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More than half of all children in Ukraine have been displaced from their homes since Russia launched its full-scale invasion on February 24, the United Nations said Thursday.
The United Nations will have multiple meetings this week about Russia’s war in Ukraine, though it is unclear if they will lead to the adoption of an official text, diplomats said.
After two years the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet over and could be prolonged further due to ‘scandalously unequal’ vaccine distribution, the UN secretary-general warned on Wednesday.
The United Nations needs safe passage to deliver humanitarian aid to conflict zones in Ukraine, a senior official with the organization told the Security Council on Monday.
The UN refugee agency said that 1 million people have now fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion less than a week ago, an exodus without precedent in this century for its speed.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned Russia’s move to recognize two eastern Ukrainian separatist regions as independent on Monday as a violation of Kyiv’s sovereignty.
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned Monday it was time to defuse tensions between Russia and the West over the Ukraine crisis, saying he was deeply worried about the threat of conflict.
A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday sentenced 51 people to death, several in absentia, in a mass trial over the 2017 murder of two UN experts in a troubled central region.
UN chief Antonio Guterres told the all-virtual Davos forum on Monday that the world must vaccinate everybody against COVID-19 to ensure a way out of the pandemic.
Representatives of Myanmar’s junta are expected to challenge the jurisdiction of the World Court to hear allegations the country committed genocide against its Rohingya minority in a fresh round of hearings from February 21, reports Reuters on Friday citing the attorney general of the Gambia, which brought the case.
Afghanistan’s deep economic crisis threatens to raise the ‘risk of extremism’ in the region, a senior UN official warned on Wednesday.
Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, says he will sell $6 billion worth of Tesla stock and donate the proceeds to the United Nations food agency if it could show how the money would solve world hunger.
Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies agreed on a final statement on Sunday that urged meaningful and effective action to limit global warming but offered few concrete commitments and disappointed climate activists.
Rafid Ariyan, a young Bangladeshi designer, has won a ‘special honor’ in the IGF 2021 Award - My Internet of the Future Competition organized by the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and Poland government.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address a press conference this afternoon to brief the media about her recently-concluded visit to the United States to attend the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home from Washington DC via Helsinki wrapping up her USA visit to attend the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and other high level side events.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is now in Washington DC, inaugurated the newly constructed ‘Bangladesh House’ at Maryland in the USA, reports BSS.
The United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres has highly appreciated the development miracle of Bangladesh under the dynamic and visionary leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres reprimanded the world on Tuesday for the inequitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, describing it as an ‘obscenity and giving the globe an ‘F in Ethics’.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laid special emphasis on forming a Women Leaders’ Network as it can act as a force to ensure gender equality.
