International Migrants Day: 280 Million People Leave Home For ‘A Better Life’
Over the past eight years, at least 51,000 migrants have died, and thousands of others gone missing, said the top UN official. More than 280...
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As Biodiversity Degrades, Nature’s Solutions Are Lost Forever
The UN biodiversity conference, COP15, is due to wrap up on 19 December. This weekend, we are looking at some of the ways that humanity...
South Sudan: UN rights chief appeals for end to ‘senseless violence’ in Upper Nile state
Perpetrators behind deadly violence in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state must be brought to justice, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said...
Step up investment to ensure water and sanitation access for all
Countries must ramp up investments to provide safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) to all people by 2030, the World Health Organization (WHO) and...
‘Dramatically’ evolving conflict highlights importance of multilateralism, Security Council hears
Inter-State wars, terrorism, divided collective security, and peacekeeping limitations remain the same challenges facing multilateralism as when the UN was founded 76 years ago, Secretary-General...
Somalia: Famine narrowly averted – so far, warn UN humanitarians
In Somalia, a full-blown famine has been narrowly averted for now, but the hunger emergency has not gone away, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. In...
Global trade growth turns negative after record year: UNCTAD
Global trade is set to reach almost $32 trillion this year, but inflation has reversed some of the gains made in recent months. That’s according...
UN reproductive health agency appeals for $1.2 billion to support crisis-affected women and girls
Amid rising humanitarian needs worldwide, the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, on Tuesday launched a $1.2 billion appeal to support 66 million women,...
Gender parity, the only path to gender equality: Guterres
Gender equality remains essentially, a question of power, said the UN chief on Monday, but to change the culture of male-domination and bring balance, we...
Once again, US and Europe way ahead on daily calorie intake
The number of calories per person consumed globally, increased by a full nine per cent on average last year, to 2,960 per day, the UN...