Afghanistan: UN Envoy Highlights Need To Continue Dialogue With Taliban
Despite their differing positions, dialogue between the Taliban authorities and the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) must continue for the sake of the country’s...
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UN Rights Experts Condemn Attacks In UK On Trafficking Victims’ Credibility
by UN News
Demonising victims of trafficking and modern slavery, turns the public against them and legal methods for keeping them safe, leaving them vulnerable to extremist attacks,...
Grant To UN Mission In Mali Boosts Inclusivity For Women In Peacekeeping
by UN News
A $1.5 million grant to the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA, announced on Tuesday, is designed to enable a more inclusive environment for women...
Iran Enriching ‘Worrying Quantities’ Of Uranium, In Further Blow For Nuclear Deal
by UN News
No progress has been made on the implementation of a high profile 2015 Security Council resolution (2231), aimed at ensuring that Iran’s nuclear facilities be...
Mali: UN Chief ‘Strongly Condemns’ Deaths Of Two Peacekeepers In ‘Heinous Attack’
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Secretary-General António Guterres “strongly condemns” an attack against a UN police patrol in northern Mali that claimed the lives of two Nigerian peacekeepers, according to...
International Migrants Day: 280 Million People Leave Home For ‘A Better Life’
by UN News
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...
As Biodiversity Degrades, Nature’s Solutions Are Lost Forever
by UN News
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
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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
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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
by UN News
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...