WHO: 2022 can mark the end of acute pandemic
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus reminded that it was two years ago, as people gathered for New Yearās Eve celebrations, that a new...
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Former ISIL prison transformed to bring joy and support to youth
Before ISIL confiscated it in 2014, the building was a House of Youth under the Ministry. During the war it underwent severe damage....
2021 Year in Review: Climate action, or blah, blah, blah?
To avoid catastrophic climate change, global temperatures rises need to be kept to a maximum of 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, but the odds of...
Three separate shipwrecks leave dozensĀ dead and more missingĀ
At least 31 people lost their lives in three separate shipwrecks over the course of four days last week in the Aegean Sea, and an...
UN chief urges that recovery be ‘our resolution for 2022’
Together, let’s make recovery “for people, planet and prosperity” our resolution for 2022, the UN chief said in his message for the New Year. “The...
2021 Year in Review: Refugee, migrant numbers rise, despite travel curbs
Pandemic-related travel restrictions may have put a dent on international migration figures in 2021, but the number of people forced to leave their homes, due...
Rights experts hear how ‘racialized gatekeeping’ impacts development in France
Country visits by UN rights experts take place at the invitation of the host government and focus on fact-finding, diagnosis and recommendations....
Central African Republic: Scores of militias forced out of Boyo
The Mission drew attention to more than a dozen civilian fatalities on 6 and 7 December in Boyo, which also prompted the displacement of nearly...
2021 Year in Review: UN support for countries in conflict
The grim ten-year milestone of the Syrian conflict, which has killed more than 350,000 people, saw the UN Special Envoy for the country, Geir Pedersen,...
2021 Year in Review: ‘We underestimate this virus at our peril’
Despite the almost miraculous development of effective vaccines against COVID-19 in 2020, the virus continued to spread and mutate throughout the last year, with much...