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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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‘Essential lessons’ from HIV fight can help coronavirus response, says UNAIDS

HIV fight - The study by UNAIDS, the UN agency working to stamp out HIV and AIDS, outlines how the world can leverage and...

Greece: compounds overcrowding and COVID-19 challenges in refugee camp

Greece: Devasting fire compounds overcrowding and COVID-19 challenges in refugee camp Within a short span of time, three separate fires broke out at the Moria...

Build a better future with blue skies for all, UN urges

The first International Day of Clean Air for blue skies is being commemorated around the world, on Monday, following the recognition by the United Nations General Assembly of the importance of clean air for the health and day-to-day lives of people. 

Quiet corridors but a full programme at virtual UNGA75: five things you need to know

The 75th UN General Assembly (UNGA) session, begins on 15 September and this year, due to the ongoing global pandemic, it will be unlike any other in the organization’s three quarters of a century of existence. 

‘Wisdom’ of Guatemala’s indigenous people needed for sustainable development: a UN Resident Coordinator blog

“Now more than ever, we must heed the wisdom of indigenous peoples. This wisdom calls upon us to care for the earth so that...

Human rights are the ‘means by which governments can successfully beat pandemics’, says UNAIDS chief

UNAIDS - Interruptions of HIV services, harassment, abuse, arrests, deaths and a failure to respect human rights in the early responses to the pandemic...

Togo overcomes ‘sleeping sickness’ as a public health problem

The West African nation of Togo has eliminated human African trypanosomiasis or “sleeping sickness” as a public health problem, becoming the first in the continent to achieve the milestone, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has said. 

COVID-19: UN urges ramping up social protection

The socio-economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted UN agencies on Wednesday to call on countries to increase social protection programmes to protect those most at risk. 

UNICEF works to ease the suffering of children in Beirut blast

Following a deadly explosion earlier this month, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has delivered some 67 tons of critical humanitarian supplies to affected children and families in Beirut.

COVID-19: African countries urged to promote a safe return to school

return to school - The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF urged governments on the continent to promote a safe return to the classroom...
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