The Battle for Covid-19 Vaccines: the Rich Prevail Over the Poor
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 20 (IPS) – The 164-member World Trade Organization (WTO) has implicitly rubber-stamped a widely-condemned policy of “vaccine apartheid” which has discriminated...
Guterres visits refugees resettled in NYC, urges world to ‘stand together in solidarity’
Ahead of World Refugee Day, marked annually on 20 June, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday visited refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan now living,...
In Colombia, decades of violence and armed conflict created significant obstacles to human development and sustainable peace. To encourage the private sector to move...
Building peace: Plotting a route towards democracy in The Gambia
After two decades of dictatorship, The Gambia is on the road towards democracy and respect for human rights, The UN is working closely with...
Nearly one billion people worldwide suffer from some form of mental disorder, according to latest UN data – a staggering figure that is even...
In Burkina Faso, UN humanitarians on Friday appealed to the international community for help, after attacks by armed groups forced thousands to flee their...
Sweltering conditions in Europe have come earlier than expected this year but the bad news is, they’re the shape of things to come. Read...
Sexual violence in conflict ‘terrorizes populations, destroys lives and fractures communities’
Sexual violence has become a brutal tactic of warfare and repression that “terrorizes populations, destroys lives and fractures communities,” the UN chief said on...
A UN human rights expert on Friday urged the United Kingdom to halt its controversial policy of transferring some asylum seekers to Rwanda and expressed...
Hate speech incites violence, undermines diversity and social cohesion and “threatens the common values and principles that bind us together,” the UN chief said...
The Takeaway: UN General Assembly debate Day 4 
Countries adopt global blueprint to tackle fast-evolving crime in digital age 
‘Safeguard the postwar order,’ China tells UN General Assembly 
‘Invest with Iraq’: PM sets out vision for new economic future