(Bridgetown, 8 May 2020) Ahead of next month’s start to the hurricane season, United Nations Resident Coordinator Didier Trebucq and the UN Sub-regional Team for Barbados and the OECS, launched a joint COVID-19 Multi-sectoral Response Plan (MRP) and US$29.7 million Fund Appeal on Wednesday 6 May to help mitigate the staggering socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 […]
By Mark Lowcock (UN OCHA) and Dr Natalia Kanem (UNFPA) In a week in which people in some parts of the world have been given cause for optimism that they have passed the peak of the pandemic, we have seen how the extraordinary actions of individuals can change the trajectory for a whole nation. Retired […]
THE SECRETARY-GENERAL MESSAGE ON WORLD HEALTH DAY 7 April 2020 World Health Day this year comes at a very difficult time for all of us. My message today is to our health care workers — the nurses, midwives, technicians, paramedics, pharmacists, doctors, drivers, cleaners, administrators and many others — who work, day and night to […]
THE SECRETARY-GENERAL REMARKS AT LAUNCH OF GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLAN FOR COVID-19 New York, 25 March 2020 The world faces an unprecedented threat. The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly covered the globe. It has spread suffering, disrupted billions of lives and endangered the global economy. COVID-19 is menacing the whole of humanity – and so the whole […]
by António Guterres The upheaval caused by the coronavirus – COVID-19 — is all around us. And I know many are anxious, worried and confused. That’s absolutely natural. We are facing a health threat unlike any other in our lifetimes. Meanwhile, the virus is spreading, the danger is growing, and our health systems, economies and […]
Grenada’s human rights record to be reviewed by Universal Periodic Review GENEVA (22 January 2020) – Grenada’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time on Monday, 27 January 2020 in a meeting that will be webcast live. Grenada is one of the 14 States to […]
The organization’s delegation, headed by its Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena, is participating in the 2nd High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation, being held in Buenos Aires. (March 20, 2019) “The modalities of international cooperation must adapt to the new global context and facilitate countries’ development processes with new instruments that are indispensable if we want […]
STATEMENT ON ESCALATING TENSIONS IN VENEZUELA ISSUED BY THE THIRTIETH INTER-SESSIONAL MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is deeply concerned by the recent further escalation of tensions in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the ensuing increase in hardship and suffering of the population exacerbated […]
Grenada has lost its ability to vote in the General Assembly as the United Nations’ Charter lists the country as one of eight countries failing to pay its financial contributions under the terms of article 19 of the UN Charter. However in a statement issued by the Ministry of Finance in response to the report, […]
