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UN warns Covid-19 could wipe out gains in equality for women at work
The coronavirus pandemic could wipe out “the modest progress” made on gender equality at work in recent decades with women globally at greater risk of…
UN highlights urgent need to tackle impact of likely electric car battery production boom
Demand for raw materials used in the production of electric car batteries is set to soar, prompting the UN trade body, UNCTAD, to call for…
Global partners require $31 billion to speed up COVID-19 medicines for all
As part of the information campaign on COVID-19, the commander of the Bangladeshi medical contingent at the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic,…
UN chief: COVID-19 signals need for global approach to problems
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called on the world to strengthen multilateral cooperation, saying a global approach has been the key to addressing the…
Universal, inclusive education ‘non-negotiable’
Inclusive education should be a “non-negotiable” right for all children, the head of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said in a new…
Global ban needed on bogus ‘conversion therapy’, argues UN rights expert
“Conversion therapy” is built on the false premise that it can alter the sexual orientation of gender diverse people, and many more countries around the…
Human Rights Council calls on top UN rights official to take action on racist violence
The UN’s top rights official, Michelle Bachelet, is to spearhead efforts to address systemic racism against people of African descent by law enforcement agencies, the…
UN human rights chief calls for reparations for slavery, colonialism
The UN’s human rights chief urged countries Wednesday to confront the legacy of slavery and colonialism and to make amends for “centuries of violence and…
Children caught in conflict facing ‘brutality and fear while the world watches’
Boys and girls used and abused in armed conflict have had their childhoods replaced by “pain, brutality and fear while the world watches”, the UN…
Citing ‘weight of history’, senior UN officials of African descent issue call to ‘go beyond and do more’ to end racism
A group of more than twenty senior leaders in the UN, who report directly to Secretary-General António Guterres, and who are African or of African…
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