# un - Saturday 31 July, 2021
# World Food Programme
# World Food Programme
A catastrophic situation has been predicted in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, southern Madagascar, Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria.
# un - Tuesday 27 July, 2021
# New Job
# New Job
Zappone will be assisting Minister Simon Coveney with United Nations business.
# un - Monday 5 July, 2021
# Minsk
# Minsk
The situation in Belarus has “deteriorated significantly” over the last year.
# un - Tuesday 29 June, 2021
# Ethiopia
# Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s federal government yesterday declared a “unilateral ceasefire” in Tigray.
# un - Friday 28 May, 2021
# Eamon Ryan
# Eamon Ryan
Transport Minister Eamon Ryan, Lithuania and Poland had called for the ICAO to investigate the incident.
# un - Tuesday 25 May, 2021
# Defence Forces
# Defence Forces
Major-General Maureen O’Brien’s appointment to this rank was described as a “great source of pride for the Defence Forces” by Minister for Defence, Simon Coveney.
# United Nations
# United Nations
The 35-year-old daughter of Dubai’s ruler has not been seen in public since a foiled attempt to escape in March 2018.
# un - Friday 16 April, 2021
# AMRI
# AMRI
The Association of Mixed Race Irish has asked the United Nations to visit Ireland and investigate institutional racism here.
# un - Wednesday 24 March, 2021
# Mother And Baby
# Mother And Baby
The Irish Council of Civil Liberties has written a letter to the UN Special Rapporteur.
# un - Sunday 28 February, 2021
# Anti-Coup
# Anti-Coup
Protesters are demanding that the government of Aung San Suu Kyi be restored to power after being ousted.
# un - Monday 22 February, 2021
# Bangladesh
# Bangladesh
The vessel is believed to have departed Bangladesh on 11 February with 90 people on board.
# Collusion
# Collusion
The iconic black activist was shot dead in New York 55 years ago yesterday.
# un - Saturday 20 February, 2021
# Princess Latifa
# Princess Latifa
Mary Robinson says she was ‘horribly tricked’ by Dubai princess’ family.
# un - Friday 19 February, 2021
# Dubai
# Dubai
The princess has not been seen in public since she attempted to escape from the emirate by sea in 2018.
# un - Thursday 4 February, 2021
# Military Coup
# Military Coup
One of the country’s main telecom providers confirmed that authorities ordered it to “temporarily block” Facebook access.
# un - Thursday 14 January, 2021
# Global Warning
# Global Warning
The UN weather agency said the warmest three years on record were 2016, 2019 and 2020.
# un - Friday 1 January, 2021
# Peacekeeping
# Peacekeeping
The Taoiseach described it as an ‘enormous responsibility’.
# un - Thursday 17 December, 2020
# Number 2
# Number 2
The ranking appears in the UN ’s annual Human Development Index.
# un - Saturday 12 December, 2020
# Paris Agreement
# Paris Agreement
Last year Ireland became the second country in the world to declare a climate emergency.
# un - Thursday 10 December, 2020
# Handover
# Handover
Ireland will take its seat on the Council on 1 January 2021.
# un - Tuesday 10 November, 2020
# South Lebanon
# South Lebanon
The United Nations’ Women Peace and Security agenda is 20 years old. What has it accomplished?
# un - Tuesday 13 October, 2020
# Climate Change
# Climate Change
The 2020 State of Climate Services report calls on governments to put more money into early warning systems.
# un - Tuesday 29 September, 2020
# Nine Months
# Nine Months
The US has so far recorded the most deaths from the virus.
# un - Saturday 26 September, 2020
# United Nations
# United Nations
This year’s General Assembly is taking place remotely.
# un - Thursday 18 June, 2020
# Philonise Floyd
# Philonise Floyd
Philonise Floyd’s message by video was to the Human Rights Council.
# un - Thursday 14 May, 2020
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
The UN brief highlighted the mental strains on people fearing that they or loved ones will be infected or die.
# un - Tuesday 12 May, 2020
# Shot In The Arm
# Shot In The Arm
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus did not identify the top candidates.
# un - Friday 1 May, 2020
# Teamwork
# Teamwork
António Guterres was critical of the lack of leadership in response to Covid-19.
# un - Wednesday 1 April, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
Tánaiste Simon Coveney said that “helping them is not only the right thing… it is also the sensible thing for Ireland to do.”
# un - Wednesday 11 March, 2020
# UN Security Council
# UN Security Council
The government is hoping to secure a two-year rotating term on the UN Security Council in 2021.
# un - Wednesday 19 February, 2020
# Warning
# Warning
The UN called on countries to take immediate action to safeguard childrens’ futures.
# un - Saturday 15 February, 2020
# LE Aisling
# LE Aisling
The LÉ Aisling was sold by the Department of Defence in 2017 for €110,000 to a Dutch company.
# un - Sunday 15 December, 2019
# Cop25
# Cop25
Greater ambition for how far countries were willing to go to combat the climate crisis failed to materialise at COP25.
# un - Saturday 9 November, 2019
# Samantha Power
# Samantha Power
Irish-American Samantha Power, who served as a UN ambassador, has had a long and storied career.
# un - Tuesday 5 November, 2019
# Climate Change
# Climate Change
The agreement set goals of preventing another 0.5C to 1C of warming from current levels.
# un - Thursday 26 September, 2019
# United Nations
# United Nations
Higgins was addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York this evening.
# un - Tuesday 24 September, 2019
# Sanctions
# Sanctions
Trump was speaking at the UN General Assembly this afternoon.
# un - Monday 23 September, 2019
# Climate Change
# Climate Change
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump made a brief unscheduled appearance today at the summit.
# Foreign Powers
# Foreign Powers
Asked if he was taking the threat from some Democrats seriously, Trump answered: “Not at all seriously.”
# un - Friday 26 July, 2019
# United Nations
# United Nations
Aid groups have described the spike in violence in Syria’s eight-year civil war as a “nightmare”.
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