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Landmark terror finance resolution adopted
Friday, 29 March 2019, 9:58 am | UN News
The UN is hailing a new Security Council resolution adopted on Thursday as a landmark step in suppressing the funding of terror groups worldwide. More >>
Attempt to defy law over Golan Heights 'doomed to failure'
Friday, 29 March 2019, 9:57 am | UN News
Attempt to defy international law over Golan Heights sovereignty ‘doomed to failure’ Security Council hears More >>
As Syria conflict enters ninth year, crisis ‘far from over'
Thursday, 28 March 2019, 3:33 pm | UN News
As Syria conflict enters ninth year, humanitarian crisis ‘far from over’, Security Council hears More >>
Mali’s ‘self-defence’ groups must face justice
Wednesday, 27 March 2019, 10:42 am | UN News
Mali’s authorities have been urged by the UN to provide justice for the victims and survivors of attacks by so-called self-defence groups, responsible for horrific intercommunal violence in central Mali, after a weekend assault that claimed the ... More >>
‘Revved up climate action’ needed to prevent more Cyclones
Wednesday, 27 March 2019, 10:40 am | UN News
‘Revved up climate action’ needed to counter ‘prolonged’ and deadly storms like Cyclone Idai: Guterres More >>
Provocative actions and rhetoric destabilizing Middle East
Wednesday, 27 March 2019, 10:37 am | UN News
Provocative actions and inflammatory rhetoric’ destabilizing Middle East, warns top UN official More >>
Autonomous weapons that kill must be banned, insists UN
Tuesday, 26 March 2019, 9:59 am | UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged artificial intelligence (AI) experts meeting in Geneva on Monday to push ahead with their work to restrict the development of lethal autonomous weapons systems, or LAWS, as they are also known. More >>
‘Ticking bomb’ health warning over Cyclone Idai conditions
Tuesday, 26 March 2019, 9:56 am | UN News
Efforts are continuing to reach all victims of Cyclone Idai in southern Africa where a senior relief chief has warned of a “water, sanitation and hygiene ticking bomb”, as the scale of the emergency continues to unfold, and the official death toll rises. More >>
Gender equality essential for sustainable development
Saturday, 23 March 2019, 1:36 pm | UN News
Fundamentally linked to human development, gender justice requires ending inequality and redressing existing disparities between women and men, according to a high-level United Nations forum on the situation in Arab States. More >>
Guterres announces UN plan to safeguard religious sites
Saturday, 23 March 2019, 1:29 pm | UN News
'Mosques should be safe havens, not sites of terror’, says Guterres announcing UN plan to help safeguard religious sites More >>
UN conference agrees better ways for sustainable development
Saturday, 23 March 2019, 1:27 pm | UN News
The Second High-Level UN Conference on South-South Cooperation, known as BAPA+40 , concluded on Friday in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a political declaration agreed by more than 160 Member States renewing the global commitment in the promotion and ... More >>
UN chief calls for ‘far greater support’ for Cyclone Idai
Saturday, 23 March 2019, 1:21 pm | UN News
The world needs to step up support for the survivors of Tropical Cyclone Idai, the UN Secretary-General said on Friday, in a strong personal appeal as relief workers rush to provide aid to people stranded across the storm countries in southern Africa. More >>
Education critical to ensure future of forests
Friday, 22 March 2019, 10:35 am | UN News
The UN drew attention to the vital role that forests play in addressing some of the world’s greatest environmental challenges on Thursday, and the importance of tackling the issues that threaten them, such as deforestation, and land degradation. More >>
Service and Sacrifice: Malaysian peacekeepers in Lebanon
Friday, 22 March 2019, 9:23 am | UN News
Service and Sacrifice: Malaysian peacekeepers in Lebanon proud to serve their homeland and the United Nations More >>
‘Massive and protracted’ humanitarian crisis in DR Congo
Friday, 22 March 2019, 9:21 am | UN News
‘Massive and protracted’ humanitarian crisis in DR Congo can be ‘beaten back’ if donors step up More >>
Marking international day, UN experts call to end racism
Friday, 22 March 2019, 9:19 am | UN News
Marking international day, UN experts call for urgent action to end racial discrimination, in wake of New Zealand anti-Muslim attack More >>
Idai disaster: Stranded victims still need rescue
Friday, 22 March 2019, 9:17 am | UN News
Idai disaster: Stranded victims still need rescue from heavy rains as UN scales up response More >>
Venezuela: ‘A worrying destabilizing factor in the region’
Thursday, 21 March 2019, 3:23 pm | UN News
Venezuela: ‘A worrying destabilizing factor in the region’, Bachelet tells Human Rights Council More >>
‘Growing alarm’ over Fall Armyworm advance across Asia
Thursday, 21 March 2019, 2:23 pm | UN News
The Fall Armyworm pest is continuing to sweep across the globe, having moved eastwards from their native Americas, onto Africa, before arriving in Asia only last summer, where they now threaten to cost farmers from India to Thailand, billions of dollars ... More >>
Global South cooperation ‘vital’ to climate change fight
Thursday, 21 March 2019, 9:17 am | UN News
South-South cooperation is key to the world’s sustainable development and the fight against global warming said the United Nations Secretary-General on Wednesday, as the opening session of the Second UN Conference on South-South Cooperation got underway ... More >>
