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

According to WMO, weather, climate and water-related hazards caused close to 12,000 disasters between 1970 and 2021. Developing countries were hit hardest, seeing nine...

World must be ready to respond to next pandemic: WHO chief

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was delivering his report to the 76th World Health Assembly, the UN agency’s decision-making body, which is meeting this...

Ghana peacekeeper named UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year

Captain Cecilia Erzuah, 32, who has served in Abyei since March last year, as the Commander of the Ghana Engagement Platoon, will receive the award...

Biodiversity Day: Protecting humanity’s ‘life-support system’

“On the International Day for Biological Diversity, we reflect on our relationship with humanity’s life-support system, from the air we breathe and the food...

G7 nations should show global leadership and solidarity says Guterres

The world is counting on the leadership and solidarity of the G7 nations, the U.N. chief said Sunday, speaking to journalists in Hiroshima

Survey reveals war’s ‘immense’ mental health toll on Ukrainian refugee mothers in Poland

The finding is the result of a survey conducted by the UNICEF Refugee Response Office in Poland, which also revealed that 53 per cent...

Malawi: Over 500,000 children at risk of malnutrition, UNICEF warns

Although the southern African country has made recent progress in reducing chronic malnutrition, the agency said these gains have been threatened by acute food...

Sudan emergency: One million now displaced in ongoing conflict

A wave of deadly attacks reportedly targeted West Darfur’s capital, El-Geneina, in recent days, while the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said that more...

UN rights experts ‘deeply alarmed’ at continuing executions of Iran protesters

The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, said in a statement that the executions on Friday of Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashemi and Saeed Yaghoubi, were “profoundly concerning in...

Invasion of Ukraine – civilians in an ‘unbearable routine’ of Russian attack

Nearly 15 months after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, civilians are forced to live through an “unbearable routine”, amidst alarming levels of destruction
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