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NewsU.N. meeting in Doha seeks to engage with the Taliban on human rights
Doha/New York, May 1 – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is leading a two-day meeting in Doha to seek ways to engage with the Taliban on ...
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NewsUPDATE: India’s population will reach 1.429 billion, the world’s largest, with 40 per cent under 25
New York, April 24 – India will get the title as the world’s most populous nation when its population grows to 1.429 billion by mid-2023 ...
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NewsEnd global hunger with effective public-private-donor partnerships, the Rockefeller Foundation says
New York, April 11 – Current efforts fighting the food crisis to relieve hunger worldwide are marred by funding gaps and lack of coordination, the ...
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NewsU.N. strongly condemns Taliban’s ban on Afghan women
Kabul/New York, April 5 – The United Nations has condemned in the strongest terms and rejected the decision by Taliban authorities to ban Afghan women ...
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NewsUPDATE: U.N. Water Conference adopts action plan to protect water as common good
New York, March 24 – Dubbed as a once-in-a-generation international conference, the U.N. 2023 Water Conference closed with the adoption of a Water Action Plan, ...
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NewsGlobal water shortage gains top headlines after 46 years
New York, March 21 – A United Nations-led conference will tackle the global water crisis as billions of people still lack access to safe water ...
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ClimateDeveloping countries have visionary leaders to fight climate change, U.N. official says
New York, March 20 – Decisive political decisions are needed now in the global fight against climate change and developing countries can provide leaders to ...
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NewsBottled Water Masks World’s Failure to Supply Safe Water for All, Can Slow Sustainable Development: UN
Needed to provide safe water to roughly 2 billion people without it: an annual investment less than half the US$ 270 billion now spent each ...
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NewsNew global survey shows rising worries about water shortage
Note: Amongst other findings, the research shows 58 per cent of people are seriously concerned about fresh water shortages and 30 percent say they have ...
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NewsNEWS FEATURE: Governments, business and survivors call for tech solutions to tackle violence against women
New York, March 13 – Technology is a double-edged sword and more solutions are needed to address violence and harassment against women in the digital ...
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NewsUPDATE: Least Developed Countries receive strong support to achieve Sustainable Development Goals
Doha/New York, March 9 – The U.N. conference on the Least Developed Countries ended with member states committing to measures to deliver on the Doha ...
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Human RightsRussian invasion causes massive human rights violations in Ukraine, U.N. says
Geneva/New York, February 27 – The Russian war in Ukraine has “triggered the most massive violations of human rights we are living today,” U.N. Secretary-General ...
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