Featured Guterres hails healer and ‘mentor to generations’, Nelson Mandela
The UN chief in his message to mark Monday’s International Day in honour of Nelson Mandela, hailed the first Black President of post-Apartheid South Africa and racial...
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Featured From the Field: Afghan earthquake survivors look to rebuild their lives
Afghans caught up in the devastating earthquake that hit the country on June 22, killing more than 1,000 and injured over 6,000 people, are sharing...
COVID-19 fuels slowest rate of childhood vaccination in three decades, leaving millions at risk
Official data published by UN agencies on Friday shows the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccination rates in approximately 30 years, with 25 million infants...
A safe space for Venezuela’s indigenous women
Venezuela’s rural, remote, indigenous communities have been particularly affected by COVID-19 and the country’s socio-economic crisis; community gardens help Wayúu women from Rio Negro to...
Ensure peaceful and constitutional transfer of power in Sri Lanka, urges UN Resident Coordinator
The head of the UN Country Team in Sri Lanka has urged senior politicians to ensure a peaceful transfer of power in line with the...
Featured Philippines: Top rights expert appeals to President Marcos over Maria Ressa conviction
The decision by a Philippines court to uphold the conviction of campaigning journalist Maria Ressa should be reassessed by the newly elected government, the UN Special...
Russia: Human rights experts condemn civil society shutdown
Top UN-appointed independent rights experts have condemned Russia’s “continued and heightened crackdown on civil society groups, human rights defenders and media outlets”. In an appeal...
Reliable information ‘a matter of life and death’ UN chief tells Security Council
Access to information is a human right, Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Tuesday, underscoring that for peacekeepers, it can be “a matter...
Syria: Security Council extends cross-border aid delivery for six months
The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution to extend lifesaving aid deliveries into northwest Syria from Türkiye for a further six months following a...
As virus spreads ‘freely’ COVID-19 ‘nowhere near over’: Tedros
Rising COVID-19 cases are not only putting further pressure on already stretched health systems and workers but also triggering an “increasing trend of deaths”, World...