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‘Mega election’ 2024 could be a landmark for democracy: UN rights chief
04 March 2024
Dozens of elections taking place this year around the world will likely be “free from hatred” and respect the will of the people, but there are warning signs that several polls may not, including Bangladesh, Chad, Hungary, Russia and Senegal, UN rights chief Volker Türk warned on Monday.
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UN crime prevention chief pledges enhanced cooperation in Somalia
04 March 2024
The Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Ghada Waly has highlighted the threats of transnational organized crime, terrorism and corruption that is plaguing Somalia.
On a mission to the Horn of Africa nation, Executive Director Waly underscored on Friday that “…
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General Assembly President condemns ‘catastrophic, unconscionable, shameful’ conditions in Gaza
04 March 2024
Ambassadors in the UN General Assembly again discussed on Monday the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and the critical work of the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, which is facing an existential threat, hearing a briefing by its Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, and holding a heated debate on the US veto of the latest Security Council draft…
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Gaza war may fuel much wider Middle East crisis, warns UN rights chief
04 March 2024
Negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza continued in Egypt for a second day on Monday as the UN’s top rights official warned that the war there risked morphing into a much “wider conflagration” enveloping every country in the Middle East and beyond.
“I am deeply concerned that in…
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Gaza: ‘Babies slowly perishing under the world’s gaze’, UNICEF warns
03 March 2024
A senior official with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has appealed for wider and safer humanitarian access in Gaza, where malnourished babies are slowly dying while the world watches.
“The child deaths we feared are here,” Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle…
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Human ingenuity can help to save nature, Guterres says on World Wildlife Day
03 March 2024
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for action now to protect nature in his message to mark World Wildlife Day on Sunday.
"Human activities have devastated our wildlife; human ingenuity can help to save it,” he said.This year’s theme focuses on how digital technologies can…
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First Person: Water and electricity ‘will save us from famine’
02 March 2024
An initiative to rapidly develop villages in some of the most drought-prone and poorest rural areas of southern Madagascar could help people to avoid the danger of famine, according to people benefiting from a collaboration with the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP).
Droughts, partly caused by climate…
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WHO: Investments and myth-busting to improve hearing
02 March 2024
Over 400 million people globally need hearing aids, a study by the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals, but only 20 per cent get them due to lack of financial and human resources, as well as stigma.
“Only one out of five people are actually accessing hearing rehabilitation of those who need it,”…
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Roughly 9,000 women killed so far in Gaza war: UN Women
02 March 2024
The Gaza conflict “is also a war on women”, who continue to suffer its devastating impacts, the UN agency championing gender equality has said.
UN Women estimated that 9,000 women have been reportedly killed by Israeli forces since the war erupted nearly five months ago. However, the figure is likely to be…
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UN chief appeals for greater support for small islands fighting climate change
02 March 2024
More funding is needed to support small island developing States (SIDS) on the frontlines of climate change, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Saturday in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Mr. Guterres visited a project that is helping the Caribbean nation to combat the…
