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Drugs online: UN-backed body offers solutions to counter narcotics surge
05 March 2024
Drug dealers have continued to use cutting-edge digital technology, social media platforms and disinformation to sell their illegal produce, fuelling narcotics consumption globally, a UN-backed report launched on Tuesday showed.
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) study…
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Women in parliament: Slow progress towards equal representation
05 March 2024
Progress on women’s representation in national legislatures was “slow and mixed” in 2023, registering a growth of 0.4 per cent over the preceding year, the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) reported on Tuesday.
The global proportion of women in the world’s voting chambers inched up to 26.9…
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World News in Brief: Climate change in the countryside, Yemen polio drive success, development and peace
05 March 2024
Climate change is disproportionately affecting the incomes of rural women, the poor and older populations, who also have the least capacity to adapt to extreme weather events, a new report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) revealed on Tuesday…
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North Gaza aid mission reveals more infants may die from hunger
05 March 2024
A rare opportunity to deliver desperately needed supplies to hospitals in northern Gaza for the first time in months has been welcomed by UN humanitarians, who on Tuesday issued a fresh alert about “appalling” conditions in medical facilities where more children risk are battling life-threatening malnutrition…
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Gaza: Efforts to deliver food aid to stricken north ‘largely unsuccessful’
05 March 2024
Efforts by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to deliver desperately needed food supplies to northern Gaza resumed on Tuesday, but were largely unsuccessful, the agency reported.
The emergency relief agency said that a 14-truck food convoy – the first by WFP since it paused deliveries to…
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New Permanent Representative of Guinea Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
05 March 2024
Presentation of Credentials
Louncény Condé, the new Permanent Representative of Guinea 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. Condé had…
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MEDIA ADVISORY - ‘Peace Begins with Her’: A mosaic of portraits celebrates women and peace
04 March 2024
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Add your own voice to the global push for women's participation by having your portrait taken in the Inside Out Photobooth and added to the ‘Peace Begins with Her’ installation honoring the vital role of women in achieving peace!
Add your own voice to the global push for women's participation by having your portrait taken in…
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Human Right Committee Opens One Hundred and Fortieth Session in Geneva
04 March 2024
Meeting Summaries
The Human Right Committee today opened its one hundred and fortieth session, during which it will examine the reports of Chile, Guyana, Indonesia, Namibia, Serbia, Somalia and the United Kingdom on their implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In her opening remarks, Wan-Hea Lee, Chief of the Civil, Political…
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Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Opens Thirtieth Session
04 March 2024
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The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today opened its thirtieth session in Geneva, during which it will review the reports of Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Costa Rica, Kazakhstan, Nicaragua, Sweden and Zambia. Andrea Ori, Chief, Groups in Focus Section, Human Rights Treaties Branch, Human Rights…
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‘Clear and convincing information’ that hostages held in Gaza subjected to sexual violence, says UN Special Representative
04 March 2024
Following a 17-day visit to Israel, the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict reported on Monday that she and a team of experts had found “clear and convincing information” of rape and sexualized torture being committed against hostages seized during the 7 October terror attacks…
