WTO anticipates sharp slowdown in world trade growth in 2023
Trade growth is expected to lose momentum in the second half of this year and remain subdued in 2023, as the global economy sustains multiple...
Category : United Nations
Nearly half of worldâs terror victims are African, with organised crime increasingly entrenched
by UN News
The threat of terrorism and organised crime is becoming increasingly entrenched across Africa, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime told the...
Ten Years Of Afghan Economic Growth, Reversed In Just 12 Months: UNDP
by UN News
âAfghans are running out of time and resources. Afghanistan needs support from the international community to bring back to life local markets and small businesses...
New UN Report Urges Europe To Step-Up Action Over Triple Environmental Crisis
by UN News
A new UN report presented on Wednesday to the Organizationâs highest pan-European environmental policy body, covering 54 countries, is calling for greater action to tackle...
Climate Change Heightens Threats Of Violence Against Women And Girls
by UN News
She said women environmental human rights defenders, indigenous women and girls, women of diverse gender identities and sexual orientations, older women, women with disabilities, women...
UN chief condemns DPR Korea missile launch over Japan as âreckless actâ
by UN News
The UN Secretary-General on Tuesday strongly condemned the launch of a ballistic missile by the Democratic Peopleâs Republic of Korea (DPRK), more commonly known as...
Dementia: WHO launches blueprint to tackle generational health challenge
by UN News
Dementia is one of the greatest health challenges of our generation, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which on Tuesday launched the first-ever research...
Pakistan: To avert âsecond wave of deathâ, UN raises funding appeal to $816 million
by UN News
Battling what the top UN aid official in Pakistan has warned is a âsecond wave of death and destructionâ, following catastrophic flooding since June that...
Delivering justice for abused child brides in The Comoros
by UN News
Around thirty per cent of girls in The Comoros become child brides, and they make up the vast majority of sexual violence cases reported across...
Migration becomes a trending topic at New York Fashion Week
by UN News
New York Fashion Week was treated to a celebration of diversity and inclusion earlier this month, when designers backed by the UN-supported No Nation Fashion...