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COP28: UN says staggering $7 trillion spent every year ...

Nearly $7 trillion of public and private finance each year supports activities t...

Fighting engulfs over two-thirds of Myanmar, fuelling h...

Over half a million people have been displaced in Myanmar amid a surge in fighti...

Homicide a bigger killer than armed conflict and terror...

More people were killed due to homicide than armed conflict and terrorism combin...

Our voices and needs must be put first in climate talks...

Young climate advocates at COP28 in Dubai on Friday said they will not sit idly ...

Gaza humanitarian disaster heralds 'breakdown' of society

As intense Israeli bombardment of Gaza and fighting with Palestinian armed group...

Stories of courage and dedication: Humanitarians on Gaz...

Amid ongoing bombardment in the Gaza Strip, UN agencies and humanitarian partner...

Protect those on the move using deadly Darién crossing

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN refugee agency (UN...

Gaza fighting continues amid ‘apocalyptic’ conditions; ...

Two months to the day since Hamas’ terror attacks in Israel prompted a massive I...

World News in Brief: Russia’s LGBT ban condemned, unpre...

UN independent human rights experts on Thursday raised concerns about the “dange...

Guterres urges Security Council to act over Israel-Pale...

Invoking a rarely used article of the UN Charter, Secretary-General António Gute...

Gaza fighting further compromises aid amid near ‘apocal...

Two months to the day since Hamas’ terror attacks in Israel prompted a massive I...

Stories from the UN Archive: The man who defined genocide

The word “genocide” was first coined by Polish lawyer Raphäel Lemkin in 1944 in ...

Opera, glass blowing, poncho weaving and more: UNESCO c...

The UNESCO committee that protects so called Intangible Cultural Heritage met in...

COP28 is about action, not politics and point scoring, ...

UN climate chief Simon Stiell said on Wednesday that COP28 delegates are not in ...

UN's Türk urges probe into alleged sexual violence duri...

UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Wednesday condemned serious sexual violatio...

World News in Brief: Nigeria airstrikes condemned, supp...

Authorities in Nigeria must investigate a string of deadly airstrikes over the p...

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