Tag: UN

The United States has announced the immediate suspension of all trade engagement with Myanmar until the return of a democratically elected government. The move comes a day after US President, Joe ...

United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres has announced that the agency has begun negotiations with Beijing for a visit “without restrictions” to Xinjiang, to see how the Uighur minority is being treated. ...

Russia and China have called for a United Nations Security Council summit over a “heightened global political turbulence”.  The foreign ministers of both countries condemned Western sanctions against them and ...

An analysis of UN data has revealed that more than half of all children who turn 10 this year will reach their milestone birthday without being able to read a ...

The United Nations has reported that over 200 people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo since January. It added that an estimated 40,000 people have also been ...

China has reported Australia to the UN expressing “deep concern” over the Australian government’s operation of offshore detention centres. Beijing has also called for the sites to be closed immediately. ...

Amnesty International has reported that the Myanmar military is carrying out "premeditated" attacks on peaceful protesters. These attacks, according to the human rights organisation, include "extrajudicial executions" and indiscriminately spraying ...

Nigerian actress and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) regional ambassador for West and Central Africa, Stephanie Linus Okere has released an advocacy video, 'Hey Woman' today, as part of the ...

UN Secretary-General, António Guterres has admonished that humanity is waging a “senseless and suicidal” war on nature that is causing human suffering and enormous economic losses while accelerating the destruction ...

The Special Envoy to the UN Secretary-General for the Food Systems Summit 2021, Agnes Kalibata has warned that people living in poverty around the world are in danger of food ...