Month: July 2023

“Stateless people are often invisible to the communities in which they live. They have difficulties accessing basic public services, such as enrolling their children in schools or receiving medical care. The remaining barriers to their recognition as Iraqi citizens can be easily addressed,” said Jean-Nicolas Beuze, Representative of UNHCR in Iraq. UNHCR and the Ministry …

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UNHCR, with KuwaitFund opened a new registration centre in Erbil. The centre will provide protection services such as info desk to answer queries, asylum certificates, services to survivors of Gender Based Violence and more to refugees in Kurdistan, It is expected that 24,000 refugees a month will benefit from all these services.

UN warns of soaring global public debt: a record $92 trillion in 2022 —— About 3.3 billion people now live in countries where debt interest payments are greater than expenditure on health or education. The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today presented the report “A world of debt. A growing burden to global prosperity” and …

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, cautioned that just as mis- and disinformation undermined the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, they are undermining efforts “to keep the world safer from future pandemics.” He drew comparisons with the efforts by the tobacco industry to derail negotiations at the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. “The same …

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