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UN chief’s Youth Day message: People of all ages need to ‘join forces’ for a better world
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UN chief’s Youth Day message: People of all ages need to ‘join forces’ for a better world

International Youth Day celebrates “the power of partnerships across generations,” the UN chief said in his message for the day.

12 August 2022 · 3 min read

Children affected by conflict cannot wait for their education
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Children affected by conflict cannot wait for their education

From Ethiopia to Chad and Palestine, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the UN’s fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, is helping millions of boys and girls affected by conflict…

11 August 2022 · 4 min read

Indigenous women’s work to preserve traditional knowledge celebrated on International Day
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Indigenous women’s work to preserve traditional knowledge celebrated on International Day

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for amplifying the voices of Indigenous women, which is critical to achieving a just future for all people.  

9 August 2022 · 4 min read

Somalia: ‘We cannot wait for famine to be declared; we must act now’
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Africa

Somalia: ‘We cannot wait for famine to be declared; we must act now’

Rising acute food insecurity in Somalia has caused more than 900,000 people to flee their homes in search of humanitarian assistance since January last year, the Food and Agriculture Organization…

5 August 2022 · 3 min read

Major fall in global food prices for July, but future supply worries remain
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Major fall in global food prices for July, but future supply worries remain

Food prices dropped significantly in July, marking the fifth consecutive monthly decline since hitting record highs earlier in the year in the wake of the war in Ukraine, the Food…

5 August 2022 · 4 min read

Unprecedented global challenges are ‘not insurmountable’ – UN chief
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Unprecedented global challenges are ‘not insurmountable’ – UN chief

Nearly a year ago, the UN chief released his report, Our Common Agenda (OCA), a blueprint for global cooperation moving forward, and reinvigorated multilateralism. On Thursday, he updated the General…

4 August 2022 · 5 min read

New ECOSOC President aims to ease crises which have ‘engulfed our societies’
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New ECOSOC President aims to ease crises which have ‘engulfed our societies’

Ambassador Lachezara Stoeva , New ECOSOC President, said in her opening statement that she was “honoured and humbled” to have been elected to lead one of the principal organs of the UN

27 July 2022 · 4 min read

Guterres condemns missile strikes in Ukranian Black Sea port of Odesa
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Guterres condemns missile strikes in the port of Odesa

The UN Secretary-General 'unequivocally' condemned the reported strikes in the port of Odesa this Saturday.

24 July 2022 · 2 min read

Mega-drought, glacier melt, and deforestation plague Latin America and the Caribbean
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Environment

Mega-drought, glacier melt, and deforestation plague Latin America and the Caribbean

From the Amazon to the Andes and the snowy depths of Patagonia, extreme weather and climate change are causing mega-drought, extreme rainfall, deforestation and glacier melt across the Latin America…

22 July 2022 · 4 min read