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Category: International
Tonga volcanic eruption: Too soon to assess damage
Tonga’s capital, Nuku’alofa, is covered in ash and dust following the underwater volcanic eruption at the weekend, but the situati...
FAO launches $138 million plan to avert hunger crisis i...
More than $138 million is needed to assist rural communities affected by extended drought in the Horn of Africa, the UN Food and A...
Experts decry measures to ‘steadily erase’ Afghan women...
Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against ...
Child and woman injured following rocket attack in Iraq
“A child being hurt is a child too many”, said the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative in Iraq on Friday, following a rocke...
Horrors of Hiroshima, a reminder nuclear weapons remain...
Despite the annihilation of two major Japanese cities in 1945, atomic bombs have not been relegated to the pages of history books,...
UN in Geneva celebrates 6 decades supporting impartial ...
The UN Office in Geneva is celebrating a 60-year collaboration with the European Broadcasting Union of public-service broadcasters...
Tonga: The UN stands ready to support after volcano eru...
Secretary-General António Guterres expressed his deep concern after reports of a tsunami and ash affecting Tonga following the eru...
UN-backed COVAX mechanism delivers its 1 billionth COVI...
With a 1.1 million jab delivery in Rwanda this weekend, the World Health Organization’s multilateral initiative to provide equal a...
UN rights office warns against rising hate speech in We...
Authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in neighbouring Serbia, must condemn and refrain from any advocacy of national, racial ...
Decade of Sahel conflict leaves 2.5 million people disp...
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) called on Friday for concerted international action to end armed conflict in Africa’s central Sahel ...
Tigray: Aid operations ‘about to grind to a halt’, warn...
Aid and food distribution operations in northern Ethiopia are about “to grind to a halt” amid ongoing fighting, bloodshed and a la...
Conviction of top Syrian intelligence official ‘a landm...
UN human rights officials have welcomed the “historic” conviction on Thursday by a German court of a former senior Syrian intellig...