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UN AIDS agency greatly encouraged by ‘functional cure'
Wednesday, 6 March 2019, 9:34 am | UN News
UN’s AIDS agency ‘greatly encouraged’ by ‘functionally cured’ patient breakthrough More >>
UN regrets closure of Burundi office following pressure
Wednesday, 6 March 2019, 9:33 am | UN News
UN human rights chief regrets closure of Burundi office following Government pressure More >>
Rights council discuss air pollution, the ‘silent killer’
Tuesday, 5 March 2019, 9:52 am | UN News
Air pollution, the ‘silent killer’ that claims seven million lives a year: rights council hears More >>
93 million children with disabilities need to be heard
Tuesday, 5 March 2019, 9:51 am | UN News
93 million children with disabilities ‘among the most likely to be left behind’: UN rights chief More >>
Once lost, hearing doesn’t come back: WHO warning
Monday, 4 March 2019, 9:32 am | UN News
'Once lost , hearing doesn’t come back’: World Health Organization warns on World Hearing Day More >>
New UN Syrian envoy pledges to work towards peace
Friday, 1 March 2019, 3:05 pm | UN News
New UN Syrian envoy pledges to work ‘impartially and diligently’ towards peace More >>
Gaza probe finds ‘reasonable grounds’ of rights violations
Friday, 1 March 2019, 10:16 am | UN News
Gaza probe finds ‘reasonable grounds’ Israeli forces committed international human rights violations More >>
Marking Sir Brian Urquhart’s 100th birthday
Friday, 1 March 2019, 9:55 am | UN News
Marking Sir Brian Urquhart’s 100th birthday, UN honours life-long servant of ‘we the peoples’ More >>
‘I don’t like to give up': veteran UN envoy speaks
Friday, 1 March 2019, 9:52 am | UN News
‘I don’t like to give up': veteran UN envoy reveals how two decades of quiet diplomacy gave birth to North Macedonia More >>
Comprehensively include migrants in Sustainable Development
Thursday, 28 February 2019, 10:25 am | UN News
‘Comprehensively include migrants’ or Sustainable Development won’t happen: General Assembly President More >>
Keep Africa’s guns from firing in the first place, UN urges
Thursday, 28 February 2019, 9:47 am | UN News
Arms control, the illegal exploitation of natural resources, and the United Nations’ role in “silencing the guns in Africa” were the focus of a Security Council’s debate on Wednesday, aimed at conflict prevention across the continent. More >>
Yemen: ‘A great first step’ UN declares after grain silo
Thursday, 28 February 2019, 9:45 am | UN News
Yemen: ‘A great first step’ UN declares as aid team accesses grain silo which can feed millions More >>
Protracted crisis in Venezuela leads to ‘alarming tensions'
Wednesday, 27 February 2019, 4:13 pm | UN News
The “protracted crisis” in Venezuela has led to an “alarming escalation of tensions”, Rosemary DiCarlo , the UN’s political and peacebuilding chief, told the UN Security Council on Tuesday. More >>
With Yemen ‘one step away from famine’, donor pledge $1.6B
Wednesday, 27 February 2019, 9:26 am | UN News
Donors have pledged $2.6 billion to provide urgently needed support to millions of Yemeni civilians facing an “overwhelming humanitarian calamity” after nearly four years of brutal war, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday. More >>
Make progress or risk redundancy, UN warns disarmament body
Tuesday, 26 February 2019, 10:06 am | UN News
A new global vision for arms control is needed and States must not “sleepwalk” into a new nuclear arms race, the UN Secretary-General said on Monday. More >>
Youth, migrants and refugees boost hope for rights
Tuesday, 26 February 2019, 9:10 am | UN News
Youth, indigenous peoples, migrants and refugees boost hope for human rights More >>
UN rights office urges Egypt to halt death row executions
Sunday, 24 February 2019, 10:02 am | UN News
Fifteen death row inmates have been executed in Egypt so far this month despite claims from many that they were tortured to secure a confession, the UN human rights office, OHCHR , said on Friday. More >>
Health spending rising faster than rest of global economy
Friday, 22 February 2019, 9:59 am | UN News
Spending on health is outpacing the rest of the global economy, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. More >>
South Sudan: UN outraged at human rights violations
Thursday, 21 February 2019, 3:18 pm | UN News
South Sudan: ‘Outraged’ UN experts say ongoing widespread human rights violations may amount to war crimes More >>
Prospect of lasting peace ‘fading by the day’ in Gaza - UN
Thursday, 21 February 2019, 9:33 am | UN News
The spectres of violence and radicalism in the Occupied Palestinian Territory are growing, and the prospect of sustainable peace is fading by the day, a senior UN envoy in the region told the Security Council on Wednesday. More >>
