Philippines: Rights Expert Urges Greater Action To Combat Child Sexual Exploitation
Although the Philippines has made gains in combatting the sale and sexual exploitation of children, greater effort needs to be made to protect them, a...
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Does UN Peacekeeping work? Here’s What The Data Says
by UN News
Failures on the part of UN Peacekeeping missions have been highly publicised and well documented – and rightly so. But if you look at the...
“We Don’t Need To be Told What To Do On Democracy”: India At UN
by News Desk
United Nations: “India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj, asserted that New Delhi does not need to be told what to...
UN rights body launches Iran human rights investigation
by UN News
Following calls from UN human rights chief Volker Türk for an independent investigation into ongoing deadly violence against protesters in Iran, the Human Rights Council...
Global intellectual property filings reached new records in 2021: WIPO
by UN News
Patents, trademarks and designs reached record levels in 2021, with Asia driving growth in intellectual property, the UN agency dedicated to those types of assets...
From the Field: In Ukraine, ‘I have grown used to the endless fear’
by UN News
Living with fear and the daily threat of death is something that all Ukrainians have had to reckon with since Russia’s invasion of 24 February,...
Almost half of us worldwide are neglecting oral healthcare: WHO report
by UN News
A new report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday reveals that some 3.5 billion people suffer from oral diseases – with three out...
From the UN, with love: Golden couple mark 70 years of Guided Tours
by UN News
She was a young tour guide at UN Headquarters in New York, and he was working with disabled children at a nearby hospital: as the...
UN’s game plan for sanitation for all
by UN News
Ahead of World Toilet Day on 19 November, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is launching a new game plan to help governments achieve safely managed sanitation for...
Adapt or starve: COP27 spotlights agriculture challenges and solutions in the face of climate change
by UN News
Small-scale farmers from developing countries produce one-third of the world’s food, yet they only receive 1.7 per cent of climate finance even as they are...