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Category: International
Concrete action essential to fulfill Darfur promise: IC...
Nearly 20 years after the UN Security Council referred the Darfur situation in Sudan to the International Criminal Court (ICC), vi...
Guterres condemns attack on Abu Dhabi airport and oil f...
The Secretary-General condemned on Monday the attacks on Abu Dhabi’s International Airport and the nearby Musaffah industrial area...
UK Borders Bill increases risks of discrimination, huma...
A new bill being debated by lawmakers in the United Kingdom increases the risk of discrimination and “serious human rights violati...
UN rights office warns against rising hate speech in We...
Authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in neighbouring Serbia, must condemn and refrain from any advocacy of national, racial ...
Decade of Sahel conflict leaves 2.5 million people disp...
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) called on Friday for concerted international action to end armed conflict in Africa’s central Sahel ...
Tigray: Aid operations ‘about to grind to a halt’, warn...
Aid and food distribution operations in northern Ethiopia are about “to grind to a halt” amid ongoing fighting, bloodshed and a la...
Child and woman injured following rocket attack in Iraq
“A child being hurt is a child too many”, said the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative in Iraq on Friday, following a rocke...
Horrors of Hiroshima, a reminder nuclear weapons remain...
Despite the annihilation of two major Japanese cities in 1945, atomic bombs have not been relegated to the pages of history books,...
UN in Geneva celebrates 6 decades supporting impartial ...
The UN Office in Geneva is celebrating a 60-year collaboration with the European Broadcasting Union of public-service broadcasters...
Tonga: The UN stands ready to support after volcano eru...
Secretary-General António Guterres expressed his deep concern after reports of a tsunami and ash affecting Tonga following the eru...
UN marks anniversary of devastating 2010 Haiti earthqua...
On 12 January 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, leaving its capital Port-au-Prince devastated. About 220,000 people w...
Omicron fuels record weekly COVID-19 cases, but deaths ...
Fuelled by Omicron, more than 15 million new cases of COVID-19 were reported around the world last week, by far the most cases rep...