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UN rights chief calls time on ‘economic violence’ against women and girls
28 June 2024
UN Women/Ryan Brown
Women attend a community meeting in Cameroon.
On Friday, at the UN Human Rights Council's (OHCHR) first panel for the annual full-day discussion on women's rights, The UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday told a Human Rights Council panel that it’s time to eliminate laws and…
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World getting a ‘failing grade’ on Global Goals report card
28 June 2024
UN Photo/Manuel Elías
Displays at the United Nations Headquarters in New York illustrate the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
With just six years remaining to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global progress is alarmingly insufficient, with a mere 17 per cent of the targets currently on track,…
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Top UN official calls for strict compliance with sanctions on DPR Korea
28 June 2024
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Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, briefs the Security Council meeting on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Any relationship that any country has with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), including Russia, “must entirely abide” by…
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AFTERNOON - Human Rights Council Hears that States Need to Expand International Solidarity Measures to Diminish Inequality and Marginalisation, and that the Backlash against Women’s and Girls’ Human Rights Is Intensifying
27 June 2024
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The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity, and started an interactive…
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Stories from the UN Archive: How the UN was founded amid the ashes of war
27 June 2024
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Hiroshima, shortly after a nuclear bomb was dropped on this Japanese city in August 1945. (file)
Take a front seat to how it all began: the birth of the United Nations amid the ashes of the Second World War that devastated continents and communities around the world…
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Global leaders address security and peacekeeping challenges at UN Police summit
27 June 2024
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Senegalese and Nigerian UNPOL Officers attend crowd control training along with Malian Police Officers at a police academy in Bamako, Mali.
Police chiefs and government leaders convened at UN Headquarters on Thursday for the opening session of UNCOPS 2024.…
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Road safety gets a boost with new UN fix for ‘pedal error’
27 June 2024
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Electric cars. UN Photo/JC McIlwaine
Have you ever been driving in your car and pressed the accelerator instead of the brake? It happens more than you might think and it’s a cause of serious accidents that UN road safety experts have found a fix to, they announced on Thursday…
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World News in Brief: Trafficking victims need more support, deadly risks of inactivity, executions in Iraq
27 June 2024
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A man helps a woman to the shore as a boat arrives with Rohingya refugees in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. (file)
Victims of people-trafficking need more countries to respect international law and protect them, but thousands continue to die along…
