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#item_description], De-escalation of the Palestine-Israel conflict is “an absolute must” said the UN Secretary-General on Wednesday, declaring that the mounting

#item_description], Two senior UN officials on Wednesday, condemned in the strongest terms, a terrorist attack targeting girls and their families outside a high school in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. 

#item_description], Over the past year, freedom of expression in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has been increasingly curtailed, according to

#item_description], Peace is “the only way” to resolve the crisis in Yemen, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator told the Security Council

#item_description], A prestigious World Health Organization (WHO) appointed panel on Wednesday urged bold action to end the COVID-19 crisis, while

#item_description], United Nations independent rights experts on Wednesday urged businesses in Myanmar to uphold their human rights responsibilities and apply

#item_description], The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process added his voice to calls for calm in the

#item_description], As the world continues to grapple with the health and economic crisis sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN

#item_description], A trusted electoral process with “free and wide-ranging participation” can steer Iraq towards a “safe and prosperous future”, the

#item_description], UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned the deadly shooting at a school in the Russian city of Kazan

#item_description], Although the outlook for global growth has improved, the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as inadequate progress on

#item_description], The UN rights office, OHCHR, appealed on Tuesday for “a redoubling of efforts to restore calm” on Tuesday in the

#item_description], While much of world’s attention is focused on the crackdown against peaceful protesters in Myanmar, the military authorities continue

#item_description], The United Nations Security Council strongly condemned Monday’s attack on the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of

#item_description], A UN team investigating ISIL atrocities in Iraq has established “clear and convincing evidence” of genocide against the Yazidi

#item_description], Amidst an “unacceptably high plateau” in COVID-19 cases and deaths globally, the UN health agency chief on Monday shone

#item_description], The UN agriculture chief warned on Monday that severe underfunding of Africa’s agri-food sector has boosted food insecurity and was

#item_description], Saturday’s deadly bombing outside a high school in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, has been condemned by leading UN

#item_description], A COVID-19 vaccine produced in China has been given the green light for global rollout, potentially paving the way

#item_description], The current UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, laid out his case for a second five year term on Friday to Member States,

#item_description], The President of the UN General Assembly on Friday urged countries to “do better” in making COVID-19 vaccines available

#item_description], A new wave of COVID-19 infections is spreading like “wildfire” across India, leaving many youngsters destitute, the UN Children’s

#item_description], The UN’s human rights office (OHCHR), on Friday, called on Israel to immediately halt all forced evictions, including those