UN conference concludes with ‘historic’ deal to protect a third of the world’s biodiversity The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework also aims to cut food waste in half. COP15 was originally set to be held Africa Tuesday, 20 December 2022 08:31
UN rights chief reports on intensified ‘climate of oppression’ in Nicaragua Addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Mr. Türk reported that the number of people arbitrarily detained - either Africa Friday, 16 December 2022 08:10
UN chief ‘deeply saddened’ by deaths amid floods in DR Congo Floods in the capital, Kinshasa, and some provinces have destroyed homes and farmland, as well as schools and other public Africa Thursday, 15 December 2022 08:01
Global trade growth turns negative after record year: UNCTAD That’s according to UN trade and development agency, UNCTAD, whose analysts said that global growth “turned negative” during the second Africa Thursday, 15 December 2022 07:52
‘Dramatically’ evolving conflict highlights importance of multilateralism, Security Council hears Pointing to the Our Common Agenda report – a blueprint for global cooperation and reinvigorated multilateralism – he attested that Africa Thursday, 15 December 2022 07:45
Iran removed from UN Commission on the Status of Women The development comes in the wake of the country’s brutal crackdown on protests calling for justice for Mahsa Amini, the Africa Thursday, 15 December 2022 07:32
Ukraine: Winter’s downward spiral documented by UN agencies The findings revealed that one in every four of the 5,200 respondents had reduced or stopped agricultural production because Africa Thursday, 15 December 2022 07:24
UN chief urges governments and business to step up action to protect nature “Ecosystems have become playthings of profit. Human activities are laying waste to once-thriving forests, jungles, farmland, oceans, rivers, seas and Africa Thursday, 08 December 2022 11:00
Ukraine’s suffering must not become new normal, declares UN rights chief Speaking in the capital, Kyiv, after an official four-day visit to the country, Volker Türk said that the scale of Africa Thursday, 08 December 2022 10:48