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Menstrual Hygiene Day: Putting an end to period poverty

Menstrual Hygiene Day: Putting an end to period poverty

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Period poverty, or the inability to afford menstrual products, is a serious issue especially in developing countries, an issue menstruating girls and women grapple...
Trafficking in the Sahel: Killer cough syrup and fake medicine

Trafficking in the Sahel: Killer cough syrup and fake medicine

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This feature, which focuses on the illegal trade in substandard and fake medicines, is part of a UN News series exploring the fight against...
Weather experts predict ‘near normal’ season, with 5 to 9 potential hurricanes

Weather experts predict ‘near normal’ season, with 5 to 9 potential...

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The US National Hurricane Center acts as WMO’s Regional Specialized Meteorological hub, based in Miami, Florida. There is a 40 per cent chance of a...
Ukraine: UN delivers aid to millions, as civilian suffering continues

Ukraine: UN delivers aid to millions, as civilian suffering continues

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Humanitarians reached 5.4 million people in Ukraine with desperately needed aid by April this year, including cash assistance, food, health services, and medicines, the...
Arrest of top Rwandan genocide fugitive shows ‘justice will be done’

Arrest of top Rwandan genocide fugitive shows ‘justice will be done’

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Fulgence Kayishema is alleged to have orchestrated the killing of approximately 2,000 Tutsi refugees at Nyange Catholic Church during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda,...
UN peacekeepers ‘a beacon of hope and protection’: Guterres

UN peacekeepers ‘a beacon of hope and protection’: Guterres

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He said the men and women that serve, from 125 countries, across 12 operations, were working to support security, stability and the rule of...
UN representative alarmed by sexual violence against women and girls in DRC

UN representative alarmed by sexual violence against women and girls in...

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“Allegations of grave cases of sexual violence against civilians, including children, in particular affecting IDPs fleeing conflict in the eastern DRC, is a matter...
Security Council urged to step up on financing for AU peace operations

Security Council urged to step up on financing for AU peace...

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Briefing ambassadors on Africa Day, Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo presented the latest UN report on securing predictable, sustainable and flexible resources for AU-led peace support...
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Security Council urged to step up on financing for AU peace operations

Briefing ambassadors on Africa Day, Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo presented the latest UN report on securing predictable, sustainable and flexible resources for AU-led peace support...

Green light for global greenhouse gas tracking network

The landmark decision comes as heat-trapping greenhouse gas concentrations are at record levels – “higher than at any time over the last 800,000 years”,...

African free trade area could spur sustainable growth: UN chief

Mr. Guterres was speaking on the final day of the annual Africa Dialogue Series in New York, where the focus this year was on...

UN and partners seek $7 billion to prevent catastrophe in the Horn of Africa

More than 43 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia continue to suffer through one of the worst droughts in recent history, caused by...

Guterres: ‘We can turn the tide’ towards ending colonialism

“Our shared goal is to give greater priority to the decolonization agenda and spur accelerated action,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Special Committee...

Türk appeals to Sudan’s warring generals; calls out ‘dangerous anti-rights tendencies’ worldwide

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk appealed to the leaders of the Sudanese Armed Forces and of the Rapid Support Forces, locked...

‘No time to spare’: Israel-Palestine ceasefire holds, but hunger, tensions mount

“There is no time to spare,” said Tor Wennesland, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. “We must take action, not only...

UNESCO names 18 new Global Geoparks

 Brazil: Caçapava Geopark ...

Unprecedented joint call to shield children on the move from violence

With more than 42 million children displaced worldwide and increasing exposure to multiple forms of violence, the Office of the Special Representative on Violence...

Extreme weather caused two million deaths, cost $4 trillion over last 50 years

Over two million deaths and $4.3 trillion in economic losses; that’s the impact of a half-century of extreme weather events turbo-charged
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