a potentially grave threat to food access.

African migrants arrive at a naval base in the Libyan capital Tripoli on October 11, 2017, after they were rescued from a rubber boat by coastguards off the Libyan coast of Sabratha. Read more:Libya coast guard detains 400 migrants bound for Europe: UN, Italy to renew deal with Libya to block migrants. For daily news updates from UN News, click here. With classrooms shuttered, the nearly 310 million children worldwide who rely on school meals are missing out on this daily dose of nutrition.

“And this alarming figure does not even take into account services disrupted due to the crisis – it only reflects the current relationship between economies and mortality, so is likely an under-estimate of the impact,” said the report. The report further recommends specific protections for the most vulnerable children, such as migrants, refugees, minorities, children with disabilities, and those living in slums. Readers can find information and guidance on the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) from the UN, World Health Organization and UN agencies here.

Human Rights Watch has documented “severe overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, malnutrition, and lack of adequate health care” inside the facilities. UN’s Antonio Guterres concerned over new report saying nearly 6,200 children were recruited over a six year period. “The potential losses that may accrue in learning for today’s young generation, and for the development of their human capital, are hard to fathom,” it said. You’re now subscribed to Al-Monitor.

Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general, said 22% of those detained in Libya's holding facilities for migrants are children.

So far it has infected more than 2 million people - killing some 138,000 - in 213 countries and territories, according to a Reuters tally. All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. For his final recommendation, the UN chief highlighted what he sees as the “generational opportunity” to deliver quality education for all children, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A learning crisis existed even before the pandemic, the Secretary-General said, as more than 250 million children were out of school. “Thankfully, children have so far been largely spared from the most severe symptoms of the disease. Describing education as “the key to personal development and the future of societies”, António Guterres issued recommendations to get children back in the classroom in a policy brief launched alongside a new global campaign called Save our Future. This story contains reporting from Agence France-Presse. Over the course of 2020 thus far, the coronavirus has taken hundreds of thousands of lives, infected millions of people, and wreaked socio-economic, humanitarian and human rights havoc, the United Nations said in a new report released on Wednesday. Earlier this week, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners reported that with more children relying on technology for learning and socializing, the risk of online abuse and exploitation is rising. Hospitals and health facilities overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients are making it difficult for children to access standard care. Secretary-General António Guterres visited a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) installation that displays 3,758 school backpacks as headstones to illustrate the grave scale of child deaths in conflict in 2018 and call for greater protection of children living in conflict. A nurse takes a girl’s temperature at a Primary Health Care Centre in Beirut, Lebanon, during the COVID-19 outbreak. Children work from home in Guatemala following guidelines received from the Ministry of Education during the COVID-19 pandemic. All rights reserved. “We must act now on each of these threats to our children,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.