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Category: International
Sudan urged to stop unnecessary use of force against pr...
Authorities in Sudan must immediately halt unnecessary and disproportionate use of force against protesters, the UN human rights o...
Bachelet: Women’s participation forging peace worldwide...
With COVID-19, the situation for women human rights defenders and the prospects for women's full participation in building peace, ...
UNRWA seeks $1.6 billion to support Palestinian refugee...
The UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, on Tuesday appealed for $1.6 billion to support its lifesaving work this ...
COVID-19: WHO expresses hope worst of Omicron wave is o...
Omicron continues to sweep the world, but cases seem to have peaked in some countries, which gives the head of the World Health Or...
UN celebrates 25 years of mandate to protect children c...
Although international action over the past 25 years has led to the release of more than 170,000 boys and girls recruited to fight...
2021 joins top 7 warmest years on record: WMO
Last year joined the list of the seven warmest years on record, the UN weather agency said on Wednesday, and was also the seventh ...
UN-backed COVAX mechanism delivers its 1 billionth COVI...
With a 1.1 million jab delivery in Rwanda this weekend, the World Health Organization’s multilateral initiative to provide equal a...
COVID means labour market recovery still ‘slow and unce...
As the COVID-19 pandemic grinds on and global labour markets continue to struggle, the latest International Labour Organization (I...
Tonga volcanic eruption: Too soon to assess damage
Tonga’s capital, Nuku’alofa, is covered in ash and dust following the underwater volcanic eruption at the weekend, but the situati...
FAO launches $138 million plan to avert hunger crisis i...
More than $138 million is needed to assist rural communities affected by extended drought in the Horn of Africa, the UN Food and A...
Experts decry measures to ‘steadily erase’ Afghan women...
Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against ...
UN chief: ‘Global solidarity is missing in action’
Addressing the virtual World Economic Forum, on Monday, the United Nations’ Secretary-General, António Guterres, told world and bu...