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Restrictions on Afghan women continue unabated: UN report
22 January 2024
Hundreds of Afghan women were forced to quit their jobs or have been arrested and denied access to essential services in the last quarter of 2023, a UN report revealed on Monday, as Taliban officials continue undermining their basic human rights.
Among those whose working lives have been upended, de…
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Guterres urges G77 and China to drive momentum for global governance reform
21 January 2024
Developing countries must lead efforts to reform outdated multilateral institutions and frameworks, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in remarks to the third summit of the Group of 77 (G-77) and China, which opened in Kampala, Uganda, on Sunday.
More than 130 countries are…
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How a piece of the Moon landed at UN Headquarters
21 January 2024
An extraterrestrial visitor now lives at UN Headquarters in New York: a precious piece of the Moon. The rock joins a host of other fascinating objects on display, from a machine gun fashioned into a guitar to a semi-curdled bronze statue that survived a nuclear bomb in Japan.
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At Non-Aligned Movement summit, Guterres repeats call for Gaza ceasefire, release of hostages
20 January 2024
UN Secretary-General António Guterres repeated his call for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and the unconditional release of all hostages, in an address to the latest summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which concluded in Kampala, Uganda, on Saturday.
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Adrift at sea for 28 days, struggles continue for Sri Lankan migrants
20 January 2024
Sri Lankan migrants who paid their life savings to people traffickers for perilous and unsuccessful sea crossings in an attempt to find a better life overseas have returned home thanks to the support of the UN migration agency, IOM.
Selvan is heading out on his motorcycle to buy groceries…
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Experts of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Welcome Senegal’s Initiatives Promoting Birth Registration, Ask about Harmful Cultural Practices and Efforts to Increase School Participation Rates
19 January 2024
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined sixth and seventh periodic report of Senegal under the Convention on the Rights of the Child as…
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PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE
19 January 2024
UN Geneva Press Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the World Meteorological…
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Gaza crisis: Babies being born ‘into hell’ amid desperate aid shortages
19 January 2024
Babies are being “delivered into hell” in Gaza with many others likely dying as a result of conflict with Israel and increasingly dire conditions in the enclave, UN humanitarians warned on Friday.
Reiterating urgent international calls for a ceasefire, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)…
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World News in Brief: Congo flood response, tourism bounces back, alert over Sudan’s ancient pyramids
19 January 2024
Unprecedented flooding in the Republic of the Congo has left more than 350,000 people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, the UN aid coordination office OCHA said on Friday.
Some 1.8 million people have been impacted by torrential downpours that have…
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Epstein files: Nobody should evade justice, say UN rights experts
19 January 2024
UN independent human rights experts on Friday emphasized no one is above the law, following the unsealing of nearly 1,000 pages of court records in the case of US financier Jeffrey Epstein, which shed light on the disturbing extent of his sexual abuse of teenage girls.
The court documents…
