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Category: International
General Assembly President calls for halt to nuclear te...
The President of the UN General Assembly, Volkan Bozkir, on Wednesday called for an end to nuclear tests, as ambassadors gathered ...
COVID-19: ‘Unacceptable’ deals and delays, hampering li...
While 80 per cent of citizens in high and upper-middle income nations have had a dose of COVID-19 vaccine, that figure stands at j...
Drop coal or climate change will ‘wreak havoc’ across e...
Climate change will “wreak havoc” across the Australian economy if coal is not rapidly phased out, a senior UN official warned on ...
IOM concerned for migrants facing ‘dire condition’ at E...
Migrants are facing “dire conditions” at the European Union-Belarus border, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) war...
Critical gaps in refugee education, only 34 per cent at...
Two-thirds of refugee children might never get to secondary school, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday, as it called ...
Blue sky thinking: 5 things to know about air pollution
Around 90 per cent of people go through their daily lives breathing harmful polluted air, which has been described by the United N...
Yemen: UN agency helping stranded Ethiopian migrants to...
Amid intensifying conflict in Yemen, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is helping near...
‘Unprecedented funding gap’ for 7 million facing hunger...
The World Food Programme (WFP) is facing an unprecedented funding gap of $426 million for its operation in Ethiopia, as the UN age...
UN warns of ‘urgent imperative’ to avoid acute Afghan f...
With food aid running out, Afghanistan is facing the collapse of basic services, said UN agencies on Tuesday, releasing a flash ap...
Air quality improvements from COVID lockdowns confirmed
COVID-19 lockdowns brought rapid and “unprecedented” improvements in air quality in some parts of the world - but not enough to ha...
‘Major’ humanitarian crisis looms in Afghanistan, UNHCR...
A major humanitarian crisis is looming in Afghanistan, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, warned again on Friday, amid ongoing uncertai...
Lebanon: Almost three-quarters of the population living...
Poverty in Lebanon has drastically increased over the past year and now affects about 74% of the population, warned the UN Economi...