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Covid-19: 22 deaths, 1,541 new cases in 24 hours
Bangladesh Farmer Murder: One to be hanged, five gets lifer
Myanmar Army burns down another village in Rakhine
Terrorist groups exploiting COVID-19 in Sahel, UN peacekeeping chief tells Security Council
New York: COVID-19 is complicating an already complex security situation in the Sahel, with terrorist groups exploiting the pandemic as they step up attacks on national and international forces, the UN’s peacekeeping chief said on Friday.
Venezuelans ‘teetering on the brink of survival’ warn UN human rights experts
New York: United Nations independent experts demanded on Wednesday that the Venezuelan Government take concrete actions to tackle the devastating impact on basic human rights of the country’s economic crisis.
UN human rights office calls for compassion following Rohingya deaths at sea
New York: The UN human rights office (OHCHR), is calling for compassion for people desperately seeking shelter, after 30 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar died on a boat in the Bay of Bengal that had spent nearly two months at sea.
Coronavirus-driven debt crisis threatens poor countries already at risk, says UN report
New York: As governments struggle to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, billions of people living in countries teetering on the brink of economic collapse are being threatened further by a looming debt crisis, according to a new UN report released on Thursday.
UN backs global action to end violence against women and girls amid COVID-19 crisis
New York: The United Nations is advocating immediate global action to end all forms of violence against women and girls in the midst of a global upsurge related to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic across the world.
UN chief calls for ceasefire as Yemen braces for possible COVID-19 outbreak
New York: Echoing his 23 March appeal to warring parties across the globe for an immediate ceasefire, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on those fighting in Yemen to end hostilities and ramp up efforts to counter a potential outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Enable ‘all out effort’ to counter COVID-19 in war-ravaged Syria, urges top UN envoy
New York: The top United Nations envoy in Syria called on Tuesday for an immediate country-wide truce, allowing citizens to save lives and tackle the common threat presented by the COVID-19 coronavirus.
UN programme to help spare millions from child marriage, extended to 2023
New York: Millions of girls have been able to avoid “an unwanted marriage and an unwelcome end to their childhood”, since the launch four years ago, of a joint UN agency programme, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
Use of religious beliefs to justify rights violations must be outlawed says UN expert
New York: Laws underpinned by religious conviction that discriminate against women and the LGBT+ community should be repealed, and gender-based violence carried out in the name of religion by non-State groups must be addressed, an independent UN expert said on Monday in a report presented to the Human Rights Council.
UN disarmament chief hopes upcoming conference will address current nuclear challenges
New York: With division and distrust rife among countries that possess nuclear arsenals, the UN disarmament chief is hopeful that the issue will be addressed during an upcoming conference on the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
UN chief welcomes South Sudan’s Unity government, lauds parties for ‘significant achievement’
New York: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed on Saturday the establishment of the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU) in South Sudan.
Escalating Burkina Faso violence brings wider Sahel displacement emergency into focus
New York: Deadly attacks on villages in Burkina Faso have forced 150,000 people to flee in just the last three weeks, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday, warning of a displacement emergency in the wider Sahel region.
With science ‘held back by a gender gap’, Guterres calls for more empowerment for women and girls
New York: Fewer than 30 per cent of the world’s scientific researchers are women: that’s just one of the statistics showing how many challenges remain for women and girls in the scientific field, as the world marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, on Tuesday.
‘This terrible situation cannot be allowed to continue’, UN chief tells world leaders at major Libya summit
New York: Speaking at a major, high-level summit on Libya, held in the German capital Berlin on Sunday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres evoked the disastrous humanitarian situation faced by thousands of civilians, as conflict in the North African country grows deeper and more destructive.
South Sudan famine threat: UN food security agency in ‘race against time’
New York: The World Food Programme (WFP) is warning against potential famine in South Sudan as hunger deepens due to drought, floods and an uncertain political future.