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UNMAS Press Conference

2 days 23 hours hence Breadcrumb Home UNMAS Press Conference 07 April 2025 Press Conference Announcement The 28th International Meeting of Mine Action National Directors and United Nations Advisers (NDM-UN28) will take place in Geneva from 9 to 11 April 2025. Ilene Cohn, Director UNMASAmbassador Tobias Privitell, Director GICHD

New Permanent Representative of Angola Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

21 hours 24 minutes ago Breadcrumb Home New Permanent Representative of Angola Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva 03 April 2025 Presentation of Credentials Ana Maria de Oliveira, the new Permanent Representative of Angola to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.Prior to her appointment to…

New Permanent Representative of Ukraine Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

21 hours 44 minutes ago Breadcrumb Home New Permanent Representative of Ukraine Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva 03 April 2025 Presentation of Credentials Yevhenii Tsymbaliuk, the new Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr…

AI’s $4.8 trillion future: UN warns of widening digital divide without urgent action

1 day ago Breadcrumb Home AI’s $4.8 trillion future: UN warns of widening digital divide without urgent action 03 April 2025 Public Domain Visualization of Artificial Intelligence combining a human brain schematic with a circuit board. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on course to become a $4.8 trillion global market by 2033 – roughly the size of Germany’s economy – but unless urgent action is taken, its benefits may…

UN envoy urges international support for West Africa and the Sahel

1 day ago Breadcrumb Home UN envoy urges international support for West Africa and the Sahel 03 April 2025 © UNICEF/KC Nwakalor Children walk through the mud in a displaced persons camp in Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria. In a briefing to the Security Council on Thursday, the UN Special Representative for West Africa and the Sahel painted a mixed picture of the region, which is facing a growing terrorist threat but…

Myanmar: UN chief calls for urgent access as quake toll mounts

1 day ago Breadcrumb Home Myanmar: UN chief calls for urgent access as quake toll mounts 03 April 2025 © UNICEF/Nyan Zay Htet Devastation caused by the earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar's second largest city. The UN chief on Thursday called for immediate and unrestricted humanitarian access to Myanmar, where last week’s devastating earthquakes claimed over 3,000 lives and left millions in urgent need of aid…

‘Every piece tells a story’: Bombs to beauty, from Gaza to Ukraine

1 day ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Every piece tells a story’: Bombs to beauty, from Gaza to Ukraine 03 April 2025 © Courtesy of Stanislav Drokin Ukrainian designer Stanislav Drokin uses shrapnel to make fine jewellery. What happens to bombs after they land? Some explode. Some don’t, leaving behind a deadly legacy of war, but now the remnants of conflict and devastation are being turned into wearable messages of peace…

DR Congo: Armed violence displaces thousands as cholera outbreak worsens

1 day ago Breadcrumb Home DR Congo: Armed violence displaces thousands as cholera outbreak worsens 03 April 2025 © UNICEF/Jospin Benek Children play football in an empty classroom at the UNICEF-supported Bulengo Primary School in the Bulengo displacement site, near Goma, North Kivu province in DR Congo, on 10 February 2025. Ongoing violence in North and South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)…

World News in Brief: Israeli military escalation in Syria, Nicaragua rights probe, South Sudan talks

1 day ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Israeli military escalation in Syria, Nicaragua rights probe, South Sudan talks 03 April 2025 UNMISS/Nektarios Markogiannis A displaced family setting up a makeshift shelter in southwest South Sudan. (file) The UN Special Envoy for Syria has condemned the repeated and intensifying military escalations by Israel in the country, including airstrikes that have caused…

UN rights chief warns of increasing risk of atrocity crimes in Gaza

1 day ago Breadcrumb Home UN rights chief warns of increasing risk of atrocity crimes in Gaza 03 April 2025 UN Photo/Loey Felipe Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. The recent killings of 15 medical personnel and humanitarian aid workers in Gaza raise further concerns over the commission of war…