UN News
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UN and top aid officials slam Afghan rulers’ NGO ban for women
Top UN agency officials and civil society organization heads joined forces on Thursday to urge Afghanistan’s de facto authorities to reverse their...
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2022 Year In Review: As conflicts rage, international dialogue remains ‘the only hope’ for peace
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine creating global upheaval, and war, conflict, and unrest blighting all parts of the world in 2022. The UN stressed the...
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South Sudan: UN and partners make plea for urgent intervention to end ‘escalating violence’
The UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) together with international partners, have called for the immediate end to mounting violence in the Greater...
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2022 Year in Review: Amid global turmoil, UN doggedly pursues international climate agreements
Despite strong evidence that human activity played a role in catastrophic weather events, and the emergence of a fuel crisis sparked by the war in...
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UN migration agency to support 700,000 Ukrainians through ‘most challenging’ winter
As temperatures across Ukraine have plummeted below zero and are expected to drop even more, the UN migration agency is stepping up efforts to help...
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UN refugee agency welcomes Indonesia's ‘act of humanity’ in rescuing migrants adrift at sea
Indonesian fishing crews and local authorities who took part in rescuing more than 200 people adrift at sea, were hailed on Tuesday by the UN...
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2022 Year In health: New Ebola and cholera outbreaks, mpox emergency, COVID-19 ‘not over’
The UN warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is still a cause for global concern, and outbreaks of cholera, Ebola and Monkeypox (now renamed mpox) led...
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Burkina Faso authorities had no authority to expel senior UN official: Guterres
The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has expressed his confidence in Barbara Manzi, the most senior UN official in Burkina Faso, who was...
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2022 Year in Review: 100 million displaced, ‘a record that should never have been set’
A hundred million people were forced to leave their homes in 2022. The UN continued to help those in need in a myriad of ways, and push for more...
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UN Secretary-General ‘deeply disturbed’ by Taliban’s reported ban on women working for NGOs in Afghanistan
Amid reports on Saturday that the Taliban had barred women from working for local and international NGOs, the United Nations said the decision...
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UN refugee agency urges rescue of 190 desperate people adrift in Andaman Sea
Some 190 desperate people are on the verge of perishing at sea, adrift somewhere between the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, the UN refugee...
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Honduras: new internal displacement law ‘much-needed step’ towards restoring hope and dignity
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, applauded on Thursday, Honduras’ landmark legislation establishing a legal framework to respond to the complex...
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UN expert on Myanmar: Security Council resolution not strong enough on 'systematic gross human rights violations'
In response to the adoption of the Security Council’s first resolution on Myanmar since the military unleashed a brutal crackdown nearly two years...
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Syria: Needs rise amid deepening humanitarian and economic crisis
Humanitarian needs in Syria have reached their worst levels since conflict began nearly 12 years ago, the Security Council heard on Wednesday.
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UN condemns Taliban decision to bar women from universities, calls for ‘immediate’ revocation
The UN family and the entire humanitarian community in Afghanistan condemned the Taliban’s decision to close universities to women and called on...