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Category: International
UN rights office urges Colombia to reform policing of p...
Colombia must urgently reform how it polices protests in the wake of demonstrations earlier this year in which several people were...
COVID-19 leads to over 50 million more hungry people in...
COVID-19 led to rising food insecurity for around 54 million people living in the vast Asia-Pacific region during 2020, according ...
Venezuela violated jurist’s rights, UN Human Rights Com...
Venezuela violated a jurist’s right to be tried by an independent tribunal and his right to the presumption of innocence, the UN H...
COVID-19 cases and deaths in the Americas triple in 202...
Compared to the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 was “undoubtedly worse” for the Americas, where infections and deaths tr...
Remember the Rohingya ‘forced to run for their lives’...
The world must not forget the roughly one million Rohingya from Myanmar “forced to run for their lives from the military’s genocid...
UN steps up action on sexual misconduct in wake of CAR ...
The UN continues to take steps to address allegations of sexual misconduct by peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR) i...
Chief UN prosecutor looks forward to achieving justice ...
Serge Brammertz, Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals – the judicial body that assumed the re...
38℃ record Arctic temperature confirmed, others likely ...
A new and disturbing high temperature record for the Arctic of 38 degrees Celsius, or just over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, was confir...
COVID cases surging in Africa at fastest rate this year...
An 83 per cent surge in COVID-19 cases during the past week in Africa, driven by the Delta and Omicron variants, is causing fewer ...
‘Restraint, de-escalation and dialogue’ needed to stem ...
Yemen is teetering on a new “fragmented and bloody” chapter of war as military escalation and conflict escalates, Special Envoy Ha...
Afghanistan: Humanitarian crisis threatens basic human ...
Respect for fundamental rights and freedoms by the de facto authorities in Afghanistan is critical to ensuring stability in the co...
UNFPA: $835 million needed for ‘lifesaving’ reproductiv...
Life-saving sexual and reproductive health services are more vital than ever, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) said on Monday, launc...