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#item_description], The COVID-19 pandemic “will not end for anyone, until it ends for everyone”, an independent UN human rights expert

#item_description], A sharp uptick in intercommunal violence in Sudan’s Darfur region has forced more than 100,000 people to flee their

#item_description], The first multilateral nuclear disarmament treaty in more than two decades, came into force just after midnight on Friday, hailed

#item_description], Illegally-armed groups and criminal organizations in Colombia are determined to “drive out State institutions and stamp out the voice

#item_description], Perpetrators behind twin deadly suicide bombings at a busy market in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Thursday must be

#item_description], Africa is in danger of being left behind in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines as countries in other regions

#item_description], The UN chief announced on Thursday that he has set up an independent Senior Advisory Panel on strengthening the

#item_description], The top UN official in the Central African Republic (CAR) appealed to the Security Council on Thursday for more

#item_description], The United States’ top medical official said on Thursday that the US will now join the World Health Organization’s

#item_description], The United Nations Secretary-General on Wednesday welcomed the announcement by President Joe Biden that the United States will re-engage

#item_description], Following the inauguration of United States President Joe Biden on Wednesday, the UN Secretary-General said he looks forward to

#item_description], The head of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) congratulated the new United States President and Vice President as they

#item_description], After a decade of conflict, economic collapse compounded by COVID-19, corruption and mismanagement, the UN Syrian envoy told the

#item_description], UN agencies voiced deep concern on Wednesday over the worsening humanitarian crisis in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, where attacks

#item_description], The economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic and surging food prices have made it “nearly impossible” for almost two

#item_description], Action to control unprecedented desert locust infestations in the Horn of Africa last year has protected crops and livelihoods,

#item_description], Two months after conflict forced humanitarian workers to withdraw from the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the UN refugee agency

#item_description], The global system for pandemic alert and response is “not fit for purpose”, highlighting the need for a new

#item_description], Israel’s decision to advance plans for some 800 new settlement units, most of which are located deep inside the

#item_description], Increasing political tensions in Haiti coupled with insecurity and structural inequalities could result in protests followed by violent crackdowns

#item_description], The UN Secretary-General has praised the breakthrough made by a key committee of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum at

#item_description], The UN human rights office (OHCHR) have raised alarm over the arrest of Russian opposition activist Aleksei Navalny and

#item_description], A group of independent UN rights experts released a statement on Monday condemning the violent storming of the United

#item_description], A “me-first approach” to COVID-19 vaccines on the part of some countries and manufacturers is putting equitable access to

#item_description], The United Nations Secretary-General has voiced deep concerns over escalating violence in West Darfur and called Sudanese authorities to

#item_description], The UN Secretary-General has welcomed Friday’s announcement from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the first full parliamentary and presidential

#item_description], The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned another fatal attack carried out against a peacekeeping convoy that left a ‘blue helmet’ from