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LONDON (Reuters) – The number of children globally who died before their fifth birthday dropped to a record low of 4.9 million in 2022, but that still represents one death every six seconds, according to new United…
The UN special rapporteur (UNSR) on freedom of expression urges the Philippine government to eliminate an anticommunist task force, known as National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac), which is accused of jeopardizing the…
NEW YORK (Reuters) -United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres vowed on Sunday to hold to account “any U.N. employee involved in acts of terror” after allegations that some refugee agency staffers were involved in the Oct. 7 Hamas…
The Philippines has secured a position on the board of the historic Loss and Damage Fund (LDF), a financial mechanism established under the auspices of the United Nations to aid vulnerable nations in managing the rising costs…
Deadly floods in the Horn of Africa. Summer wildfires that ravaged Canadian forests. Global temperature records unprecedented in the history of humanity. Environmental activists say there’s no doubt anymore that urgent collective action is needed to preserve…
Bangkok, Thailand — Dozens of people in central Myanmar were killed in air strikes Tuesday, according to local media reports and a witness contacted by AFP, as the United Nations urged the military to end its “campaign…
The annual International Day of Happiness (March 20) saw the release of World Happiness Report (WHR) 2023 recently. In this 10th WHR since the Day was established by the United Nations in 2012, Finland, scoring 7.80 on…
Subjectivity in survey data cannot be avoided. The simple act of asking a sample of people certain questions, and recording their subjective answers, entails faith that the data will be useful to you. Surveys of voters’ intentions…
GENEVA, Switzerland — The United Nations rights chief on Saturday warned that recent advances in artificial intelligence or AI posed a grave threat to human rights and called for safeguards to prevent violations. This week, more than…
KAHRAMANMARAS/ANTAKYA, Turkey – A teenage girl was pulled alive from the rubble in Turkey on Thursday more than 10 days after a devastating earthquake hit the region, but such rescues have become increasingly rare, leaving anger to…
Yesterday’s front page included a report on teen births increasingly involving older men, with 59 percent of registered adolescent births fathered by a man older than 20 years old, according to Dr. Leila Joudane, United Nations Population…
GENEVA — Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie will quit her role as a special envoy for the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) but will remain a humanitarian activist, the United Nations said on Friday. Jolie, who has been on…
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