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Category: International
COVID-19: ‘Unacceptable’ deals and delays, hampering li...
While 80 per cent of citizens in high and upper-middle income nations have had a dose of COVID-19 vaccine, that figure stands at j...
Yemen: UN agency helping stranded migrants to return ho...
Amid intensifying conflict in Yemen, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is helping near...
‘Unprecedented funding gap’ for 7 million facing hunger...
The World Food Programme (WFP) is facing an unprecedented funding gap of $426 million for its operation in Ethiopia, as the UN age...
UN warns of ‘urgent imperative’ to avoid acute Afghan f...
With food aid running out, Afghanistan is facing the collapse of basic services, said UN agencies on Tuesday, releasing a flash ap...
Security Council cannot fail the women, girls of Afghan...
The Security Council cannot fail the women and girls of Afghanistan, former President of Ireland Mary Robinson warned on Tuesday, ...
Shared ‘grief and anxiety’ a powerful unifying factor i...
The General Assembly on Tuesday held a High-level Forum on the Culture of Peace, focused on building resilience and a fair recover...
Human activity the common link between disasters around...
Disasters such as cyclones, floods, and droughts are more connected than we might think, and human activity is the common thread, ...
From locusts to cyclones: the human cost of interlinked...
Many extreme environmental events have a devastating effect on people’s lives, and a new UN report reveals that many of them are l...
Meningitis outbreak declared in Democratic Republic of ...
A deadly outbreak of meningitis has been declared in a northeastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the Wo...
Drop coal or climate change will ‘wreak havoc’ across e...
Climate change will “wreak havoc” across the Australian economy if coal is not rapidly phased out, a senior UN official warned on ...
IOM concerned for migrants facing ‘dire condition’ at E...
Migrants are facing “dire conditions” at the European Union-Belarus border, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) war...
Critical gaps in refugee education, only 34 per cent at...
Two-thirds of refugee children might never get to secondary school, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday, as it called ...