More than 5.7 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered globally, but only 2% of them in Africa, said World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday. Read the...
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The return of humanitarian flights to Kabul since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is a turning point in the crisis, the UN World Food Programme (WFP)...
76th General Assembly get underway at UN Headquarters in New York
The COVID-19 pandemic has proved to be the most challenging period the world has seen since the Second World War, said the UN Secretary-General on Tuesday – as the 75th session of the General...
Most agricultural funding distorts prices, harms environment: UN report
Around 87% of the $540 billion in total annual government support given worldwide to agricultural producers includes measures that are price distorting and that can be harmful to nature and health. Read...
From K-Pop heroes to net zero: 5 things to look out for at UNGA 76
The 76th session of the UN General Assembly is due to begin on 14 September, and it will be very different from 2020’s fully...
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Sep 14 (IPS) – Last weekend, U.S. corporate media continued a 20-year repetition compulsion to evade the central role of the...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sep 14 (IPS) – Timely interventions by civil society, including concerned scientists, have prevented many likely abuses of next week’s UN...
INTERVIEW: Amid disease and destruction, new UN Assembly president highlights hope
The incoming President of the General Assembly says that hope is desperately needed for those billions around the world struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, devastation, and strife. In his first major interview, he told UN News that the General Assembly, as the UN’s most representative body, is ideally placed to...
Secretary-General António Guterres described Sima Sami Bahous of Jordan, as “a champion for women and girls”, announcing on Monday her appointment to lead the UN’s gender equality and empowerment entity, UN Women. Read the full story, “Gender equality...
Multiple reports of alleged human rights violations in Tigray
UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet on Monday deplored “multiple and severe reports of alleged gross violations of human rights, humanitarian and refugee law” committed by...
UN report warns of reprisals against those who collaborate in defence of human rights 
Gaza: At least 20 killed in deadly building collapse, search for survivors continues 
Security Council LIVE: ‘Being a woman is a crime in Afghanistan,’ civil society briefer declares 
AI, climate and conflicts top Guterres’s agenda ahead of General Assembly