Category: International
The 193 countries of the United Nations (UN) should adopt Monday, September 19 in New York, ahead of the General Assembly, a series of commitments to respond to the most serious migration crisis since World ...
Cultural diversity is an outstanding source of exchange, innovation and creativity, and has the enormous potential to accelerate sustainable development, the United Nations cultural agency declared today. In a message marking the World Day for ...
The world is witnessing the highest level of human suffering since the Second World War. This is why, for the first time in the 70-year history of the United Nations, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has ...
More than 80 per cent of people living in urban areas that monitor air pollution are exposed to air quality levels that exceed guidelines set by the World Health Organization (WHO), with populations in low-income ...
A United Nations human rights expert today signalled concern that efforts to counter “violent extremism” may be construed as the “perfect excuse” for democratic and authoritarian governments to restrict free expression and control access to ...
The Secretary General of Amnesty International suggests a rise « deeply worrying » of executions in the world. Death row executions have jumped more than 50% in 2015, reaching their highest level since 1989. In its ...
At least half a million people will die in the year 2050 as a result of the impact climate change will have on food production, according to experts. The stark forecast is expected to occur ...
The most senior United Nations officials are urging the world to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM) by 2030, calling it a “violent practice” that scars girls for life, endangering their health, depriving them of their ...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday launched an appeal for 2.8 billion dollars in 2016 to help 43 million children caught in humanitarian crises around the world. For the first time, most of ...
Faced with a global shortage of oral cholera vaccines (OCV), the United Nations health agency announced today that supply should double this year to six million doses, with further increases later, after it approved a ...
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