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Ghana peacekeeper named UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year
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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 from Secretary-General António Guterres during a…

22 May 2023 · 3 min read

Biodiversity Day: Protecting humanity’s ‘life-support system’
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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 we eat, to the energy that…

22 May 2023 · 4 min read

Horn of Africa: Over 7 million children under the age of 5 remain malnourished
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Horn of Africa: Over 7 million children under the age of 5 remain malnourished

More than seven million children under the age of five remain malnourished and in need of urgent nutrition aid, and over 1.9 million boys and girls* are at risk of dying from severe malnutrition. As the…

22 May 2023 · 3 min read

El Salvador: Renewed state of emergency undermines right to fair trial
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El Salvador: Renewed state of emergency undermines right to fair trial

the UN Human Rights Council said on Monday.  The state of emergency was first approved in March 2022, and initially for a month, but has been renewed ever since, generating…

22 May 2023 · 3 min read

G7 nations should show global leadership and solidarity
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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

21 May 2023 · 4 min read

UN rights experts ‘deeply alarmed’ at continuing executions of Iran protesters
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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 view of the reported involvement of…

19 May 2023 · 3 min read

Survey reveals war’s ‘immense’ mental health toll on Ukrainian refugee mothers in Poland
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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 had considered getting, or had already…

19 May 2023 · 4 min read

Sudan emergency: One million now displaced in ongoing conflict
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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 than 700 people had been killed…

19 May 2023 · 2 min read

Malawi: Over 500,000 children at risk of malnutrition, UNICEF warns
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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 insecurity, compounded by other challenges such…

19 May 2023 · 2 min read

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

18 May 2023 · 3 min read