Iran must halt the looming execution of juvenile offender Hossein Shahbazi, four experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council said on Thursday. Read...
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COVID-19 pandemic stalls global economic recovery: UN report
The UN’s key report on the global economy, released on Thursday, shows that the rapid spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant has put the...
UN human rights officials have welcomed the “historic” conviction on Thursday by a German court of a former senior Syrian intelligence officer, for crimes...
After a six-week surge, Africa’s fourth pandemic wave, which has been mainly driven by the Omicron variant, is flattening, the World Health Organization (WHO)...
UN chief: ‘We are in a race against time to help the Afghan people’
Describing a “nightmare unfolding in Afghanistan”, the United Nations’ Secretary-General, António Guterres, warned on Thursday that the world is “in a race against time to help the Afghan people.”...
Let us now praise brave women and men: The Nobel Peace Prize 2021
STOCKHOLM, Jan 13 (IPS) – In several countries around the globe, telling the truth is according to its rulers and other influential, generally wealthy,...
WASHINGTON DC, Jan 13 (IPS) – On Jan. 3, the leaders of the five nuclear-armed members of the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) issued a...
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 13 (IPS) – The 22-month-old coronavirus pandemic – which has claimed over 5.4 million lives worldwide, devastated economies and reduced an...
Yemen: ‘Political will, responsible leadership’ needed, to end 7-year war
Seven years into the war in Yemen, UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg reaffirmed to the Security Council on Wednesday that no long-term solution can...
On 12 January 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, leaving its capital Port-au-Prince devastated. About 220,000 people were reportedly killed, among them, 102...
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