Madagascar: Emergency teams deploy to areas hit hard by deadly cyclone
Humanitarians are continuing to support Madagascar in the wake of Cyclone Batsirai which hammered the island nation this past weekend, the UN said on Thursday. ...
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Not a moment to lose, in race to meet Sustainable Development Goals: Guterres
The President of the UN General Assembly convened the first system-wide meeting on Thursday, dedicated to galvanizing action towards implementing the ground-breaking blueprint, known as...
Teaching key to better ocean protection, says UNESCO chief
Education needs to be one of the key pillars for action by countries across the world to better protect the seas and oceans from damaging...
IAEA charts Amazon waters, boosting access to life-saving cancer screening
Women living in Amazon River communities now have increased access to breast cancer screening along even its most remote banks, thanks to two new mammography units installed...
Encourage today’s girls to become ‘tomorrow’s leading scientists and innovators’
In his message marking the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the UN chief on Friday called for an enabling environment where “today’s...
World leaders call for $23 billion to end pandemic this year
The COVID-19 pandemic could be defeated this year but only if vaccines, tests and treatments are made available to all people, UN Secretary-General António Guterres...
Battle against Da’esh, a ‘long-term game’, Voronkov tells Security Council
The global fight against the shadowy, ever-morphing threat posed by the ISIL terrorist group – known officially as Da’esh – and its affiliated terrorist groups,...
Ethiopia in ‘much better place’ to resolve Tigray conflict: Mohammed
On the last day of a five-day trip to Ethiopia, the Deputy Secretary-General said the East African nation is in “a much better place” to resolve the conflict that erupted 15 months ago in...
Displacement, humanitarian needs surging inside Afghanistan and across region
Conflict last year had forced more than 700,000 Afghans to leave their homes and added to the 5.5 million people already displaced over past years,...
Severe drought threatens 13 million with hunger in Horn of Africa
An estimated 13 million people are waking up severely hungry every day in the Horn of Africa, as the region grapples with a major drought...