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Over 230 million women and girls subjected to female ge...

More than 230 million girls and women alive today have been subjected to female ...

International Women’s Day: UN chief launches plan to ta...

The UN chief on Friday launched a plan to boost empowerment of women and girls a...

Gaza: Rafah ground assault would increase risk of atroc...

Any assault by Israeli forces on the densely populated city of Rafah where 1.5 m...

Gaza: Starvation claims more young lives as UN advocate...

Days from the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan and with no ceasefire agree...

UN chief appeals for Sudan ceasefire, now: ‘Values of R...

The UN Secretary-General on Thursday called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan ...

Afghanistan’s economy has ‘basically collapsed’: UNDP

The Afghan economy and especially regions affected by the devastating earthquake...

World News in Brief, deadliest year for migrants, Syria...

The UN migration agency (IOM) announced on Wednesday that last year was the dead...

UN envoy calls again for removal of restrictions on Afg...

The UN envoy for Afghanistan on Wednesday repeated her call for the Taliban to r...

‘They destroyed us’: North Gazans flee homes in search ...

Life is rapidly being choked out of northern Gaza. After enduring nearly five mo...

11 months into Sudan war, ‘world’s worst hunger crisis’...

Nearly 11 months since rival generals declared war in Sudan, UN humanitarians wa...

Allow more aid into Gaza now, pleads UN health agency c...

Much more lifesaving humanitarian aid must be allowed into Gaza where one in six...

Path to low-carbon construction is clear as mud

The use of building materials such as cement and steel create a massive carbon f...

Haiti: UN officials say ‘we are running out of time’ am...

Amid a mass prison breakout, expanding gang violence and rising hunger, the UN h...

Women in parliament: Slow progress towards equal repres...

Progress on women’s representation in national legislatures was “slow and mixed”...

Drugs online: UN-backed body offers solutions to counte...

Drug dealers have continued to use cutting-edge digital technology, social media...

World News in Brief: Climate change in the countryside,...

Climate change is disproportionately affecting the incomes of rural women, the p...

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